Choices

Preacher Joe Winters sees trouble ahead when Hank, a young man in his congregation, asks Winters to marry him and his pregnant girlfriend. Winters grows alarmed when he learns that Hank's girlfriend is a Negro. In Florida in 1961, interracial marriage isn't simply frowned upon - it is illegal. Yet the couple insist they want to do the right thing. How can Winters find a way to please both man and God? And if he can't, who will he choose to obey? Laura Ware lives in central Florida. When she isn't writing she enjoys reading and video games.Her column "Laura's Look" appears weekly in the Highlands County News Sun.