Wedding venue rejected interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’

[Jeff Ray]

This came up on my news feed this morning:

A Mississippi wedding venue rejected an interracial couple, citing ‘Christian belief.’

Aside from the obvious (another 'Christian making Christianity look bad' story), the thing that stood out to me was the gentle way her husband corrected her:

But ... when her husband asked her to point to relevant sections of the Bible, she couldn’t. After spending hours scouring the text and sitting down with her pastor, the owner wrote that she finally concluded that the reasoning behind her decision ... was “incorrect.”

Given the many discussions here about spiritual headship, I thought this was an interesting real-world example done while under hostile public scrutiny.

 

[rockfox]

At least one person said the woman’s “heartfelt apology” warranted forgiveness, but others, including Welch, remained unswayed.

“I am 24 and have been brought up my entire life in a Christian Family; my grandad being a reverend,” Welch wrote in the email to The Post. “If I know that the Bible doesn’t say anything about biracial marriages, she knows too.”

To the Christian mind, apologizing means one has repented of wrong, turned down the right path, and should be forgiven. To the secularist it means you agree with their assessment that you are guilty of bad think must be destroyed.