When Ben Mezzenga approached the altar, he was ready to marry Sara Carton — and overlook their deep political differences. But she had other things in mind.
“I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter. … he was like, ‘I guess I’ve never really thought too much about it,’” Carton said after refusing Mezzenga’s marriage on the show Love Is Blind. “I asked him too, like, what his church’s views are [regarding the LGBT movement]. And he said he didn’t know.”
Mezzenga and Carton met in the “pods,” where contestants date from separate rooms to avoid considering their appearances and test the show’s thesis that “love is blind.” From the moment they began dating, Carton began pushing Mezzenga on cultural issues like gender ideology and BLM. He took the most agreeable and compromising approach a Christian could take — distancing himself from…
