Is this 2009?
Pelican State ping
He has a point about bi-racial children having it harder in society- but it’s getting better. Also he is ASSUMING that a lack of a marriage license means no kids...uh, how many have kids first and never bother wanting to get married?
His denial of a license based on his OPINION is illegal- and stupid. If he’s worried about the difficulties bi-racial children face let him work to help the ones who are here. Kids have no say in who their parents are, and I doubt that this incident will cut the birthrate.
What? I amazed this is still happening in the United States in 2009. Hey LA give them the dam license. It sounds like the 1940s all over again “hey your irish you can’t marry that italian”.
What a moron! Good friends of mine, an interracial couple, have been married over 20 years.
Okay, I’m not saying I hold his opinion. I have VIPs in circle of influence who happen to be bi-racial and have always called me Nana, and I love them, these grandchildren, dearly.
My question/comment would be that does he not have the right to personal opinion/conviction - just like ‘pro-life’ doctors who refuse to do abortions - to refer them to another JOP to marry them?
I wonder if he’s only against black/white marriages. What about white/asian? Etc?
Now, THAT’s racist! Someone should send this to Jesse, Al, and Skip as an example of what real racism looks like.
....”I didn’t tell this couple they couldn’t get married. I just told them I wouldn’t do it.”
....now we’re getting down to it....after all the sturm und drang from the ACLU and others, here is the real issue:
Does this JP have the RIGHT to refuse to marry them?
...here’s who can marry people in Louisana
“Any ordained or licensed clergymen who have registered with the clerk of the district court of the parish or with the health department if in New Orleans, and justices of the peace.”
much depends on the language of the law...big difference between whether a JP “may marry” two people of “shall marry” two people.
Exactly, what is in this J.P.’s geological history? It makes you question just how many branches there are on the tree. However, Kentwood is Britney Spears’ Home town, if that helps to explain.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,”...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.”
Yeah, you are a racist! Moron.
Good lord! Someone needs to slap this fella into the present day. I guess there’s still a few folks like that out there. Whatta ya gonna do?
Throw in our home being foreclosed on, my 50 yr old Husband getting cataracts 3 mons after we had to drop health insurance, a dead in the water building industry and it's fun times around here! Oh, and Hubby and I both have the flu.
Not exactly where we thought we'd be 23 yrs ago when we married, and some encouragement from our families would be appreciated, but it's all about skin color. Had they encountered problems when they went to the courthouse for license and ceremony I may have gone postal!!
So? Who appointed this guy to be God. It's none of his damned business.
But we do elect them president!
Somehow I doubt this thread is going to be showing up in any liberal discussions of Free Republic.
Course, it is true that in Louisiana, half black kids aren't treated well. They will most likely grow up washing dishes instead of POTUS.
I would understand if the judge didn’t want to perform the marriage, but to not sign something after the couple was already legitimately married is crazy. That’s his duty.