White Church Bans Black Couple From Getting Married

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CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MS (WLBT) -
It was to be their big day, but a Jackson couple says the church where they were planning to wed turned them away because of their race.
Now, the couple wants answers, and the church's pastor is questioning the mindset of some of members of his congregation who caused the problem in the first place.
They had set the date and printed and mailed out all the invitations, but the day before wedding bells were to ring for Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson, they say they got some bad news from the pastor.
"The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church," said Charles Wilson.
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http://www.myfoxal.com/story/19125864/black-wedding-banned-by-baptist-church
 
Makes you wonder does'nt it? When I first read the story I thought it was one of those joke headlines from The Onion. Much to my dismay it was not.
 
Seems short sighted of businesses to make statements like that. I can see if someone wanted to make a Charles Manson cake or a B-day cake for Hitler. I suspect the general population would support that. Coming out against gays or blacks or something is risky. Keep your mouth shut or risk the consequences. At least Philips realizes it might cost him his business. Seems kind of stupid to me but what ever.
 
Lets see where this happened.
Use the Mississippi river to divide the lower 48 in half on a 'north to south' line.
Now use the Mason/Dixon line..extended all the way to the pacific.
Now we have the country diveded into (roughly) quarters. A ....NE quadrant, a NW quadrant, a SW quadrant, and a " SE " quadrant.
What a surprise, this disgrace happened in the SE quadrant (Mississippi to be exact). Smack dab in the hard core RED State SOUTH !
Should the '48' ever need a Good ENEMA, always insert the Plug in the "SE" quadrant !
 
Colorado is in the southeast? Where exactly did you go to school, Bears?

This was in Massachusetts: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/erica-winchester-mailman-video_n_782864.html

This was in Illinois: http://racismdaily.com/2011/08/05/illinois-man-sues-jiffy-lube-over-racist-anti-semitic-photos/

And here's one from Florida: http://gawker.com/5929692/disney-world-guest-ordered-to-change-his-clothes-because-he-looked-too-much-like-santa-claus?popular=true


It ain't a north/south/red state/blue state thing. Look hard enough, and just about anywhere you'll manage to find trash...
 
I believe the implication is that racism is (seems) more prevalent in the South. Even you said "Look hard enough..." Yes if you look hard you'll find it anywhere, just look casually and you are more likely to find it in the South, or at least so it seems. Also, given their history perhaps it is just easier to see.
 
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Lets see where this happened.
Use the Mississippi river to divide the lower 48 in half on a 'north to south' line.
Now use the Mason/Dixon line..extended all the way to the pacific.
Now we have the country diveded into (roughly) quarters. A ....NE quadrant, a NW quadrant, a SW quadrant, and a " SE " quadrant.
What a surprise, this disgrace happened in the SE quadrant (Mississippi to be exact). Smack dab in the hard core RED State SOUTH !
Should the '48' ever need a Good ENEMA, always insert the Plug in the "SE" quadrant !
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http://www.adl.org/racist_skinheads/skinhead_map.asp
 
From the what the minister said it was a small minority of the membership that voiced their opposition. To which I say, why did'nt he tell them to pound sand? In a nice Christian way.
 
Either because he agrees with them or he has no moral character. One who sits idly by while watching to me shares nearly as much guilt of not more. The ignorant whites who voiced their opposition did not know better. The pastor knew it was wrong and did nothing. I have more disdain for him than I do the members.
 
Another good reason to defeat Al-Qaida and keep radical Islam in check.

Mali al-Qaida-linked group stones couple to death over alleged adultery

By NBC News staff and wire reports
BAMAKO, Mali -- An al-Qaida-linked Islamist militant group in control of northern Mali stoned to death a couple accused of engaging in extramarital affairs, the group's spokesman said.
The couple were publicly executed in the remote town of Aguelhok, near the vast West African nation's northern border with Algeria, on Sunday, a spokesman for the Ansar Dine group told Reuters.
"These two people were married and had extra-conjugal relations. Our men on the ground in Aguelhok applied shariah (Islamic law)," said Sanda Ould Bounama, reached by telephone on Monday.

"They both died right away and even asked for this application. We don't have to answer to anyone over the application of shariah," he said.
Al-Qaida-linked fighters destroy 'end of the world' gate in Timbuktu
A local government official told the AFP news agency that he was on the scene. "The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the center of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," he said.
"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said. The man shouted out once and then was silent, he added.

Coup topples 'incompetent regime': Soldiers seize power in Mali
Most people living in northern Mali have long practiced Islam, but frustrations with the strict form of shariah being imposed by Islamists have sparked several protests in recent months. Ansar Dine and well-armed allies, including al-Qaida splinter group MUJWA, have hijacked a separatist uprising by local Tuareg rebels and now control two-thirds of Mali's desert north, territory that includes the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.

NYT: African Afghanistan? Thousands flee Mali as jihadists tighten their grip
Western and African governments are struggling to muster a response to the crisis as politicians in the capital Bamako continue to squabble over how the country should be governed after a March coup removed the country's president.

In the first installment of Rock Center's Hidden Planet series, Richard Engel travels to Mali, on the edge of the Sahara desert, to discover the city of Timbuktu.
NBCNews.com staff contributed to this report from Reuters
 
Either because he agrees with them or he has no moral character. One who sits idly by while watching to me shares nearly as much guilt of not more. The ignorant whites who voiced their opposition did not know better. The pastor knew it was wrong and did nothing. I have more disdain for him than I do the members.
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Easy for you to say from your armchair. In the Baptist church, a minister works directly as an at-will employee, reporting to the church's elected directors and members.

It's the congregation's facility, not his. Holding the wedding when told not to would have been trespassing.

Maybe this would count as a case where civil disobedience should be used, but if you get the wedding party arrested on their wedding day, that's not going to help matters much. The minister was told he would be fired for standing his ground -- he's the one looking for a new job and moving his family, not you. Instead of taking that risk, he stood his ground in a different way that ultimately got the issue, fixed instead of just swept under the carpet.

The issue was addressed thru the right channels. The wedding went on without any use of handcuffs during the ceremony, and the original church took care of what was likely one or two individuals overstepping their authority. No violence, no breaking the law, and no embarrassment to anyone except the church directors who were in the wrong.
 
Ms Tree said:
Seems short sighted of businesses to make statements like that. I can see if someone wanted to make a Charles Manson cake or a B-day cake for Hitler. I suspect the general population would support that. Coming out against gays or blacks or something is risky. Keep your mouth shut or risk the consequences. At least Philips realizes it might cost him his business. Seems kind of stupid to me but what ever.
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Not a fan of the First Amendment, huh?
 
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