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July 30th, 2012
04:53 PM ET

Church that barred black wedding affirms commitment to equal treatment

By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

(CNN) –A Mississippi church that wouldn't allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary because of the couple's race  appears to be trying to right a wrong, as officials with the church's denomination decried the incident.

Charles and Te' Andrea Wilson, regular attendees at First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, were forced to relocate their wedding this month at the last minute.  Their pastor, Stan Weatherford, made the relocation request on behalf of some congregants who didn't want to see the couple married there, according to CNN affiliate WLBT.

Weatherford performed the ceremony at a nearby church.

At services on Sunday, the congregation's leadership addressed the controversy in a statement read to the church.

"Our many ministries here are open to everyone and have been for many years," the church deacons said in a statement read to the congregation, according to The Clarion Ledger. "We would never consider doing otherwise."

When contacted Monday evening, Weatherford said the church would have no comment on the situation.

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In an interview Monday, a local Baptist official said the church leadership was trying to address the controversy and to move past it with the statement from church deacons.

"The deacons made an affirmation that First Baptist Church would be available to minister to anybody in the church or the community.  That went over real well," said Copiah County Baptist Association Director George Pat Bufkin, who attended the service. " They're now in the way of amends."

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called "radicals" and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.  Bufkin said he did not know who exactly was behind the calls.

Bufkin, whose group is made up of 30 Baptist churches in the area, said First Baptist is among the largest in the county. The 150-year-old church has around 800 members, he said, and is in the midst of a building campaign.

"Anytime the church grows you always have the devil there, trying to stir up problems," Bufkin said.  "That's what occurred here and the deacons have already nipped that in the bud."

Weatherford, the First Baptist pastor, told CNN affiliate WLBT last week about why he agreed to move the wedding.

"I didn't want to have a controversy within the church, and I didn't want a controversy to affect the wedding of Charles and Te' Andrea," he said. "I wanted to make sure their wedding day was a special day."

Calls, e-mails and text messages to the pastor by CNN were not returned on Monday.  No one answered the telephone at the church office.

Jonathan Thompson, the 27-year-old community relations director for the city of Crystal Springs, was at First Baptist's Sunday service, and said the incident "didn't represent all the people of the church."

"I wanted to come as a voice of racial reconciliation and spiritual reconciliation," said Thompson, who is African-American, explaining his decision to go to the church on Sunday.

Thompson said he was welcomed at the service.   "I was allowed to give the closing prayer," he said.  He said he prayed God would forgive all of them for their sins and that they would be able to find reconciliation.

Thompson has organized a unity rally for Monday night for area churches to come together to meet, sing and pray.

"I think this is an opportunity to really get intentional about reconciling," he said.

First Baptist's move to deny a wedding venue has been blasted by local and national officials with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 16 million members make up the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

"Mississippi Baptists both reject racial discrimination and at the same time respect the autonomy of our local churches to deal with difficulties and disagreements under the lordship of Jesus," said Dr. Jim Futral, the executive director the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

"While there may be hurts, wrongs and mistakes that must be addressed, the context for this to happen is in a historical church with a genuine caring pastor and thoughtful leaders who are seeking to do right," Futral's statement continued. "We, along with our entire body of faith, pray for them and stand ready to do anything that we can to help that church and that community."

A spokesman for the Southern Baptist executive committee told CNN the group would defer to local and state organizations for comment.

"We're not a top down organization," said Roger Oldham. "We're a bottom up organization. The congregation is the governing body."

Oldham said the local church needs to take corrective measures and he said they appear to be doing that in this case.

"The SBC has taken a strong position that racism is a sin and Christians should always oppose it," he said, referring to the Southern Baptist Convention.  "We're also grieved when a small group attempts to set policy for the entire congregation."

Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticized First Baptist's action.

"There are valid as well as nonvalid reasons for not permitting a couple to get married with the blessing of that local congregation of believers," Land said. "The race or ethnicity of that couple is never a valid reason and any local body of believers who rejects a couple on those grounds should be reprimanded."

"Everyone should understand that in the SBC this decision resides with the local congregation for good or ill. If this couple was indeed rejected because of their race, as a Southern Baptist I’m embarrassed, frustrated, and I apologize to the couple on behalf of the Convention for the hurt and emotional pain they’ve experienced,” Land's statement continued.

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Charles Wilson, the groom at the center of the controversy, said on Sunday, "All we wanted to do in the eyes of God was to be man and wife in a church that we thought we felt loved. What was wrong with that?"

Te'Andrea Wilson said, "I had dreams of having my wedding the way I wanted it, and I also dreamed of having it at the church and unfortunately, it didn't happen."

Her husband said if there was a time to "step up and be Christ-like," it was before their wedding.

"If it was such a minority of people, why didn't the majority stand up and say, 'In God's house we don't do this'?" Charles Wilson asked.

On Sunday, some church members reacted to news of the wedding with surprise. Many hadn't known what happened to the Wilsons until they heard about it on the news, and offered apologies.

"I would say I'm sorry this happened and would you forgive the people who caused it? Because we're gonna try to," Bob Mack told CNN affiliate WLBT.

- CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

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    August 3, 2012 at 10:25 pm | Report abuse | Reply
  3. Ro Wills

    Amazing how people think they can put words in God's mouth and/or speak for God. Does Mississippi still have the lowest scholastic ratings in the nation?

    August 3, 2012 at 8:03 am | Report abuse | Reply
  4. kateslate

    That pastor is a wuss, and I don't actually believe that he got anonymous calls. Who backs down on such an important principle due to anonymous calls? He should have notified the congregation what was going on, and the congregation should then have made SURE this couple got the wedding they deserve. What a cowardly pastor. What an immoral church.

    August 3, 2012 at 12:50 am | Report abuse | Reply
  5. Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things

    Prayer changes things

    August 2, 2012 at 8:53 pm | Report abuse | Reply
    • Jesus

      Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.

      An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.

      The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!-

      August 3, 2012 at 10:25 am | Report abuse |
    • SGT G

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  6. nothing new here

    It is hard to believe that, even in 2012, we are still dealing with this nonsense.
    I hope that these troublemakers are dealt with, and that the pastor of this church will no longer cave in to unreasonable demands from unstable people.
    Good luck to the newlyweds!!

    August 1, 2012 at 8:23 pm | Report abuse | Reply
    • hokieduck

      And in 2032, people will be saying the same thing about marriage equality for gays and lesbians.

      August 3, 2012 at 1:52 pm | Report abuse |
  7. tracy

    The only reason they back-pedaled is because of the news coverage on the church. If they hadn't received any attention, they would have banned them.

    August 1, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Report abuse | Reply
  8. SB1790

    Sounds like they did the right thing. Honestly, I couldn't see the majority of a Baptist congregation (especially Southern Baptist) lobbying to ban a black couple from getting married in the sanctuary. I could see it if they weren't members and never attended the church or if there was something about the marriage that went against church doctrine (some pastors will not marry couples who have not went through premarital counseling or had a previous divorce that the church deems wasn't on legitimate grounds, like adultery). They could have chosen to take up the issue at a Wednesday night business meeting but they chose instead to address the issue on a Sunday in front of the entire congregation. I applaud them for that. Even in Mississippi, asking for the wedding to be moved seemed a little strange. I figured it was a few bad apples and not the majority of the congregation.

    August 1, 2012 at 8:52 am | Report abuse | Reply
  9. Name*penguin

    We'll see how accepting that church is when it allows a black couple to marry in the church AND also allows a black/white marriage. It seems "christrian church" is an oxymoron

    August 1, 2012 at 7:02 am | Report abuse | Reply
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    Man, dat biatch has sum DSL. DIC.K SUCKIN LIPZ!

    July 31, 2012 at 11:33 pm | Report abuse | Reply
  11. Gee

    Ùnbelieveable! is this a church or social club? My heart bleeds!

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  13. Denverboy

    Intresting...realy would they have done there 180 had the media not gotton involved...??? My guess is NO they would have held onto there long held moronic record of No balck Unions in 115 pluse years..A very white Idea Not very Christian .....The DARKNESS that is BIGOTRY cannot claim to be of Jesus or any of his teachings..It can claim to be of Satan and the idea of enslavement to the great LIE...So im not at all surprised this BAPTIST CHURCH started singin a differn tune...Perhaps had they done it on there own it might have MENT SOMTHING MORE

    July 31, 2012 at 9:05 pm | Report abuse | Reply
  14. PAUL

    I WONDER WHY IN 2012??

    July 31, 2012 at 7:40 pm | Report abuse | Reply
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