At least they are racists in the open so people know who and where they are and can avoid them like plague. It's the closet-racist assholes that I truely hate. They are like dog poop on the sidewalk in the dark, you step on them and curse at yourself afterward for not being able to see.
Why would they 'frequent' (per the OP) that church to begin with? Racism this strong has to be obvious across the board, right?
Then you are in favor of such churches getting involved directly in politics because that is what they give up for that tax exemptionI agree the pastor is a spineless coward, but the collective church made the decision. And there is only one penalty that is appropriate, THAT CHURCH SHOULD LOSE ITS TAX EXEMPT STATUS, until they straighten up their act. Part of which may involve the church booting its racists elements out of the church.
As this week Doonesbury Cartoon strip points out Jim Crowe is back, but its long past time for Washington to take action and slow Jim Crowe down.
so they don't have the right to cancel? This is what you are implying.
I agree the pastor is a spineless coward, but the collective church made the decision. And there is only one penalty that is appropriate, THAT CHURCH SHOULD LOSE ITS TAX EXEMPT STATUS, until they straighten up their act. Part of which may involve the church booting its racists elements out of the church.
As this week Doonesbury Cartoon strip points out Jim Crowe is back, but its long past time for Washington to take action and slow Jim Crowe down.
This is what happens when you use a 2000+ year old work of fiction to dictate your morals.
Though if they actually followed the teaching of said work, they would have been welcomed.
I don't blame the Constitution for creating Paulbots, just as I don't blame the bible for ignorant racists.
This is what happens when you use a 2000+ year old work of fiction to dictate your morals.
OMFG people today are too f^&((ng sensitive. Every chance someone gets to make a stink about race they do. Why not just choose another venue? Who says you have a right to this particular place? Yes there are ignorant people who still hold prejudices and there WILL ALWAYS BE. Get over yourself. Go where you're wanted and go on with life.
The Bible doesn't say anything about black people being inferior or not allowed to get married. This has nothing to do with Christianity or the Bible.... it has to do with racism still being alive and well in Mississippi.
Origin of the "Curse of Ham"
Noah curses Ham by Gustave Dore
While Genesis 9 never says that Ham was black, he became associated with black skin, through folk-etymology deriving his name from a similar, but actually unconnected, word meaning "dark" or "brown".[26] The next stage, in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, seems to have been Jewish folk-tales aimed at explaining why some of the world's peoples have black skin: according to one folk-tale preserved in the Babylonian Talmud, God cursed Ham because he broke a prohibition on sex aboard the ark and was cursed with blackness; according to another, Noah cursed him because he castrated his father.[27] Thus two distinct traditions existed, one explaining dark skin as the result of a curse on Ham, the other explaining slavery by the separate curse on Canaan.[28] The two concepts had first become merged in the 7th century by Muslim writers, the product of a culture with a long history of enslaving black Africans; the origin and persistence of the "Curse of Ham", in which Ham, blackness and slavery became a single curse, was thus the result of Islam's need for a justifying myth.[29]
Casey Kitchens, 37, a member of the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, said she and most of the congregation were "ashamed" at their church's refusal to marry a black couple, and that they had known nothing about it.
She said: "This is a small, small group of people who made a terrible decision. I'm just ashamed right now that my church would do that. I can't fathom why. How unfair. How unjust. It's just wrong."
dude they attend the church, they booked the church which means they talked to the church leaders.... are you stupid or just dumb?
Why would they 'frequent' (per the OP) that church to begin with? Racism this strong has to be obvious across the board, right?
Nothing like Liberals trying to stomp all over peoples beliefs that aren't their own. The church is private property. If they don't want to break with tradition, you don't have the right to force them. Stop trying to force your beliefs all over everyone else you tyrants.