This is however not the case at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississipi, Unites States of America where the church refused to conduct a marriage service simply because the couple are blacks.
The couple had booked their wedding far in advance. The invitations had been sent, the programmes printed. But one day before Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson were to be married at the Mississippi church they frequented, they said a pastor told them they would have to find another venue -- because they were black.
There has never been a black wedding at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., since its founding in 1883. According to Pastor Stan Weatherford, some church members objected so strongly to breaking that precedent, they threatened to oust him from his pastorship, ABCNews reported.
Rather than risk his job, Weatherford, who is white, said he decided to marry the pair at a black church down the road.
Weatherford told WLBT-TV in Jackson that he would have liked to marry the couple as planned, but he decided to perform the ceremony elsewhere as a compromise to ensure that the Wilsons could be married while "addressing a need within our congregation.
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