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.

Rather than risk his job, Weatherford, who is white, said he decided to marry the pair at a black church down the road.
"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.

Outrage over the wedding's forced relocation swept the Jackson suburb of about 5,000 into a media firestorm.
The vast majority of Crystal Springs residents, blacks and whites alike, were "blown away" by the church's decision, said Theresa Norwood, 48, who was born in Crystal Springs and has lived there her entire life.

Norwood said she believes Weatherford should have married the Wilsons regardless of the risk to his job.
"That church was their home," she said. "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."

While the Wilsons were not members of the church, they often attended services there, and Te'Andrea's uncle is an employee of the church, and her father is a member. Charles Wilson told WAPT that the couple had planned to join as members after their wedding, which was held July 20.

Weatherford told WLBT-TV in Jackson that he would have liked to marry the couple as planned, but he decided to perform the ceremony elsewhere as a compromise to ensure that the Wilsons could be married while "addressing a need within our congregation."

Norwood, who is black, said her nephew came to worship at First Baptist Church while he was temporarily living with her, having been evacuated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The church "made him feel at home," she said, but now she wonders whether he would return there when he visits Crystal Springs.

The church is now holding internal meetings to figure out how it should respond to future requests by black couples to be married there, Weatherford told WLBT-TV.
For her part, though, Norwood, who is dating a white man, said that if she and her boyfriend decide to get married, they will likely look for a different venue.


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

Yes remember there are still isolated towns in USA where they chase away all non white people or treat them very badly until they go away or die or get locked in prison..Mississippi and tennessee and many other states have areas like this..i happened to get chased out of one town while travelling accross the country...The original people of this land are not white and they are also treated this way in those areas...i can only imagine that president Obama would drivr into these towns and be chased out by ignorant haters...Places like that eventually all become related to each other and since no new people are allowed,thaey marry into insest.....The government of USA provides leagal intervention for this as was in my home state Kentucky where an african man was denied marriage in the church of his white fiancee...The case went to supreme court and the church was shamed all over national news castings...The African man did marry his white bride and the pastor apologized for his sins....Good topic

okay

Southern USA is just like Northern Nigeria. Such backward people.

19naia: Yes remember there are still isolated towns in USA where they chase away all non white people or treat them very badly until they go away or die or get locked in prison..Mississippi and tennessee and many other states have areas like this..i happened to get chased out of one town while travelling accross the country...The original people of this land are not white and they are also treated this way in those areas...i can only imagine that president Obama would drivr into these towns and be chased out by ignorant haters...Places like that eventually all become related to each other and since no new people are allowed,thaey marry into insest.....The government of USA provides leagal intervention for this as was in my home state Kentucky where an african man was denied marriage in the church of his white fiancee...The case went to supreme court and the church was shamed all over national news castings...The African man did marry his white bride and the pastor apologized for his sins....Good topic

You are talking off point. We are talking about a church, you are talking about a town. This couple had been members for many years..This is so different and very insane.Nothing justifies this barbaric act.

@ Topic: Churches don't "marry" people. They "wed" them.

aginamuk: @ Topic: Churches don't "marry" people. They "wed" them.

Both words are right. Some people just like ITK.

This is nt strange.we all kw dat there are always a protocol 2 follow wen anybody intended to do anything in "white land".it is nt lyk Nigeria here where things are done anyhw without following protocol.

So even USA that people feel are the most friendly country is practicing racism huh? The total number of people living in Mississippi is about 3million and about 37% of them are blacks. So how have they been wedding the other blacks in that ungodly church? And what happens to the rest that are blacks? Isn't this a sign of end time?

Finland:
You are talking off point. We are talking about a church, you are talking about a town. This couple had been members for many years..This is so different and very insane.Nothing justifies this barbaric act.

He is not talking off point, the cardinal issue that this thread seeks to address is Racism in the USA.

Billyonaire: He is not talking off point, the cardinal issue that this thread seeks to address is Racism in the USA.

It seeks to address both racism and the behaviours of some Christians.

evry1 nation and p[eople has got their own problems... hhmm. evry man to his god, religion for us all.

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Max'diamond:
This is nt strange.we all kw dat there are always a protocol 2 follow wen anybody intended to do anything in "white land".it is nt lyk Nigeria here where things are done anyhw without following protocol.

Oga,what are you saying? What has protocol got to do here? The man said that since 1884(or what?),blacks have not been wedded in the church. This is a pure RACISM and has nothing to do with protocols. I fear U o

aginamuk: @ Topic: Churches don't "marry" people. They "wed" them.

Make sure sth is wrong b4 tryin 2 correct it. 'Marry' means joining a man and woman jst lik 'wed'.

Well am not so surprised Mississippi is filled with whites,really not a good place for blacks.

Well am not so surprised Mississippi is filled with whites,really not a good place for blacks...

Soft.

mikolo.007:
Well am not so surprised Mississippi is filled with whites,really not a good place for blacks.

You're wrong. There's a huge black population in the southern states of Mississipi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama etc. Infact most of these states have 40% blacks.

The 'Deep South' that gave birth to KKK - Eveready to display their nazi instincts. Shameful!

They wont wed 2 black couple bt dey will wed 2 white gays....smh

DonHummer: They wont wed 2 black couple bt dey will wed 2 white gays....smh

lol...gay is the new black

Racism is the senior brother of Tribalism.

If you are a black tribalist, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Most white people cannot even tell the difference between Ghanian and Nigerian, talk less of Ibo and Yoruba...or even more laughable, Anambra and Imo.

To the rest of the world, you are just BLACK.

This is not a God issue. It's a church issue. Two very different things. Churches don't always represent God the way He deserves.

Finland:
You are talking off point. We are talking about a church, you are talking about a town. This couple had been members for many years..This is so different and very insane.Nothing justifies this barbaric act.

And u r quoting off point too.... Read the post carefully. B/4 u try to criticize... They r not yet members of the church but planned tobe after their wedding. dim..t

sycamore:




And u r quoting off point too.... Read the post carefully. B/4 u try to criticize... They r not yet members of the church but planned tobe after their wedding. dim..t

They've always been members of the church.

aginamuk: @ Topic: Churches don't "marry" people. They "wed" them.

if u say potetoes and i say poreroe na de same potetoes, if u say tomato and i say tometo na the same tomatoes

What the hey? Satan is rolling and laughing at this. You hypocrites at this Baptist church in Crystal Springs Mississippi, best get your house in order. Showing Non Christian folks out there, who might be interested in learing about Jesus, finding the true path to GOD, What fine upstanding "christians" are all about. Memebers of the church, are not allowed to get married because they are black. Get Freakin real.
Alot of these folks may get turned off to GOD due to your silly Narrow minded ways. As Satan spreads his wings laughing, and flies away. He has a mighty fine house of worship doese't he.

afam4eva:
You're wrong. There's a huge black population in the southern states of Mississipi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama etc. Infact most of these states have 40% blacks.

U very right!
Fire On!!!

afam4eva:
You're wrong. There's a huge black population in the southern states of Mississipi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama etc. Infact most of these states have 40% blacks.

U very right!
Fire On!!!

Most of you on this thread should just shut up. Majority of Nigerians are Tribalist. Bloody hypocrites. So you only become self righteous when you are discriminated by a white man?