"I stand by my decision, and it is my right not to marry an interracial couple."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/17/earlyshow/saturday/main5392367.shtml

WTF??? :wow:

Where the hell has this asshole been since 1967???

As a private citizen yes, he has the right to personally not recognize the union.

But as a civil servant I really don't think you have the right to act in anyway you please.

It's also our right to get him off the bench.

...not required in some jurisdictions.

At a minimum, he needs to be removed from office ~~ he had as a private citizen be the biggest bigot he wishes. He just cannot do that on the public payroll in regard to the rights of others.

...works for me! :evilgrin:

I have a feeling they would attract the same type of clients.

...:rofl:

If you can't do your entire job then you need a different one - like those asshole pharmacists that insist they can't fill a prescription because of some bogus moral reason

...and completely oblivious to the shit storm that's coming his way.

Wow, I can't wait to see him defend his ignorance in front of the cameras...cuz
they're coming for him!

What an IDiot!

...A RIGHT as a public official to discriminate? Jaw dropping stupid...:wow:

for failing to perform your job competently.

So long!

:hi:

If he wanted the right to refuse to marry people he didn't approve of, he should have become a preacher, not a justice of the peace.

The law is not on his side.

... and receive a paycheck.

... and receive a paycheck.

Bardwell, who is caucasian, insisted that he is "not a racist" and claimed to have "piles and piles" of black friends who use his bathroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Bardwell

Holy Mother of Batman ~~ this twit is a pile of fries short of a Happy Meal!

:wow:

...separate rolls of TP?

What a complete and total asshole. He bases NOT being the bigotted pig he is on the alleged fact that he allows blacks in his bathroom?

This man is not only a racist POS, he is totally IN-FUCKING-SANE!

What a douche nozzle. :rofl:

...even during the Bush Admin ~~ does that mean I supported the invasion of Iraq?

:shrug:

A worthless and nasty employee.

You took a oath to uphold the laws of your state regardless of how you or anybody else feel about them--and you, along with anybody else are welcome to try to change them. Meanwhile, you are derelict in your duty and BREAKING THE LAW--and you aren't going to "save" any interracial offspring because YOU DON'T NEED TO BE MARRIED TO HAVE OFFSPRING!!! Louisiana, dispose of this human anachronism AT ONCE!!!!

:mad:
rocktivity

Their reproductive future is none of his damn business. Seriously....

to me, its the same issue as the idiot pharmacists who won't dispense birth control.

that is obviously a threat to their future children :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

...those poor threatened children are gonna be helliciously gorgeous!

Glad to read in other articles that a JP in a neighboring district married them.

Best wishes to them...:hug: :loveya:

They are both really good-looking! I hope they are having a lovely honeymoon and not feeling too stressed about all this nonsense.

Congrats and best wishes to Beth and Terence! :toast:

Hope they are having a great honeymoon! :hi:

Terrence seems pretty well balanced. Yet, he is obviously a product of multi racial heritage. But, this idjit JP thinks Terrence will have imbalanced kids. :crazy:

Or he has his head so far up his XXX that he has not clue what decade or century he is living in.

:wtf:

...we thought that electing President Obama to office represented "change," and it DID, but...

...we were then "shocked" to see the racist banter being tossed around by the GOP. We were "shocked" that homophobia might actually be worse than we thought it had been all along.

There are people in the world who would deny you an equal share of what is due to you because of your skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation...

...what did the election of Barack Obama to office accomplish in the way of CHANGING that?

"Jack Shit."

What it accomplished is that the people who are committed to change (as opposed to pissing and moaning about what they want but do not have) now have a President who is ALSO committed to change, rather than taking vacation after vacation after vacation on his Crawford Pig Farm.

Change is gradual. In the eight years of Bush-Cheney, NO ground was gained in the areas of race or sexuality. Oh, Cheney's loud-mouthed asshole daughter had the opportunity to call John Edwards a "motherfucker" for acknowledging her secual preference, but that's about it. If someone is Gay-Lesbian-Transgender-Bisexual-etc and they have Mary Cheney as a poster child, that's a problem in and of itself. She's a foul-mouthed, angry, loudmouthed asshole. Being a lesbian doesn't change that.

Change is not given.

Change is fought for.

Let's fight with our President, and fuck this "I won;t marry an interracial couple" asshole.

When Barack Obama leaves office, people in the South wil still be wearing sheets.

Not ALL of them.

SOME of them.

He does not have the ability to make that go away. It's older than the world.

Let's do the best we can, with the President WE elected.

:patriot:

That includes issuing marriage certificates to anyone legally allowed to marry. I hope this ass gets fired before gay marriage becomes the law of the land.

"Bloom also took note of President Obama being the product of an interracial marriage, wondering of Bardwell, "Has he had any kind of basic awareness of who our president is?"

Ummm, the unrec patrol is on the prowl. I guess I wouldn't want my dirty laundry aired in public either.

...his awareness of Obama probably underpins his decision to not allow for any more bi-racial children. Cuz ~~ gasp ~~ we could have more elected officials how are not pure white!

I cannot believe this asshole JP thought for 2 seconds he could get away with racist bullshit like this ~~ based on caring about the children??? What a load!

NAILED THAT FUCKING RACIST BASTARD!!!

I hope others who have been denied speak up too.

This racist bastard deserves what's coming to him. :grr:

I hope he loses his job and license to practice law FOREVER!!!

~~ which I am sure he does with 100% efficiency.

As a public servant? He has less than -0- right to break the law and thereby discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, etc.

This fucking bastard should. at least, be fired immediately, and get whatever else federal and state authorities can throw at him.

Man, this shit MAKES ME FUCKING MADDER THAN HELL!!!!!!! :grr:

...I have very, very close friends who are an interracial couple ~~ he is black and she is white. They are like my children ~~ in fact they often call me "mom." Their child, of course, is bi-racial and since I have no actual grandchildren of my own, she is in my mind my grandchild. I could not love her any greater if in fact we were biologically related. She is a straight A student, a cheerleader, college bound, bright, polite, funny, caring and intelligent. Where does this POS JP get off basically saying it was bad for her to be born???

:mad:

Did you see the coverage on Channel 6 last night?

They interviewed one of the townsfolk who said in his best Southern drawl,

"I'm not prejudiced. But ah shore wouldn want one of 'em marryin ma daughters."

As if anyone but his cousins would want to marry one of his daughters.

Dumb fucking pharmacists refusing to sell the pill to people with prescriptions, so called pro-life morons terrorizing doctors who perform abortions, etc.
Time to rein in these fucking lunatics. Apparently they are all above the law.

Oh those slippery slopes the reichwing starts us down.

...the other serves the public health. Real similar to me and essentially the same. All of these rights are based on the Const protected right of privacy.

for this racist judge.

It would serve the assh*le right.

...but while I was reading about this on the Internet, there was one article which state that he has refused 4 time ~~ I am not sure if this current refusal is included in this number ~~ to marry interracial couples.

Why has it taken THIS MANY OFFENSES to have some outrage? Unbelievable!

the prevailing attitude in that area that they were not outraged.

and you EXERCISE that right by resigning from your public office. It is NOT your right to deny others their rights while a public servant.

"He's a religious man who is following what the Bible says. God says not to mix races and I sure do wish young people would listen. I have mixed grand-children,all who have times come in crying because they were tormented by the other children. People of mixed races who marry don't care about what their children will have to go through."

I think he made the last sentence up to defend his moranism.

...false claims of trying to protect children... to justify bigotry.

:puke:

Maybe that's why this seems so absurd to me. Even the idea of denying basic civil rights to groups I don't like too much, such as Mormons, disgusts me.

I have many relatives that are half Native American (Ojibwe). Nobody cares. I really don't understand this crap, I really don't.

If God said mixed marriages are wrong, then I guess Moses didn't get the memo.

These fuckers are crawling out of everywhere these days.
It is not his right - he must obey the law. :puke:

I suspect they're figuring out how to remove him now, and someone will file a complaint next week to do so.

is that every interracial couple who wants to get married should beat a path to his door.

As others have pointed out, we have a wonderful President who is the child of an interracial marriage.

Maybe that's his objection? He's afraid of allowing another great Democratic President to be born?

I would be very surprised if it weren't a crime under either Federal or State law to refuse to marry a couple of the grounds of their race, but given that there are states that only recently decriminalised homosexuality, it wouldn't utterly amaze me, and I wouldn't trust anyone but a legal specialist either way.

He certainly *oughtn't* to have that right, but that's not the same thing as saying he doesn't.

Supercedes state laws, and has for over 40 years.

But without consulting a legal expert, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that there are loopholes, e.g. that an individual refusing to perform a wedding is not covered by a ruling about a state forbidding weddings.

Given that he's acting as an agent of the state, I would be surprised by that, though.

So yes, I think you're almost certainly right. I would just refrain from 100% confidence in matters of law without consulting a professional, face to face.

http://www.laaclu.org/newsArchive.php?id=352#n352

"ACLU Legal Director Katie Schwartzmann, in comments to the Associated Press this afternoon, said, "It is really astonishing and disappointing at any time, but especially in 2009. The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry on the basis of race."

She's clearly presenting it in her capacity as a spokesman, not as a lawyer.

If the same person were to present a similar but more detailed(particularly with reference to specific laws and cases where they were tested) opinion in the context of a legal brief rather than a press statement, though, then yes, that would be exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

The ACLU presenting a press statement is enough to make me think it very likely that this is illegal (actually, it's not even necessary - I could guess as much myself). The ACLU or anyone else presenting a formal legal statement and other lawyers being reported as mostly agreeing rather than disagreeing would make me think it even more likely. Nothing short of Barwell being convicted and his appeals failing (which I think is likely to happen fairly soon) will make me 100% certain, though.

before he will want to spend quality time with his family.

First it was women-hating pharmacists refusing to full out a prescription for birth control. Now it's this. Fuck this crap.

all the bigot needs to do is RESIGN and then he won't have to perform any marriages, interracial or otherwise.

ANY justice of the peace can say here's your license (complying with the law), BUT, I am unavailable to actually perform the ceremony, due to a prior commitment ( shifty, but complying with his own twisted beliefs, while not technically breaking the law)

This idiot has an agenda..and he thinks he's above the law, and so far has gotten away with overt racism

his own idiot behind.

Hate!