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A Mississippi wedding venue rejected an interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’
Washington Post via MSN ^ | 9/3/19 | Allyson Chiu

Posted on 09/03/2019 5:28:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg

When LaKambria S. Welsch drove to Boone's Camp Event hall on Saturday, she was in search of an explanation.

Welch told The Washington Post in an email that her brother and his finacee had recently been coordinating with the wedding venue in Booneville, Miss., about hosting their upcoming nuptials until they were informed that they were no longer welcome.

Why? Welch said it's because her brother is black and his bride-to-be is white.

In a now viral video shared to social media by Welch over the weekend, a woman identified as the event hall's owner can be seen telling the 24-year-old, "First of all, we don't do gay weddings or mixed race...because of our Christian race, I mean or Christian belief."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: marriage
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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.
1 posted on 09/03/2019 5:28:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

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


2 posted on 09/03/2019 5:32:33 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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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.


3 posted on 09/03/2019 5:32:51 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Riiiiiight. I smell a setup.


4 posted on 09/03/2019 5:34:17 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: DoodleDawg
I find this story as difficult to swallow as this potage au gelee.


5 posted on 09/03/2019 5:35:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: JudyinCanada
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.
6 posted on 09/03/2019 5:36:22 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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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.


7 posted on 09/03/2019 5:41:48 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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The woman later said she discovered she was wrong about Christianity forbidding interracial marriage, and she apologized, saying she was wrong.


8 posted on 09/03/2019 5:42:11 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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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?

9 posted on 09/03/2019 5:43:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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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.


10 posted on 09/03/2019 5:45:26 AM PDT by _longranger81 (Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
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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.”


11 posted on 09/03/2019 5:47:19 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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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.

12 posted on 09/03/2019 5:47:27 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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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.


13 posted on 09/03/2019 5:49:19 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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...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.

14 posted on 09/03/2019 5:49:23 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Kriggerel

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


15 posted on 09/03/2019 5:49:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: DoodleDawg

I agree. Paid provocateurs.


16 posted on 09/03/2019 5:53:03 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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Are you certain about that?


17 posted on 09/03/2019 6:01:06 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: DoodleDawg

Nation of Islam bigots probably do.


18 posted on 09/03/2019 6:02:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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Haven’t activists told us that Moses was black? So how is that an interracial marriage?


19 posted on 09/03/2019 6:04:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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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.

20 posted on 09/03/2019 6:06:58 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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