A Mississippi wedding venue rejected an interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’

Washington Post via MSN ^ | 9/3/19 | Allyson Chiu

[DoodleDawg]

I'd say "I smell a rat" except that apparently the venue has removed their social media presence so it seems to be true. But if that's their deeply held beliefs then regardless how repugnant they may seem to people then they should have a right to adhere to them in the running of their business.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Does the Nation of Islam receive the same tenacious coverage from our agitprop generating media?

[JudyinCanada]

Homosexuality is clearly a sin in Christendom, but I don’t recall anything about skin colour being “sinful”. I think they’re just using the term “Christian belief” instead of what it really is....that they just aren’t in favour.

[Texas Eagle]

Riiiiiight. I smell a setup.

[Steely Tom]

I find this story as difficult to swallow as this potage au gelee.

[hinckley buzzard]

Ditto. If this is true, it will run into public accommodations law in short order. Christian teaching does not recognize race, so conscience is no excuse.

[CharlesOConnell]

In an interracial marriage for 38 years, I endorse everyone’s right to find righteousness in their own understanding. My wife lost her job because her Catholic school principle was prejudiced, but my wife never plays the race card. Those who do are just using it as a pretext. Progressives never protest against Planned Parenthood locating population control outlets in minority areas. Transparent hypocrisy.

[marktwain]

The woman later said she discovered she was wrong about Christianity forbidding interracial marriage, and she apologized, saying she was wrong.

[DoodleDawg]

Does the Nation of Islam receive the same tenacious coverage from our agitprop generating media?

I don't know. Do Muslim venues deny service to interracial couples?

[_longranger81]

As I read the story, two good things: 1) the offended party went and talked to the owner and asked them to explain their position, not to an attorney to destroy them. 2) the owner, as. result, reexamined their position, and found that, as I thought, there is no Biblical or Christian induction against interracial marriage. It is something that a lot of people have a strong visceral reaction to, but that doesn’t rise to religious belief, and those things do change over time and with experience.

[Kriggerel]

Yeah...
All the Bible study I did as a kid, and in my teens, and I seem to have missed the scripture that stated: “Thou Shalt Not Miscegenate.”

[DoodleDawg]

The woman later said she discovered she was wrong about Christianity forbidding interracial marriage, and she apologized, saying she was wrong.

I was suspicious of the person making the complaint thinking the "...my Christian race, I mean my Christian belief" thing was a leeettle too convenient. But if the venue owner did, in fact, say that then I'll be just as suspicious of her apology and sudden "seen the light" claim as being just a leeetle too convenient as well.

[Berosus]

How OLD is that news story? Here in present-day Kentucky, when a black and white couple get married, the rest of us barely even notice. As for the marriage being un-Christian, I would point to Numbers 12:1, where Moses married a “Kushite” (read: black) woman, and Aaron and Miriam used that as a excuse to challenge his authority. Because God backed Moses, while not saying a word about the marriage, it’s safe to say that God is neither for nor against interracial marriage. Finally, a case can be made that the woman in the Song of Solomon story was a black Egyptian.

[DoodleDawg]

...the offended party went and talked to the owner and asked them to explain their position, not to an attorney to destroy them.

Went to the owner, then went to the press. That may mean the death of the wedding venue as well.

[bert]

It could be because there were no blacks in Samaria or Judea

[momincombatboots]

I agree. Paid provocateurs.

[BipolarBob]

Are you certain about that?

[a fool in paradise]

Nation of Islam bigots probably do.

[a fool in paradise]

Haven’t activists told us that Moses was black? So how is that an interracial marriage?

[Tench_Coxe]

I suspect the Post is indirectly linking this to the Colorado baker, the Oregon couple, etc. To try and head off push back against gays forcing the religious to validate their (gays) life choices.

For now, the Post would never admit it, but I'd almost put real money on it.