Having spent some time in Hammond, this is not all that much of a surprise.
I am daily stunned at a whole host of bigoted positions that remain visible right here on FR, so much so that I am no longer amazed, just saddened at what will happen to our republic of conservatives cannot get their heads sorted out and fly straight.
I’m actually quite interested to see reactions here about this. FR is a totally wonderful place, but I’ve seen a couple weird threads (including an interesting one a year or so back about the sons of Noah - enough said). Sorry to say this, but I am certain there will be some who will be in agreement with that man.
This is a complete scam. The man just recently changed to the republican party. Nothing wrong here.
And yet, not a whimper out of the lamestream media over Nikole Churchill, recently crowned Homecoming Queen at predominantly Black Hampton University in Virginia facing the scorn of many Black Students.
http://www.dailypress.com/wtkr-miss-hampton,0,6521092.story?track=rss
Sorry to disappoint the trolls and bigots who look to find racial hatred in conservatives like me, but I don’t give a rat’s patootie about race.
ps. What does that title mean? ‘Many angry man’?
Actually they’d better check...he may have upheld the law. Some of those old laws are still on the books.
So this guy is ‘elected’ claims he has been making this judgment for long time and word is just now getting out? This guy has been active for 34 years. Now the story does not say how many licenses he has rejected over his career.
So why has there not been any complaints registered, made public, or all .ell broken out until now? I AM NOT complaining there is finally a complaint, I do not understand how this action could take place over such a long period of time without any complaints.
It is not the responsibility of a justice of the peace to predict the future fate of offspring. He is not elected to be a marriage counselor. Whether he likes interracial marriages are not, he is obligated to preform the marriage rite according to state laws. If it bothers him to officiate interracial marriages, he should never have accepted the position. I have my personal opinions about interracial marriages, but one has to realize the differences between acting as an arm of the state and one’s personal opinions.
Funny how people only define interracial marriage as black and white. I remember in the Army, there would be people who turned their noses up at black soldiers married too white women, but never said a word about a black OR white soldier married to an Asian woman, etc. If not married too your actual race and color, it basically becomes some type of interracial marriage. Knew lots of white GI’s married to Asian type women, I.E. Korean, Japanese, Thailand, and native Alaskan, Turkey, Arab, etc.
He claims that interracial children often have troubled upbringings. I agree that they have it so hard, the farthest one can aspire to go is President of the US, after all.
My wife’s most striking features are her hazel/green eyes against her dark mocha skin. A genetic quirk on her mother’s side of the family that goes back to an interracial relationship over a hundred years ago. Nothing new about interracial relationships. This guy has to get with the times.
Imho the JP has his personal views and the Letter of the Law cross-wired. If he doesn't want to do it, he should have recused himself, and sent the couple to another JP's Court, and not shown his ass backwards bigotry in 2009.
Flames Up...........bring it on....
I am honestly puzzled by the entire concept of hate based on skin color. There’s only ONE race involved here- human.
Now- if there is a TRUE ‘’mixed-race’ couple on this planet it would make BIG news.
Until there is a human/ something else factor- it’s ludicrous.
And this guy is an ignoramus. Entitled to his opinion-yes, but since when did a marriage license- or the lack of one- prevent interracial babies being born?
They should have just gone to another judge.
As a white man, I am too.
His defense of why he made that decision was equally stupid. It is 2009, he needs to get out of public office.
Bardwell appears to be a moron, it’s amazing they rise to such positions. He would make a lousy conservative or liberatrian and I bet he’s been voting democrat all his life. Bet he keeps a picture of Lester Madox on his desk...
You find a lot of racial hatred in Democrat Party strongholds. Isn’t Tangipohoa Parish a Democrat Parish?