Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Judge

[DeSwiss]

Source: Huffington Post (AP)

Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Judge

Huffington Post | 10/15/09 04:47 PM | AP


HAMMOND, La. — 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."

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said. "I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves," Bardwell said. "In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer." If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said. "I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Thirty-year-old Beth Humphrey and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint. Humphrey told the newspaper she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell's wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples.

"It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzman. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/interracial-couple-denied_n_322784.html

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- So I suppose he would have denied Governor Bobby a license as well, huh?
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DeSwiss


http://www.atheisttoolbox.com/">The Atheist Toolbox




"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. Big fish, small barrel nt

[DeSwiss]

4. I'm hopin' he's.....

...about to lose his barrel.

- The ACLU don't play that.

[CreekDog]

2. It's not within the judge's authority to deny a marriage license on that basis n/t

[DeSwiss]

5. But he does try to treat everyone equal.

And he's not racist because he said so himself. He even marries black couples in his home.

- What year is this again???

[No Elephants]

108. He's only a Justice of the Peace, not a judge, but NO govt official can deny ANY license of any kind

on the basis of race. That would violate the 14th Amendment of the Consitution of the United States.

As to mixed marriage specifically, Loving v. Virginia covers it.

[Xicano]

3. Sickening.

In my opinion, he should be disbarred from practicing any law whatsoever.

[DeSwiss]

6. At least disbarment.

He must have gotten his law license the same place as Orly Taitz.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. He's likely not even a lawyer - many justices of the peace aren't...

They're elected locally - I knew one who was a farmer - no training in law whatsoever.

[DeSwiss]

11. Well, the Supreme Court....

...ruled in 1968 in Loving v. Virginia, that a state cannot discriminate against interracial couples who want to marry. And I'm certain that upholding the law and the Constitution is part of his oath of office.

- Which he just violated.....

[Dennis Donovan]

16. Yep, they certainly have to swear to uphold the law...

...regardless of their training.:thumbsup:

[No Elephants]

113. Often, they are appointed.

[lobodons]

7. not accepted by society??

He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

Ya, readily not accept to the point of voting one in as President.

[DeSwiss]

14. As if that was even within his perview....

...to consider. He can deny on the basis of age. He can deny if the person does not appear capable of giving informed consent. But basically, if they both have a pulse and they're of legal age, he's got no grounds to deny them a marriage license.

- And while that Napoleonic law down there in Louisiana is definitely different, it still doesn't trump the Supreme Court.

[NOLALady]

21. The offspring of mixed heritage

scares the crap out of him. Hell, one of em might grow up to be President!

Oh Wait....

[Cha]

147. Ye-ah! How damn

biased do you have to be?!

[TankLV]

140. Yeah - EXCEPT for that "SMALL" point, everything he said is "true"...

what a idiot - but he's a REPUKE so what's new...

(I don't know he is - but his beliefs strongly indicate that...)

[NOLALady]

146. Trust me.

We are looking at seriously, knuckle dragging, low class, Repug territory.

[KamaAina]

8. Actually Piyush's wife is also of Indian descent

so Justice* Bardwell would presumably welcome him with open arms. :eyes:

What an ass.

[DeSwiss]

15. I'm sure he'd check to make sure first, though.

[No Elephants]

109. "If you're white, all right. If you're brown, you can hang around. But, if you're black,

stand back."

Americans have long known how to distinguish between people who are "black" and those who are "merely" brown.

[Melinda]

10. Hey, he's just doin' his part to ensure no child suffers as President Obama has suffered...

How else ya gonna keep em down on the farm.... :sarcasm:

Compassionate CONservatism don'tcha know!! :grr:

[DeSwiss]

18. It's the southern white folks....

...that are doing the all suffering because of Obama's birth.

- That's the "suffering" he's worried about.....

[No Elephants]

110. Sadly, racists against Obama are not confined either to "whites" or to the South.

[No Elephants]

117. You're only proving his point. Barack's parents were not legally married and split when he was 2.

Never try to reason with a bigot. Just fling a law book at them.

[Melinda]

148. Actually the sarcasm tag I used was in ridicule of his point, not in support of it.

Nothing reasonable about him, nothing supportive in my response.

Divorce isn't about race, and President Obama, although no doubt affected by the loss of his father in his life, has obviously transcended the 'suffering' this bigoted judge claims as the basis for his denial of a marriage license.

And "Barack's parents were not legally married"? Are you series or did you forget the sarcasm tag?

[KamaAina]

12. GD's been on this for a while

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6784642&mesg_id=6784642

I'd say "go medieval on his sorry a$$", but apparently he's already in the Dark Ages. :eyes:

[DeSwiss]

22. Whoops! n/t

[Tansy_Gold]

13. Someone needs to explain to this imbecile that children don't require a marriage license

Not even in Lou'siana.

And so far, it looks like that mixed-race fella in Washington DC isn't doing too bad. . . . the occasional complaint about his bein' too slow on some issues notwithstandin'. . . . .




TG

[DeSwiss]

29. He probably goes into convulsions.....

...or breaks out in hives, if someone mentions Barack Obama's name in his presence.

[Tansy_Gold]

95. :snort: You're probably correct. n/t

[Vehl]

17. yet another "im not a racist" conservative :)

These people should be kicked back to the stone ages...or sent to live with the Taleban..


The religious right here in the us and the Taliban are almost identical in their worldview!

[DeSwiss]

51. Don't get me started on the religionists. Ack!!!

“I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.” ~ D. Dale Gulledge

[Vehl]

143. Awesome Quote!

I hope u wont mind if i steal it for future use? :P

[Vidar]

19. Disbarment would be an appropriate response.

[DeSwiss]

54. For a start!

[totodeinhere]

87. He might not even be a lawyer though.

In Louisiana you don't have to be a lawyer to become a justice of the peace. So in this case your scenario might not work. He will most certainly be overturned on this one though.

[No Elephants]

111. Is he a lawyer?

[sakabatou]

20. Keith Bardwell should be disbarred

[DeSwiss]

55. And it'd be interesting if someone did a.....

...genealogical study of his family.

- I'm sure he's not as white as he think.....

[No Elephants]

112. Is he a lawyer?

[GirlAfire]

23. Cool. He Allows Black People to Use His Bathroom

Clearly, he's not a racist for that very reason.

EDIT: That reminds me. My mom once worked for a lady who told my mom "I don't treat you like a slave." As if she was going against convention to treat this black person like, gee, a person.

[DeSwiss]

28. Oh he's a racist all right....

...I'm not sure he's aware of it though. And I know about people like the one you described that your mother worked for. I've worked for folks like that too.

- And yep, they do think they're doing us a favor.

[GirlAfire]

57. Seriously!

I believe he truly thinks he's "treated everyone fairly" (or whatever he said to that effect).

Yup, those kind of people think they're doing us a favor by dare treating us like human beings. Ugh, and I hate when people bring up "I have black friends" as if that disproves racism. In fact, that one would bring that up is pretty questionable, at best.

I'm sorry that you've encountered those kind of people before. I haven't (or I don't remember having done so), and I hope you will never again!

[DeSwiss]

60. That was sometime back.....

...when I first moved down south in the 60s. The wounds have healed. But the scar tissue will be there until my cremation.....

[GirlAfire]

63. I Bet

Aw, I just hate that for you and anyone else who's experienced it.

BUT! This solves all things, y'know: :hug:

:D

[DeSwiss]

71. Yes it does!!!

[Politicalboi]

24. I'm glad were beyond that

"The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."
So by that ruling, gay marriage should be legal too in LA.
What rock do these people crawl from.

[DeSwiss]

56. A very slimy rock....

...indeed.

[Bjorn Against]

89. That fact was quoted to an ACLU attorney

The ACLU has been one of the leading organizations fighting for equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples for decades, they did not crawl out under a rock and I am sure the attorney was fully aware of that contradiction in the law when she mentioned it to the reporter.

[No Elephants]

120. Just to keep the record clear, the SCOTUS decided that in 1967.

[No Elephants]

122. Dupe. Sorry.

[NOLALady]

25. Evidently, he never heard of our Huey P. Long.

Rumor has it that he once stated that
"he couldn't understand all the objections to race mixing. From the looks of Louisiana, they've been race mixing for a long time. Why, you could feed all the pure whites and the pure blacks with a pound of red beans and a cup of rice."

[DeSwiss]

58. Exactly.

Which is why I have this love-hate relationship with that city. And have for more than 30 years.

- Cause there's no other place on earth like Nawlins.....

[NOLALady]

81. I see

You know what it means....:hi:

[onager]

106. Another great Huey quote...

This one came out when the Imperial Wizard of the Texas KKK decided Long had a "bad attitude" about race relations and needed to be "taught a lesson."

Long immediately called a press conference in the Louisiana state house and told the reporters:

"Quote me as saying that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana, and that when I call him a son-of-a-bitch I am not referring to the circumstances of his birth, but to his character."

Just in case the Wizard didn't get the point, Long added that if he crossed the state border, he would go back across it with "his toes turned up".

That was probably no idle boast, from the man who nearly called out the Louisiana National Guard to declare war on Standard Oil.

[Odin2005]

150. LOL, Long was quite the character!

In many ways he was extremely progressive for his time and location, but at the same time he ruled Louisiana almost as a dictator.

[HughMoran]

26. Awww geez - this is embarrasing to the nation.

Perhaps someone should remind the bigot of the Presidents' roots :eyes:

[DeSwiss]

59. That'd probably.....

...only confirm his racism to him as being justified, that much more. It's intractable. It only ends at the graveyard, and not even then, really.

- Seeds are always left behind.

[No Elephants]

123. Please see Reply 117,

[sasquatch]

27. I'm not gonna say it

[DeSwiss]

61. Go ahead and let it out.

- We'll all feel better.....

[mdmc]

30. Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

Source: ap

NEW ORLEANS – 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.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff

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time travel IS possible.

[gauguin57]

31. Oh. My. God. What a ... vessel for a feminine hygiene procedure.

This guy needs to have his justice of the peace license taken away.

[MidwestTransplant]

32. He even lets his black "friends" use his bathroom!!! See he isn't racist.

[Berry Cool]

39. I wonder if he has it fully sanitized and fumigated afterward.

And he probably makes them use those paper seat covers.

:banghead: And you know what? I'm sure he thinks of himself as a really enlightened guy, too.

[RC]

42. HIS bathroom or the Guest bathroom?

[No Elephants]

121. Maybe he still has an outhouse on his property. Or saw Borat. Or both.

[LisaM]

33. He lets them use his bathroom? What is he trying to say?

Has he viewed the statistics on marriages in general lately?

[Mz Pip]

37. I'll bet he doesn't

let them drink out of his glasses though. Bathroom is one thing, cups are another. :sarcasm:

[NOLALady]

84. Dixie (paper) cups were invented for that purpose.

[TankLV]

141. The name "Dixie" would suggest those roots...it would be interesting to know...

[No Elephants]

142. The poster must have been joking. (And Mr. Google is our BFF.)

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/dixiecup.htm

[luvspeas]

34. Stunning...

Really. Can he get away with that?

This is unbelievable. I'm heartened by the fact that he lets African-Americans use his toilet. I wonder if he has a sign in his front window?

[No Elephants]

114. No, he can't get away with that, thanks to the ACLU and the law.

Yet another reason to donate to the AClU.

First, they came for....

[Mz Pip]

35. Don't they have

interacial couples in the south? It can't be that unusual.

Hasn't he noticed that we just elected a bi-racial president?

[KamaAina]

38. They do indeed.

I knew two of them right across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

Perhaps an hour's drive down I-55, but a world (and at least a century) away...

[NOLALady]

86. Practically everyone in my family and extended family

has at least one interracial couple. That's the case for many Louisiana families in this area.

Actually, there seems to be more interracial relationships over here in the small towns, than in the city, New Orleans.

[KamaAina]

36. Much, much more here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4105292&mesg_id=4105292

also in GD.

What an ass.

[Speck Tater]

40. "Mixed race kids don't have a chance in this country." Oh, wait. Unless they want to be president. n

[tomm2thumbs]

41. OMG +1,000,000

oh snap!

[slackmaster]

67. Best reply of the day on any subject!

:toast:

[Raschel]

91. And aren't biracial children the fastest growing demographic in the U.S.?

They'll have a lot of company.

[mascarax]

43. What year is this?!

I'm fuming.

[GirlAfire]

45. I am Too

He should be removed.

[PatSeg]

49. 1960 I think

Feels like I just got sucked into a time warp.

[No Elephants]

118. 2009. When did you think racism died?

[demigoddess]

44. God, what an idiot. Not even considering the law, the kids of interracial

marriages always seem to be prettier than each of the races that made them. And a lot of us are mixed race even if we don't know it. I was 30 before I knew I was part Cherokee.

[GirlAfire]

48. Are You Serious?

about the first part, I mean.

[sasquatch]

46. I'm not gonna say it

[Kceres]

47. Why is this man a JP to begin with?

He needs to retire so he can spend more time in his cave. Unbelievable.

[tanyev]

50. Uh...they can have kids without getting a marriage license, Mr. Bardwell.

Lots of people do. Idjit.

[mnhtnbb]

52. They can also get married and never have kids. None of his goddamn business.

[DeSwiss]

62. When you're a racist in the Deep South....

...you get to run your life, the women folk in your clan, and of course all "colored" folks lives on GP.

- It's written in the bible, I think.

[GirlAfire]

66. I Don't Understand That Sign.

LOL

I'm trying to make sense of it. It's that supposed to be "our"? I just can't tell what it's supposed to say. Ooooooh. I understand now. I'm so slow.

"Respect our country. Speak English."

The irony. :rofl:

[DeSwiss]

74. One of those children.....

...George W. Bush claimed he wasn't leaving behind. But he got left behind anyway.

- Until he was too big for those little desks...

[mnhtnbb]

70. They call me "MISTER Tibbs". Let's see, that was 1967.

Conviction of that piece of shit, Byron De La Beckwith, who killed Medgar Evers in 1963, finally happened in 1994.

Times have changed.

[DeSwiss]

75. Even better, the Supreme Court found in.....

...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia">Loving v. Virginia in 1968 that's ILLEGAL for states to deny marriage licenses to an interracial couple. So unless he reverses this decision, he's opened himself and the state of Louisiana up for a passel of lawsuits. and the ACLU is already dead-on-the-case.

- He just stepped in it and has no idea how his stupid life is about to change.

[No Elephants]

126. Please see Reply # 120.

[zbdent]

73. maybe the problem isn't the "interracial" marriages ... maybe it's the

people that hang with you that think like you, "your honor" ...

and maybe they find that they can't stand each other after a while ...

wonder how many of your "non-interracial" couple friends have become divorced, too ... that's not stated in your "evaluation" ...

[No Elephants]

136. Clearly, he has no honor.

He's not a judge, so he is not called "your honor."

[kath]

53. I know we're not supposed to bash the South, but Jeebus H. Christ, when's the last time something

like this happened up north?????
I like in Okie Hell and hate it (not from here, though).

[DeSwiss]

65. Well, I live in the South.....

...and most of the time I wish I didn't. Been here since 1965, but not by choice. Now I stay because all my relatives followed me here. So I won't mind if you cuss Southerners out.

- Deep down, even they know they deserve it.

[kath]

96. I'm stuck in Okie-hell land, and also not by choice.

Sucks ass, it does!

[No Elephants]

115. Racism knows no Mason Dixon Line. It's not about defending the South. It's

about being in reality about the extent of the problem.

I've never lived anywhere but in the liberal Northest, yet I have witnessed lots of racism toward various races. (BTW, I have very white skin, as my all too frequent sunburns prove.)

[Blue_Tires]

64. holy damn...what year is this again??

[GirlAfire]

68. 1923, I believe.

:P

[DeSwiss]

77. A good year....

...for racist judges in the state of Louisiana to retire?

- This wasn't a rhetorical question???

[No Elephants]

137. Please see Reply # 118.

[Anakin Skywalker]

69. So This Assclown "Judge" Assumed

that people are going to have children if they want to get married? Wow! What century are we living in indeed?

[DeSwiss]

80. Well, sho buddy....

...this heah is not only the South, but Loosieanna. Er'body gets married and has a bunch of youngun's down heah. As a matter of fact, pregnancy is the leading cause of marriage down heah.

- Plus, since the Catholic Church runs this state they don't have no other choice......

[sulphurdunn]

72. Paternalistic Racism

"He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society," he said.

This is bullshit. Even most racists accept (or at least tolerate bi-racial or different race children). At least so long as they're children. Hell, that was even true during slavery. This clown of a judge needs some meds in his Mint Julep.

[DeSwiss]

82. It's just as likely....

...that he's always full of Mint Juleps.

- It takes some folks a lot of alcohol to live down here....

[scytherius]

76. Can we PLEASE just go ahead and declare war on the South

and get it over with?

[GirlAfire]

78. NO! Because...

...I'm in AL!

First, you have to take me over to your side. THEN, you can destroy the South. :D

[DeSwiss]

83. Just let me know in advance.....

...so I can put up my shutters and go on vacation before yall get here. I'm thinking Canada would be nice.

- You know, the fall leaves and everything......

[sulphurdunn]

94. I'm all for it ,

but my Southern wife and the southern branch of my family (white, brown, red and black) wouldn't dream of moving up North.

[No Elephants]

125. Please see Reply # 115.

[arthritisR_US]

79. the judge should be disbarred. n/t

[DeSwiss]

85. I'm not even sure....

...he was ever barred to begin with!

- A lot of JP's down South barely finished high school.....

[arthritisR_US]

92. are you serious? I thought all judges had to be lawyers first, wow. n/t

[No Elephants]

127. He is not a judge and judges don't have to be lawyers.

[tanyev]

134. Nope, JP is a pretty low level elected position here in Texas.

In the county where I worked they mostly handled traffic tickets and small claims court. Now that you mention it, it strikes me as odd that a JP would even issue a marriage license. That is done here at the county clerk's office. I guess things are different in Louisiana.

[arthritisR_US]

145. wow, thanks for the info. I never knew and am floored by it. n/t

[Bjorn Against]

88. That judge needs to be removed from the bench immediately

[Honeycombe8]

90. Yes, he does. Judges aren't allowed to refused to sign legal licenses based on

discrimination, which is what that is.

Wow. That is amazing. And amazing he and his wife admitted it. So he's a STUPID judge, too!

He's probably an old coot who doesn't care if he's kicked off the bench (if he has a bench), and he hasn't been able to get his arms around this new world that has grown up around him.

[No Elephants]

128. Please see Reply # 127.

[Bjorn Against]

135. Whether he has a law degree or not he should still be removed from the bench

[24601]

93. The JP must not be up on current events - especially recent

discoveries about Mitochondrial Eve - the individual from which all living people are probably descended. One race - the human race, period.

Too bad he has to refer to 5th grade as "My senior year."

check it out on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

[EndersDame]

97. This product of an Interracial marriage says "fuck you" also on another note

And as an interracial kid I say that anyone who is against gay marriage shares this judge's level of bigotry. This kind of bigotry causes me to be sick in my stomach

[jmm]

98. I'm suppose to believe that a man who wouldn't want me to be born

somehow cares about my well being?

Something tells me he never stopped to think that there's nothing inherently wrong with interracial relationships or their offspring. The problem is him.

[SoxFan]

99. How could the child of a racially mixed marriage amount to anything

[No Elephants]

130. Please see Reply 117.

[NOLALady]

100. I just saw Terrence McKay on the local news.

He is obviously of mixed heritage. Living proof that all mixed children are not doomed.

Let's see...

Bardwell does not want a man of mixed heritage to father mixed children. :freak:

[grace0418]

101. Why is it always those who claim "I'm not a racist" that do the most blatantly racist things?

Who do they think they're convincing? Fucking moron. I guess my husband and I better get divorced then before we have kids and ruin their lives.

[IndianaGreen]

102. I think white people are stupid and shouldn't be allowed to have stupid white kids

I'll raise Keith Bardwell one on bigoted statements.

[DeadEyeDyck]

103. I am bi-racial

my dad is black and my mom is german. My girlfriend is Porta Rican. If we decide to marry, I have decided we will do so in Hammond, La. This shit cannot stand!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

104. I had a clerk deny me a marriage certificate - for a different reason.

The County Clerk's Office wouldn't let me and my hubby file a Declaration of Common-Law Marriage in Bexar County (San Antonio) in 1979. He committed a misdemeanor by not carrying out his statutory duties.

Why? I refused to change my name. I kept asking him "Can you show me where in the Texas Family Code it says I have to change my name to my husband's name?".

Of course he could not do that, because there is no such statute.

I'm not surprised at the asshole population, since this idiot doesn't know about Loving versus Virginia.

[FrenchieCat]

105. As the offspring of an interracial union....I say FUCK THIS RACIST PIECE OF SHIT!

Cause I'm doing just great!

They've got all kinds of racist fools out there!

[Rapier09]

107. Sounds like he is out there

Not particularly hateful or anything,just doesn't keep up with the times.

[No Elephants]

124. WOW! Please tell us you were trying to be funny, but missed.

[daedalus_dude]

116. I smell a judge without a job. nt

[No Elephants]

129. He is not a judge.

[Jeep789]

119. Judge is right. That union could produce, horror of all horrors

a President. We can't have anymore of that now, can we? What an asshat!

[No Elephants]

131. He is not a judge and please see Reply # 117.

[Jeep789]

133. You are right about him being a justice of the Peace and not

a judge but I doubt he considers any union between races (married or not) to be of any value.

[No Elephants]

138. Obviously, he doesn't, but I never said he did. I said only that he is not a judge and that

arguments about Obama's being of mixed are not going to impact his bigotry.

[No Elephants]

132. Just one more reason to donate to the ACLU!

http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FJ_donationhome

The ACLU has been fighting, and continues to fight, for ALL our Conststutional and statutory rights. 14th Amendment? Bill of Rights? Torture? Habeas Corpus? Freedom of Information Act? You name it, the ACLU has been on the right side, AND without discriminating against anyone.

Besides, the Republicans hate it.



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Loving v. Virginia (1967) AND....


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Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

[Deep13]

139. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way,"

:wtf:

Loving v. Virginia. Comply or resign.

"Feel in my heart" is a legal argument? Next time I'm in court with a dead bang loser case, I'll just say that I feel in my heart that children will suffer if the court grants the defendant's motion.

[justiceischeap]

144. "SC ruled as far back as 1963 that the govt can't tell people who they can & cannot marry."

Unless they are, ahem, GAY!

Just sayin'...

[Odin2005]

149. That's disgusting!

Than again, 97% of people my age (20-somethings) are perfectly OK with interracial relationships, so we find crap like this to be INSANE.