Keith Bardwell thinks he hasn't done anything wrong

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/interracial.marriage/index.html


Justice stands by refusal to give interracial couple license to wed


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"It's kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven't done wrong," Keith Bardwell told CNN affiliate WAFB on Saturday.

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"I'm not a racist," Bardwell told the newspaper. "I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children." Bardwell, stressing that he couldn't personally endorse the marriage, said his wife referred the couple to another justice of the peace.

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The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out any racially-based limitations on marriage in the landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia case. In the unanimous decision, the court said that "Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."
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there is a picture of him

[Tikki]

1. The man IS racist, fearful and wrong...n/t

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah, mixed race children have it so tough

None of them ever succeed at anything.



Better to indulge prejudice and hatred than try to do anything to get past it, right Mr. Bardwell?

[opihimoimoi]

3. I Really and Truly FEEL down deep in my Heart this dude is a POS ASSHOLE

[imdjh]

4. I think a valid question would be if he has turned down any other couples on his predictions.

Let's allow that he knows or believes that interracial marriages are less likely to last and that interracial children face social rejection.

1- Does this apply to any interracial marriages? Or simply to white women marrying black men?
2- Has he married a white person to an American Indian or ethnic Japanese?
3- Does he refuse to marry exceptionally short people, because their short children will be at a disadvantage according to some studies?
4- Does he refuse to marry interracial couples if neither is white?

[LiberalFighter]

5. Revoke his current marriage.

If he is a widower invalidate that marriage.

[alp227]

6. Is he a closet eugenicist?

If true that might be even MORE scary...he's trying to f up the gene pool!

Seriously, this horrid man is so stupid. I wonder if he slept through the Loving v. Virginia case and civil rights case in general when studying law (probably a requirement for his job).