Judge refuses marriage license to interracial couple in Louisiana

Atreus21

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HAMMOND, La. (AP) - A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.


"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said. "My main concern is for the children."

I don't know what the hell to make of this. I'm in New Orleans. 3 months ago I married my wife, who is Vietnamese (I'm white). If the Catholic church can handle it, I don't see why this guy has trouble.

I don't honestly think this guy is a racist. I simply think he's projecting statistics onto specific people, which I would call unfair.

Are there any examples in recent history of a judge refusing to marry a couple? Regardless of race?

Also, does anyone know what 1963 SC case the ACLU is citing when they said it ruled that the government cannot dictate who you can and cannot marry? I'd like to look at it.
 

Harvey

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Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper

I wonder if this guy will get disbarred.

A justice of the peace is not necessarily the same thing as a judge. In any case, he should be tossed off the bench for being a jackass who doesn't know the Constitution from toilet paper.

I don't know if the judge is a member of the bar. In California, judges are required to resign from the bar when they become judges.
 

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
http://www.breitbart.com/artic...BBNUJ80&show_article=1

HAMMOND, La. (AP) - A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.


"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said. "My main concern is for the children."

I don't know what the hell to make of this. I'm in New Orleans. 3 months ago I married my wife, who is Vietnamese (I'm white). If the Catholic church can handle it, I don't see why this guy has trouble.

I don't honestly think this guy is a racist. I simply think he's projecting statistics onto specific people, which I would call unfair.

Are there any examples in recent history of a judge refusing to marry a couple? Regardless of race?

Also, does anyone know what 1963 SC case the ACLU is citing when they said it ruled that the government cannot dictate who you can and cannot marry? I'd like to look at it.

Sounds like a racist to me. Children my ass.
 

Harvey

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Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: DealMonkey

Wow, I guess racism is all but wiped out in America, eh?

Show me where there isn't racism. We arent alone.

As long as you're not saying that excuses the JOP's action.
 

Phokus

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Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it?s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, "It?s your money, not the government's money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That?s right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It?s too easy, asshole, they?re blue states. It?s not your money, assholes, it?s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let?s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It?s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that?s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that?s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we're-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you're ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that's ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we're fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you're fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that's a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don't talk about religion as much as you because we're not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you're too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain't us up here in the North, assholes.

Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

And no, you can't have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.
 

nageov3t

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I don't see the problem here, it's perfectly legal for them to marry someone of their own race.
 

cubby1223

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I'd push to get this justice removed, but not because of racism, rather on the grounds of stupidity.
 

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
http://www.breitbart.com/artic...BBNUJ80&show_article=1

HAMMOND, La. (AP) - A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.


"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said. "My main concern is for the children."

I don't know what the hell to make of this. I'm in New Orleans. 3 months ago I married my wife, who is Vietnamese (I'm white). If the Catholic church can handle it, I don't see why this guy has trouble.

I don't honestly think this guy is a racist. I simply think he's projecting statistics onto specific people, which I would call unfair.

Are there any examples in recent history of a judge refusing to marry a couple? Regardless of race?

Also, does anyone know what 1963 SC case the ACLU is citing when they said it ruled that the government cannot dictate who you can and cannot marry? I'd like to look at it.

Loving v. Virginia

This should be the case they're referring to. The case was brought in 1963 but was decided in 1967. Due process for fundamental rights (marriage).
 

Phokus

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Originally posted by: cubby1223
Originally posted by: Phokus
Originally posted by: cubby1223
Originally posted by: Phokus
http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

wow, *that* guy is proclaiming himself to be the moral one? :roll:

You don't own that domain yourself, do you?

Moral or not, he's just telling the truth. Fuck the south.

You need professional help. You are even worse than the people you demonize.


Yeah, i'm the one who's blocking interracial marriages with my judicial powers :roll:
 

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$5 says he's a registered Republican.