Marriage equality

[rubato]

It is a telling fact that no blacks have been married in this putatively christian church in the past 44 years.

That is an expression of hatred. For those with ears to hear.

yrs,
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[MajGenl.Meade]

From their WhiteFacebook page....

[Lord Jim]

It is a telling fact that no blacks have been married in this putatively christian church in the past 44 years.

That is an expression of hatred. For those with ears to hear.

yrs,
rubato

There we have another classic example of Brenda seizing upon one bit of information and attempting to morph it into "proof" of his predetermined conclusion....

The fact that no African American couples had been married in that church before does not, standing alone, in and of itself, provide proof of anything, let alone an "expression of hatred"....

When placed in the context of the disgusting sequence of events that took place in this case, it could legitimately raise questions about whether or not something similar had taken place previously, but by itself it proves absolutely nothing.

[Sean]

I lived in a very small village in rural Ireland for some years during the '80s. Now that I come to think of it, there wasn't one black person in the entire village church congregation in all that time, let alone black people getting married there.

Those hateful, racist, Irish, Catholic bastards!


Context. All is context...

[Big RR]

I do think that most religious insitituions are fairly segregated, sometimes due to people in the congregation actively discouraging minorities from joining/attending, but many times because of far more complex reasons. Generally, I would think people tend to be attracted toward churches that run their services in the same way as the congregations they grew up with; while there are exceptions, I think most people would not feel comfortable attending a church with things done in a significantly different manner. Music, sermons, even the way the congregation expresses itself during the service 9some sit there silently, others whopp and yell and interat with the minister freely)--all of these vary from church to church and many people are uncomfortable with change. And so people raised in churches with bandsand rousing gospel music will attend the same type of churches, those who were raised in fairly staid congregations with classical music and sermons more like college lectures will attend churches doing the same, etc. And because these differences are found between congregations which are orimariily comprised of different races, the segregation continues. No intent to keep the 'others" out, no overt racism, just that those others will attend where they feel more comfortable.

That being said, a congregation refusing to allow members to be married in the church based on race is overtly racist.

[rubato]

A mixed-race congregation which has never married blacks in more than two generations is overtly racist.

yrs,
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