Citing 'Christian Belief,' Mississippi Event Hall Refuses Service To Interracial Couple

[conuly]

The owner of the venue then posted an apology on Facebook, explaining they had met with their pastor and discovered no Bible passage forbidding interracial marriage.

“The revelation was apparently quite surprising for the author, who referenced being taught that races should remain separate while growing up,” Newsweek wrote, paraphrasing the Facebook apology.

Well, all's well that end's well I guess...?

But I'm damn certain that the author was 100% taught that growing up. There are fundiegelical types that still teach that, or at least strongly imply it. The rise of modern Evangelicism and Fundamentalism in America is very, very strongly linked to the Civil Rights Movement - and not in a good way.

Comments

[8hyenas]

I have two strong church memories from early childhood (from two different churches, both mainstream).

1) Holding a pamphlet showing how soon minorities were going to out-breed the white race. As the only obviously brown person there, I was absolutely thrilled by this new information.

2) Being told that due to my original sin of being mixed race I was going to hell.

[conuly]

That must've been fun.

[thewayne]

I lived in a city where white people were the minority - Las Cruces, NM. Lovely place, especially compared to the place that I live next to, Alamogordo, where they're trying to re-invent the '50s - and failing.

The decline in white reproduction rates has been a strong trend for a long time, and my wife and I and several couples that I know are happy to be a part of that by not having kids.

Nice of them to tell you to your face that you're going to hell because you exist, not for something you've done. And they don't understand why church attendance is steadily falling.