Event hall cancels mixed-race couple's wedding: 'Our Christian beliefs don't allow mixed weddings'

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88. There's also "Christianists". That one's been around for awhile.

Not really “Christian” as in “followers of Christ.” Nope. These are followers of what they “believe” are some cockamamie man-made conveniently and selfishly politicized distortions of the Message of Christ - to accommodate their personal prejudices and earthly biases and judgmentalisms. It’s the very fallible and deeply suspect “teachings” of man, not of Jesus.

Ye olde long-ago Catholic school inmate here. In my opinion and in-person witness throughout my foundational “Wonder years,” we were taught that the Teachings of Jesus were not exclusionary. He intended His Word out there to be for EVERYONE. From the exalted to the excoriated. BOTH the wanted and unwanted. The “in crowd” AND the outsiders and the banished and the otherwise-excluded.

Jesus would not have turned that prospective bride and groom away. He would not have judged. Certainly not the way this venue management did.

The real challenge, though, is to follow His Teachings ALL the way out. And that’s the hard part. Because we’re judging, too, when we condemn the perceived offenders here.

But DAYUM that’s hard. That’s the almost-impossibly hard part. It’s damn hard not to call a spade a spade. I struggle with that every minute of every day (particularly these days!), and I have a very long track record of failure - well-documented here. Jesus said we must love everyone, including our enemies. And that’s DAMN HARD. The whole “hate the sin, not the sinner” thing. And I fail at that every doggone day.

It’s hard NOT to hate and/or despise our republi-CON enemies. It’s hard not to hate who and what they are. It’s certainly easy to hate what they do.