Racism alive and well in Mississippi:Black pipple can't marry in whitey's church

[Syt]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jMKmRMAKyHxerSCI6Jsh3dSxi4Ug?docId=CNG.9945fb93033ef5c0f101f42ee8c074af.291

US couple denied wedding because they were black
(AFP) – 10 hours ago 
WASHINGTON — A Mississippi couple got the shock of their lives when the pastor at the church they attended told them the wedding they planned could not be held there because they are black, ABC television reported.

Pastor Stan Weatherford told the network there had never been a wedding for blacks at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, since it was opened in 1883.

He said some of the white congregarion so virulently opposed the wedding of Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson, who are black, that they threatened to have him fired.

Weatherford, a pastor who is white, offered to wed the Wilsons down the road at a mostly black church, he told the network.

"My 9-year-old was going to the church with us. How would you say to your 9-year-old daughter, 'We cannot get married here because, guess what sweetie, we're black,'" Charles Wilson told ABC's affiliate WAPT-TV.

The would-be groom told WAPT that the couple intended to join the church as members after their wedding, which was planned for July 20. Until they got the bad news that forced them to move their ceremony to another church where it was held July 21.

Locals voiced shock at the pastor's move.

"That church was their home," said local resident Theresa Norwood, 48. "What would Jesus have done? He would have married them, without a doubt, because it's the right thing to do. We're all God's children," she said.

[Josephus]

Racism alive andwell in Mississippi:

Was this ever in doubt?

[Neil]

Te'Andrea?  Sounds to me like it was justified.

[Iormlund]

I'm finding myself in agreement with Neil a lot lately. Should I be worried?

[katmai]

means you need to up your meds dosage.

[garbon]

Oh that poor church. It is now going to reasonably get fucked.

[CountDeMoney]

Te'Andrea

Relation of yours, garbon?

[Razgovory]

Oh that poor church. It is now going to reasonably get fucked.

Never took you for the religious type.

[Martinus]

Oh that poor church. It is now going to reasonably get fucked.

Yeah I kinda feel sorry for them. I think we are reaching the point, when it comes to equality, when individuals and private organizations could actually use some freedom in being bigoted. Besides, I'm pretty sure that church would have also refused to marry two guys, so why make a big fuss out of this particular case of discrimination?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Oh that poor church. It is now going to reasonably get fucked.

Yeah I kinda feel sorry for them. I think we are reaching the point, when it comes to equality, when individuals and private organizations could actually use some freedom in being bigoted. Besides, I'm pretty sure that church would have also refused to marry two guys, so why make a big fuss out of this particular case of discrimination?

Outrage sells.

[garbon]

Te'Andrea

Relation of yours, garbon?

Though I'd say no as that is nowhere near as hard to pronounce as Meo'shay.

[garbon]

Oh that poor church. It is now going to reasonably get fucked.

Never took you for the religious type.

I'm not.

[Jaron]

It sounds like the pastor was just trying to avoid conflict and drama for the black couples wedding. He sounds like a good man.

[garbon]

Yeah I kinda feel sorry for them. I think we are reaching the point, when it comes to equality, when individuals and private organizations could actually use some freedom in being bigoted. Besides, I'm pretty sure that church would have also refused to marry two guys, so why make a big fuss out of this particular case of discrimination?

Because everyone generally agrees that racism is a problem. That isn't the same for homophobia (yet).

[Ideologue]

Te'Andrea

Relation of yours, garbon?

Though I'd say no as that is nowhere near as hard to pronounce as Meo'shay.