wedding venue owner who rejected interracial couple, - claims she just learned Bible doesn't support

[Demovictory9]

“To all of those offended, hurt or felt condemn by my statement I truly apologize to you for my ignorance in not knowing the truth about this,” the now-deleted apology read. “My intent was never of racism, but to stand firm on what I ‘assumed’ was right concerning marriage.”

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In her apology, the event hall’s owner attempted to explain why she believed the Bible supported her views on interracial marriages, describing how she only recently discovered that wasn’t the case. She began by writing that as “a child growing up in Mississippi” it was an unspoken understanding that people stayed “with your own race.” But then on Saturday, 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 to turn away Welch’s brother and his fiancee was “incorrect.”


“As my bible reads, there are 2 requirements for marriage and race has nothing to do with either!” the Facebook post read. “All of my years I had ‘assumed’ in my mind that I was correct, but have never taken the opportunity to research and find whether this was correct or incorrect until now.”

She later added: “If I have learned anything from this it would be to know what you’re talking about before you open your mouth! Again … my sincerest apologies to all!"

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.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/03/mississippi-wedding-venue-rejects-interracial-couple-christian-belief-apologized/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ignorance of the Bible and the Civil Rights Act is no excuse.

[ChubbyStar]

2. Translation: Oh shit my business is going down the drain

Fuck her.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, no doubt that's the real reason for her fake apology. n/t

[malaise]

6. You win the thread

It's that simple. Boycott this racist asshole.

[sheshe2]

7. Good.

She is already morally bankrupt. Let's move on to financially.

[lame54]

16. Money trumps the bible...

Which she through under the bus

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. you hurt my brain ...

"Money trumps the bible"? That's just a very confusing juxtapostioning of words! I can deal with money and trumps together, and even money and bibles together, but jamming all three together just make my brain run screaming, looking for a corner in my skull to hide in.

I remember news about the worst of the trumps scrawling heavy black marks on bibles. Maybe it got money for that?

Gotta be some distilled spirits in the house somewhere.

[ismnotwasm]

35. Yup

[Aristus]

39. That's it.

Remorse rarely sounds more forced than hers...

[RKP5637]

3. She's an ignorant fool! No apology will mask her hatred. n/t

[exboyfil]

5. What kills me is that most divorces

are not in compliance to the rules set out by the Bible. So those divorced getting remarried are not in compliance more so than homosexual couples (where marriage is not prohibited).

Also I get sometimes they serve shrimp at the wedding feast (reception). I am sure most women's heads are not covered during the service.

[LonePirate]

8. A bigot using religion to justify their views, huh? Again?

[ChubbyStar]

10. Sanctimonious assholes do it because it usually works for them

That needs to STOP. Maybe she will lose her business....GOOD!

[brush]

9. A likely story. More likely is she was notified that she was being sued for violation of civil...

rights laws.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. another hateful, lying, hypocritical follower of the loving God...

This Welch dude, he underestimates the ignorance of some Christians...their politics informs their faith instead of the other way around.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I'll bet there are a lot of fundies who have no idea what's in the Bible

besides what their loony pastors have told them.

[maxsolomon]

20. This.

So much White Racism is just received ignorance.

Miscagenation! Run!

[BadGimp]

13. Truth or not...

The fact that she would come forward and say this and speak so clearly on the issue is imo progress on some level.

That is all...

[ComtesseDeSpair]

14. So, let me get this straight....

She lives her life by a book that she's never read?

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. Quelle surprise, eh?

“Faith is not a pathway to truth”. - Matt Dillahunty

[Skittles]

18. and her husband, who surely was aware of her racist views

is just now asking her to prove her assertion?

the apology just does not ring true

[FiveGoodMen]

38. She and roughly two billion others

[sarisataka]

15. So to correct her error

Has she offered the couple the use of the venue free of charge and pick up expenses?
Contrition should be accompanied with atonement

[Dorian Gray]

19. I can't imagine they'd want anything to do with that place....

I think that she so publicly spoke about this is a sign that she knows she needs PR help. But also, if she's open to learning and meeting
people of different backgrounds now, there is always room for growth.

[StarfishSaver]

21. I believe her

[Crunchy Frog]

25. I too believe that she's never actually read the book that she claims to live by.

[uponit7771]

27. +1, I believe the majority have never read the book or its intent for this time

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. I believe that she is a racist and a hypocrite. nt

[USALiberal]

33. Lol, ok! Nt

[bullwinkle428]

22. Sweetie-pie, you showed your "DEEPLY-HELD BELIEFS" for all the world to see; there ain't

no standing behind a cardboard cutout of Jesus to save your ass anymore!

[struggle4progress]

23. "At least I still have my Second Commandment right to own a gun!"

[Crunchy Frog]

24. It would help if these "Christians" would start actually reading their own holy text.

Interesting that she's "sorry" for making a theological error rather than hurting people and violating their rights.

Hope that vile creature goes down in ruins.

[ecstatic]

26. gmafb! nt

[Takket]

29. as if.... "hey, it turns out I don't need to be racist after all...."

somehow makes it all better. not "we're going to accept this business because it is simply the RIGHT thing to do" but "The Bible doesn't restrict me from doing the right thing, so, okay."

THAT is not an improvement if you ask me!

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. Praise be Social Media!

Nothing like severe and immediate blowback to "see the light".

I suspect her privately held racist beliefs had nothing to do with the Bible...but the Book of Balance Sheets is a whole different story.

[bitterross]

31. Racist AND Ignorant

I don't believe her for a minute when she says she thought the Bible supported her position. No doubt many, many of her Southern Baptist ministers told her that. It's not 1950 anymore though. You have to be willfully ignorant not to know there is nothing in the Bible that specifically prohibits interracial marriage. It was always just the way racists interpreted the Bible.

[Skittles]

34. yeah but hey, to be racist IS to be ignorant

you cannot be racist without also being ignorant

[harumph]

32. I'm inclined not to believe her explanation.

But...even giving her the benefit of the doubt - leaves me intensely sad. She's the definition of
pathetic.

[keithbvadu2]

36. That's ok. You can ignore the parts of the Bible you do not want to follow.

That's ok. You can ignore the parts of the Bible you do not want to follow.

The sanctity of Holy matrimony for conservative Christians - Kim Davis