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 Update: La. Official Quits After Interracial Marriage Flap Author: AP Source: MSNBC Title: LA. OFFICIAL QUITS AFTER INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE FLAP A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday. Keith Bardwell, who is white, quit the post with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne and no explanation of his decision: "I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, effective November 3, 2009." | |
| Community Thoughts: There are 11 comments posted | Reverse Sort |
| Convictions | Nov 5th. at 5:40:20 pm EST |
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Joey (San Francisco, California) - Email Me - Web At least he has the courage of his convictions. You must stand by what you believe, what ever that may be. ) o ( |
| ***** | Nov 4th. at 12:32:38 pm EST |
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me At least, he did the appropriate thing. I just hope he can find a job that better befits him. |
| I Seen This All The Time | Nov 4th. at 10:51:30 am EST |
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Angel Fire (Claremore, Oklahoma) - Email Me We live in the 21st century where this type of marriage happens all the time. Unfortunately, I have seen that type of biggotry here in Oklahoma all the time, not just from our elected officials. It is sad, but unfortuately it is a fact of life. Not everyone is as open-minded as we want them to be. The only ones who could change the biggots in this world is the biggots themselves. They may have been raised to hate those who are not of the same color, race or ethnicity they are, but they are the ones who choose to believe what they hear. |
| *sigh* | Nov 4th. at 8:20:29 am EST |
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Figlia della Luna (New Orleans, Louisiana) - Email Me This whole story made me very sad. I'm often reminded how very different the whole South is just outside of the Orleans Parish line. Honestly, I don't see this sort of thing happening here in New Orleans, but this was on the North Shore, which means it's very much in the old, Bible-Belt South. Here in the city, mixed couples and people (adults and children) are practically everywhere, and have been for centuries. It's to the point that it hardly matters to anyone. One of my closest friends readily admits that she had a black grandmother, but is also Irish. She's the tannest Irish girl I've ever met! And she's beautiful, what I like to call Irish Creole. |
| Needs To Ad. | Nov 4th. at 4:43:33 am EST |
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me I forgot to include on my second line. There's plenty of other preachers who would be willing to marry mixed couples. Especially when the only color a lot of them care about is the green in the couple's wallet. |
| Some Side Thoughts Here. | Nov 4th. at 4:38:30 am EST |
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me Since thsi guy was a justice of the peace, he works for the state... hence, does fall under the descrimination laws and needs the book thrown at him. If this guy was a preacher then I believe he should have the right to his beliefs and ability to marry those he wishes and those he doesn't. Often one of the arguments in the gay marriage issue is: "They did the same thing to mixed couples" which is then rebutted with "Those people were born that way, gays are not." But what's the difference? A mixed couple "chooses" to be together. It's not like they were born only with an inability to love someone of the same race. (Hey pro-gay marriage people, I'm making a point you can use here... wink wink) I heard this man's argument at to why he declined to marry mixed couples and I can see his logic. I'll explain - I had a band mate who was black. We talked a lot about the whole races and junk. Even had a few laughs poking at each other while on tour that I would love to tell but there's not enough room. The thing that relavent to my point is he was lighter skinned then me. When I first met him, I thought he was half and half. But he explained to me that both his parents were full black. But his mother was very, very pale. He told me that growing us was tough, not just for him, but his whole family. He told me his father would get called a "sellout" and his mother a "N---ah lover". He and his siblings would get picked on by both whites and blacks in the same manner. All this just because one parent, who was African descent, looked white. While times have changed over the last twenty years since he went to school, by what I see in the American pop-culture, I suspect it still goes on much the same. |
| Good Riddance | Nov 4th. at 3:23:50 am EST |
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me - Web [Web LINK] Dr. W. A. Plecker, Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Virginia, who has been the principal leader in the recent movement to secure the enactment of the so-called Racial Integrity Laws by several states, has compiled the accompanying table showing the present status of legislation in reference to the legal limits of intermarriages between the white and colored races. (Eugenical News, 1929) [Web LINK] Alabama, Virginia, and Georgia are the states with former "one drop" racial purity laws against negro marriages with whites. Despite those laws generally having been flushed or banned 40-50 years ago, they to this day are why in Virginia there are no Federally recognized Indian tribes. It's about time remaining scum like this now former JP got flushed expeditiously. They cause far more prolific harm than most people realize, over many years and places. Louisiana was on the "second tier" that classified very little negro/other blood as restricted from miscegenation, whereas 18 mostly Northeastern states never had such laws of the 40 states in that era. |
| Yeah, Good. | Nov 3rd. at 10:40:40 pm EST |
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Kristybeth (Milton, Wisconsin) - Email Me It's hard to believe that in this day and age, somebody would still be thinking like that. I'm glad he resigned, but I think he should have been immediately censured or kicked out. |
| Good. | Nov 3rd. at 9:24:46 pm EST |
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Medea (Somewhere, Massachusetts) - Email Me I don't see this guy as being any different from the radical pharmacists who won't fill birth control pills or other women's reproductive prescriptions. If he isn't going to do his job without smearing his bigoted beliefs all over people, he shouldn't be in that profession in the first place. |
| I Second That.... | Nov 3rd. at 8:49:19 pm EST |
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Jeanne Lisbet (Calgary, Alberta) - Email Me If you don't want to do your job, you shouldn't expect to remain employed. |
| ... | Nov 3rd. at 8:05:02 pm EST |
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web Buh-bye. |
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