It's 2019: and, tiresomely, heartbreakingly, in some parts of the world homophobia and racism are still alive and well. Imagine planning your wedding with your future partner, going to book the venue and being told that you can't hold your wedding there because interracial relationships are against 'Christian beliefs'.
This is the astonishing experience [LaKambria Welch had](http://Boone's Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi) when she confronted the owner of Boone's Camp Event Hall in Booneville, Mississippi when they wouldn't host her brother and his partner's wedding in the event space.
In a video that has circulated on Twitter, the owner can be heard to say 'First of all we don't do gay or mixed race weddings' when questioned by Welch. She adds, 'Because of our Christian race, I mean our Christian beliefs, we just don't participate. We just choose not to.'
Although it's not really relevant (discrimination is discrimination plain and simple: it doesn't really matter what part of a religious text it's been interpreted from), you're probably wondering exactly which section of the Bible forbids interracial marriage?
This is the next question that Welch asks in the video, to which the owner of the venue replies, 'I don't want to argue my faith.'
Since the video has been posted on social media, the owner has apologised in a lengthy post on the (now removed) Boone's Camp Event Hall Facebook page, citing her upbringing as the reason for her beliefs. The post acknowledges the 'ignorance in not knowing the truth about this' and states that the couple have now been invited to use the event hall (we're guessing they're going to pass).
The City of Booneville also issued a statement re-affirming that they do not discriminate 'on the basis of race, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.'
