Overt Racism in Crystal Springs, Mississippi First Baptist Church: No Black Weddings Allowed!

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4. The pastor should have gone ahead and performed

the ceremony anyway. Let them kick him out. That is what Jesus would have done.

Further clarification -

They were not members of this church. No indication that they would have been denied membership if they had applied. Churches can and, in my opinion, should exclude non-members from wedding ceremonies (at least one member should be a current member of the church or had had parents as members in the church or had grown up in the church). We exclude non-members at our church and all couples have to go through counseling with the pastor.

I would want more details before passing judgement. If the couple had a prior contractual arrangement to have the ceremony in the church, I would think the church would be liable. The membership requirement should have been brought up at the time, and any decent church would gracefully ask that they become members.