Here's to the State of Mississippi...

http://news.yahoo.com/mississppi-church-refuses-marry-black-couple-205218322--abc-news-topstories.html

Mississippi Church Refuses to Marry Black Couple

They had booked their wedding far in advance. The invitations had been sent, the programs printed. But one day before Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson were to be married at the Mississippi church they frequented, they said a pastor told them they would have to find another venue -- because they were black.

There has never been a black wedding at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., since its founding in 1883. According to Pastor Stan Weatherford, some church members objected so strongly to breaking that precedent, they threatened to oust him from his pastorship.

I feel a song coming on, folks...

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Here's to the State of Mississippi... (Original post)	Zalatix	Jul 2012	OP
"Mississippi go and find yourself another country to be part of"	leftofcool	Jul 2012	#1
Here's a link to a CNN video regarding the issue	Tx4obama	Jul 2012	#2
This is why SBC afiliated churches don't deserve respect as institutions.	Monk06	Jul 2012	#3

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Sat Jul 28, 2012, 10:06 PM

leftofcool (19,460 posts)

1. "Mississippi go and find yourself another country to be part of"

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Sat Jul 28, 2012, 11:20 PM

Monk06 (7,675 posts)

3. This is why SBC afiliated churches don't deserve respect as institutions.

A friend of mine goes to a Baptist Church in Vancouver. For twenty years I tolerated his railing against gays. This from a guy who's had one girlfriend in his fifty years of living with his parents. He used to hang out in the alley behind Richards St which is a gay pickup hangout. One can be forgiven from wondering if he is in gay denial himself.

I finally stopped talking to him when he said that in order to live biblically he could not believe in evolution.

In university he majored in Marxist Critical Theory. Mostly Walter Benjamin.

Go figure

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Here's to the State of Mississippi...

1. "Mississippi go and find yourself another country to be part of"

2. Here's a link to a CNN video regarding the issue

3. This is why SBC afiliated churches don't deserve respect as institutions.