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

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

[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."

[setter]

I’ve been out of the dating game for 2 1/2 decades.

Are white women still dating white guys or is that old fashioned?

Every commercial on tv shows a white woman with either a black boyfriend or husband so I presume they are just mimicking the current dating and marriage scene?

[Yashcheritsiy]

I see no problem with this. They can believe what they like and act on it.

[katana]

Agreed. But that doesn't make them, in just my personal opinion, any less misguided as to what Christ might have to say about the matter. I mean, if being an @$$hat was illegal wouldn't most if not all Democrats be locked up?

Hmmmmm ....

[zeestephen]

Did the owner know she was being filmed?

This whole episode is WAY too convenient.

I will speculate that Mississippi has the highest number of Black-white couples in America - for the simple reason that Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black people in the nation.

My point - 2019 cannot be the FIRST time this business had to deal with the issue of inter-racial marriage.

I am waiting to hear the untold back story here.

Even the language being used by the sister - “I was shaking” - sounds politically contrived.

[metmom]

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."

Nonsense.

There's nothing in Scripture that even alludes to it or mentions it. she's misusing the Word of God to justify her own prejudice and sin for playing favorites.

[Flick Lives]

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

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I’m impressed. Your time machine allows you to go back 3,000 years. Mine is limited to under 2,000.

[Red Badger]

Hmmm, seems that Aaron and Miriam learned that lesson the hard way................

[farming pharmer]

On Interracial Marriage: The Moral Status of Miscegenation

Excerpt (it's rather lenghty, but the most well-thought out writing on the subject I've ever read):

Miscegenation, more commonly called interracial marriage, is one of the touchiest subjects about which one can speak today. There is widespread pressure, coming from both Christians and non-Christians alike, urging people towards the claimed goodness of racial diversity within marriage. For instance, John Piper contends that “interracial marriage is not only permitted by God but is a positive good in our day.”1 Similarly, secular humanist Paul Kurtz gives a more comprehensive and forthright affirmation of miscegenation when he states, “The highest good, as I see it, is intermarriage between people of different ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures.”2

Against views like these, it is rare to hear an opposing opinion today, and this is usually because any opposition to miscegenation — even saying merely that it is not a good idea — receives accusations of racism or, if the voice of opposition is a white person, white supremacy. Opposition to interracial marriage, especially if coming from a white person, is usually interpreted to entail hatred of other races. Allegedly, the only reason people would be opposed to marrying those of other races is because they have hatred or animosity for other races. It is because of this allegation that any opposition to miscegenation has been thoroughly and censoriously silenced. Despite such censoring — or perhaps, because of it — it is vital that we thoroughly understand the topic, rather than passively accepting anything with which our unbelieving culture and media might try to inculcate us.

Excerpt of the conclusion:

Miscegenation is unnatural and works against God’s purposes, especially when racial admixture occurs in large quantities. Therefore its default status is one of moral wrongness. In unordinary situations, the unnatural may be morally permissible, particularly when it is kept in small numbers (so as to not destroy the distinctiveness of a people or culture), but in ordinary situations, the default status of miscegenation cannot be overturned. We ought not to value the natural and the unnatural equally, and we also ought not to treat race as meaningless or insignificant.

[marktwain]

Every commercial on tv shows a white woman with either a black boyfriend or husband so I presume they are just mimicking the current dating and marriage scene?

I suspect you are being sarcastic.

The dominant media is pushing political correctness 24-7.

You may also have noticed men are hopelessly incompetent, and all smart bosses are black or women.

[DoodleDawg]

I suspect the Post is indirectly linking this to the Colorado baker, the Oregon couple, etc.

The links are obvious, and I'm sure the Post is overjoyed at the chance to print a story on an incident like this.

[TheZMan]

There are a few examples, but you have to tilt your head to the side to get there.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Leviticus-19-19/

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Deuteronomy-Chapter-7/

[lodi90]

Are white women still dating white guys or is that old fashioned?

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Not much, apparently. Both of my next door neighbors are biracial families. One is a baby mama with biracial kids. And there are more on the rest of my block of Florida suburbia than I can count.

[setter]

“You may also have noticed men are hopelessly incompetent, and all smart bosses are black or women”

The Car Gurus commercial drives me nuts.

[Meatspace]

“Did the owner know she was being filmed?”

How would her knowledge or lack of knowledge that she was being filmed impact her Christian believe?

[Maskot]

The deny service to people with dogs! Where’s the outrage??

[lodi90]

You may also have noticed men are hopelessly incompetent, and all smart bosses are black or women.

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Yep. I also get a chuckle out of the never ending stream of TV ads with black actors in opulent Architectural Digest style homes.

[JayGalt]

and all smart bosses are black or women.
... or both

[Meatspace]

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

It is fascinating that once the media and government lawyers were banging on her front door that she revised her religious ideology.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Some Christians think that God divided the people at the Tower of Babel, and he meant to keep it that way.

[DoodleDawg]

It is fascinating that once the media and government lawyers were banging on her front door that she revised her religious ideology.

It's a miracle. </sarcasm>