Posted on 10/17/2009 11:54:04 AM PDT by big truck
NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana's governor and a U.S. senator joined Friday in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law.
Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of the state, refused to issue a marriage license earlier this month to Beth Humphrey, who is white, and Terence McKay, who is black. His refusal has prompted calls for an investigation or resignation from civil and constitutional rights groups and the state's Legislative Black Caucus.
Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a statement a nine-member commission that reviews lawyers and judges in the state should investigate. "Disciplinary action should be taken immediately — including the revoking of his license," Jindal said.
Bardwell did not return calls left on his answering machine Friday. Bardwell has said he always asks if a couple is interracial and, if they are, refers them to another justice of the peace. Bardwell said no one had complained in the past and he doesn't marry the couples because he's worried about their children's futures. "Perhaps he's worried the kids will grow up and be president," said Bill Quigley, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Justice, referring to President Barack Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. Obama's deputy press secretary Bill Burton echoed those sentiments. "I've found that actually the children of biracial couples can do pretty good," Burton told reporters aboard Air Force One as it flew to Texas.
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No, white people should care about it, but I'm not seeing a lot of compassionate conservativism in the threads in question.
How about the fact that many of our cities (and increasingly our suburbs) aren't safe for ANY decent people of ANY color?
Perfectly valid topic for discussion. Certainly more appropriate than making fun of African American names.
You're right, what you're seeing is disgust.
Perfectly valid topic for discussion. Certainly more appropriate than making fun of African American names.
Well, I make fun of silly people and the silly things they do. I don't see any reason to treat silly black people and the silly things they do with any more reverance than I have for any other people.
That's my personal version of equality.
A story yesterday said he recently changed over to the republican party. Fits the lefts MO.You are absolutely right. This guy's an actor playing a part. Probably bribed to do it with Soros money.
This smells of a setup. Who in his right mind gives a flip about interracial marriages anymore? Do we have yet another HOAX on our hands?
I’m probably sure that a lot of what your dad went through was because the war had only been over for a short time. Thankfully your mom and dad prevailed. They had you and did not decide not too have you as these people do now days. I know a lot of mixed race couples who went through a lot of crap, especially here in the states trying to find suitable housing etc around a base from prejudice people. I know that I can honestly look my face in a mirror and say that I grade people on how they act and behave, not on what they look like. Act like a decent human being and I will treat you the same in kind. Act like a complete ass, then expect me to treat you the same way. Good luck.
Me, too -- and then I remember that there are all nature of nutcases and moonbats out there, and this is just one of them.
a little overly sensitive are we?
DU is that way ==============>
We are at war for the soul of America. The radical left — who is very anti-religious (the State is their God) and rabidly anti-Christian — and you decide to quote Scripture OUT OF CONTEXT to imply that before we can fight back against those forces, first we have to ferret out a couple of bigots and reduce them to insignificance?
You are serving as their tool brilliantly. We can't attack any of their assaults on God until we are perfect by our own standards, which can never be, so we can never fight back.
Brilliant.
Leviticus 18:22:
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
Just so that you know, the term “abomination” is just about THE most powerful term that the writers in the Bible used to express God's outright loathing of human behavior.
Ah yes, and that makes this JP's actions perfectly acceptable. </sarcasm>
Pitiful.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of the media in biased reporting of two similar incidents is not justifying either, just pointing out how the media hides racism if from certain people. </not sarcasm>
Hypocrisy would be if Hampton University refused to crown a non-black homecoming queen, not that some of the student body objected. Obviously a majority didn’t object since she won the election.
Actually, she waschosen by a small panel, not the student body, as happened when I was in school.
While what you say is correct, it also cannot be overlooked that lamestream media jumped on the JP, rightfully so, while largely ignoring the racist comments of some of the Blacks over a White Homecoming Queen.
Media bias and hypocrisy is all that was pointed out, not approval of either incident.
Both were racist in nature, yet only one is reported in the so called mainstream media.
Then again, your comemnt on the majority approval of the WHite Homecoming Queen could also be used in the JP case as it seems the majority of Juticies of Peace on Louisiana marry interracial couples with no problem.
The actions of a single JP in Louisiana and the actions of a handful of Black students in Virginia don’t seem that far apart to me.
No let's get this straight. We are "at war for the soul of America." and people are willing to throw that all away and look like racist jackasses just so they can make a few not terribly funny sarcastic comments that are so unoriginal that at least a half-dozen people repeat essentially the same comment every time they appear?
I don't expect perfection but people need to realize that these comments are like feces in a big vat of soup. All it takes is one drop of crap and nobody wants to have any of the soup. Give me one constructive, rather than destructive or simply self-serving, purpose such comment have for the conservative cause.
Just so that you know, the term “abomination” is just about THE most powerful term that the writers in the Bible used to express God's outright loathing of human behavior.
Given that few Christians even make an attempt to follow the vast majority of the laws in Leviticus, including the one that says that catfish, lobster, and crab are also an abomination (Leviticus 11:10-12), I think the more compelling case against homosexual behavior in a Christian context can be found in Romans 1.
As I said, you won’t fight until we are perfect.
That is how the anti-Christians win.
You seem to forget that Christ through Matthew freed us of our dietary restrictions.
He did no such thing for homosexuality.
And, as I said, you are serving as the tool of God’s enemies brilliantly.
No, I'm simply not aware that it's an either-or proposition. I can multi-task and think about more than one thing at a time. Can't you? Improving one's own side is a part of fighting the other side and the point you keep missing is that these comments hurt the conservative side, far more than my complaints do by playing right into the left-wing stereotype of conservative as angry racist white men. In fact, that's all it does since it serve no constructive purpose whatsoever. Would you rather see Free Republic as as a web site that convinces moderates that conservatives are nothing like the negative stereotypes peddled by the left or as a web site that seems to conform every negative stereotype the left peddles about conservatives?
Your reading comprehension could also use some improvement since I pointed out that Paul specifically condemns homosexuality within the Christian context. Frankly, I'm at a loss to understand how homosexuality has anything to do with race.
In which case, "I followed the law" belongs right up there with "I vass just followingk orders!".
It’s a good thing Jesus wasn’t as judgmental and dismissive as you are.
If he had been, he would have rebuked Peter and cast him away for having denied him three times in his darkest hour.
Instead he forgave him and gave him the honor of building the church.
You just go ahead and keep condemning people, though.
In which case, "I followed the law" belongs right up there with "I vass just followingk orders!".
Exactly. Does not mean he should have, just that it could have been his excuse.
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