Videos shows woman at wedding venue in Mississippi citing 'Christian belief' in turning away an interracial couple; a Facebook post later acknowledged that her interpretation of the Bible was 'incorrect.”
The woman at the venue in the video is not identified. During the under-30-second clip recorded Saturday, the woman tells Welch, “First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race.""Because of our Christian race — I mean, our Christian belief,” the woman says.
Welch then says,"That's fine" and the woman replies:"We just don't participate. We just choose not to."On Tuesday, Welch told NBC News that after leaving the venue, she was"a bit upset, as to be expected, but to be honest," knew deep down what the owner meant by her"beliefs."on Saturday had been viewed more than 2 million times on Twitter and YouTube as of Tuesday morning and prompted calls for the event hall to be shuttered.
The post continued: “My husband asked me to show him in the Bible where it was located as to the content concerning biracial relationships. I studied for a minute and began to think about the history of my learning this and where it came from.”
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