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		</div><h6><span style="color: #808080;"><em>&#8216;No Gays. No Coloreds&#8217;<br />
“As a child growing up in Mississippi our racial boundaries that were unstated were that of staying with your own race.&#8221; </em>&#8211; Venue owner</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;">Event venue in Mississippi would not host mixed race wedding because of their race and&#8217;christian beliefs&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;">Christian owners of Mississippi wedding venue apologized after reneging on rental to an interracial couple because they said it was against their religious &#8216;beliefs&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;"><strong>Boone&#8217;s Camp Event Hall refused to rent a wedding space to the black groom-to-be and his white fiance </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;"><strong>LaKambria Welch, sister of the groom, paid the venue a visit and posted a video on Facebook of her conversation with a woman believed to be the owner</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;"><strong>The white woman explained that they reserve the right to refuse service to gay and interracial couples</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;"><strong>The venue has now apologized to the couple and posted an apology online, although the couple have decided to marry elsewhere</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3b3b;"><strong>&#8216;I have come to the conclusion my decision which was based on what I had thought was correct to be supported by the Bible was incorrect,&#8217; owner wrote </strong></span></h6>
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<div>The owners of a Mississippi wedding venue that refused to rent to an interracial couple have apologized to the couple.<br />
In a now-viral video <a href="https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1168253908617183232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1168253908617183232&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2019%2F09%2F03%2Fmississippi-wedding-venue-rejects-interracial-couple-christian-belief-apologized%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posted on Twitter</a> over the weekend, the sister of the groom-to-be confronts an unidentified employee at Boone’s Camp Event Hall in Booneville, as first reported by the website <a href="http://www.deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2019/09/01/no-mixed-or-gay-couples-mississippi-wedding-venue-manager-says-on-video/?fbclid=IwAR2pVPF_I4hlfZTr3rCNGvFopZSSzK4Yy49C_YNZ8tyKoNRyYg-RlKup9IM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deep South Voice</a>.<br />
Mississippi State University student LaKambria Welch on Saturday posted video of her conversation with one of the owners of Boone&#8217;s Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi, after Welch said the business had changed its mind about hosting a wedding for her brother &#8211; who, like Welch, is black.<br />
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The now viral video that Welch recorded and uploaded to Facebook on Saturday shows an unidentified older white woman explaining that Boone&#8217;s owner reserves the right to refuse service to gay and interracial couples.</div>
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<div><strong>No gays. No Coloreds: Unchristianly and race biased business practices</strong></div>
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</span><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Question: &#8216;So that&#8217;s your Christian belief, right?&#8217; Response: &#8216;Yes&#8217;. &#8211; The face of a racist: The video shows an unidentified older white woman explaining that Boone&#8217;s reserves the right to refuse service to gay and interracial couples because of their &#8216;Christian beliefs&#8217; </span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Welch, 24, said she suspected the hall&#8217;s operators had discovered the couple was interracial through Facebook &#8211; and she went to confront them in person.<br />
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<span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8216;First of all, we don&#8217;t do gay weddings or mixed race, because of our Christian race&#8230; I mean our Christian beliefs,&#8217; the woman says on camera.<br />
</span>&#8216;OK, we&#8217;re Christians as well,&#8217; Welch replies. &#8216;So&#8230; what in the Bible tells you that -&#8216;<br />
&#8216;Well, I don&#8217;t want to argue my faith,&#8217; the woman interjects. &#8216;We just don&#8217;t participate. We just choose not to.&#8217;<br />
Welch asks her: &#8216;So that&#8217;s your Christian belief, right?&#8217; The woman responds, &#8216;Yes.&#8217;<br />
An apology has since been posted on The Boone&#8217;s Camp Event Hall Facebook page, apparently by the woman in the video.<br />
The post said, in part, &#8216;as a child growing up in Mississippi our racial boundaries that were unstated were that of staying with your own race.&#8217;<span id="u_r_w" class="_56_f _5dzy _5dz- _3twv" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-position="right" aria-label="Verified Page"></span></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The post continued: &#8216;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.&#8217;<br />
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The author of the Facebook post wrote that she spent Saturday and most of Sunday &#8216;searching,&#8217; and after a meeting with her pastor, &#8216;I have come to the conclusion my decision which was based on what I had thought was correct to be supported by the Bible was incorrect.&#8217;<br />
Welch told <a class="class" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mississippi-wedding-venue-cites-christian-belief-rejecting-interracial-couple-then-n1049186?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&#038;fbclid=IwAR0SydhDVimFwJhZtKYlm8vACrldYPHYng22ghk7GrFAvqv1gn6hBbPUiwU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NBC News </a>on Tuesday that she, her brother and his fiancée accept the owner&#8217;s apology and that the couple is no longer planning to get married at the venue.<br />
&#8216;I&#8217;ve stated that I am a Christian as well,&#8217; Welch said. &#8216;So, growing up, my grandmother would always tell me to forgive, even without an apology. I&#8217;ve always lived by that with everything.&#8217;<br />
Welch told NBC that she was upset by the whole episode but &#8216;knew deep down what the owner meant by her &#8220;beliefs.&#8221;&#8216;</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">This isn&#8217;t the first time Boone&#8217;s has allegedly discriminated against prospective customers based on their race or sexual orientation.<br />
Katelynn Springsteen said the venue also refused to service her lesbian friend and her bride-to-be in September of 2018.<br />
&#8216;I was trying to find my best friend, who is lesbian, a wedding venue. I was immediately shot down when I was asked if they were okay with a gay wedding,&#8217; Springsteen said.<br />
A screenshot provided to Deep Voice South shows Boone&#8217;s sending Springsteen a list of prices for its wedding services, but changing its stance after Springsteen asked about servicing a gay wedding.<br />
&#8216;Are you okay with it being a gay marriage ceremony?&#8217; Springsteen said.<br />
&#8216;Thanks for checking with us Katelynn, but due to our Christian faith, we would not be able to accommodate you,&#8217; the respondents replied.<br />
State records indicate Boone&#8217;s is managed by David and Donna Russell, who both live in Booneville.<br />
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In 2016, Mississippi passed a &#8216;religious freedom&#8217; law allowing merchants and government employees to cite religious beliefs in denying services to same-sex couples.<br />
The City of Booneville released a statement Monday in response to the woman in Welch&#8217;s video.<br />
&#8216;The City of Booneville, Mayor, and Board of Aldermen do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status,&#8217; officials said in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday. &#8216;Furthermore, the City of Booneville, Mayor, and Board of Aldermen do not condone or approve these types of discriminatory policies.&#8217;</p>
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‘First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race, because of our Christian race… I mean our Christian beliefs’ – Un’Christian’ly owners of Mississippi wedding venue apologize after reneging on hosting an interracial wedding because they said it was against racial purity and their religious ‘beliefs’
