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Pastor Bars Interracial Marriage
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910815
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A pastor canceled plans to perform a wedding after he found out a white woman was marrying a man of mixed race.
The wedding, which was scheduled for Saturday, is hurriedly being shifted to another church in the area.
"I can't believe this happened," said Angela Marie Harms, the bride-to-be. "My invitations are all wrong. It's a mess. I never, ever in my whole life have heard something like this."
Harms, 21, and her fiance, Brian Michael Storm, 20, were told Tuesday that the Rev. Samuel Butler of the Wesleyan Methodist Church refused to perform the wedding. Storm's father is black, his ...
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