It's ok guys, they use my bathroom

[Demosthenes11]

Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

NEW ORLEANS – A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

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.

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."

If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.

"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.

Beth Humphrey, 30, and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.

Humphrey, an account manager for a marketing firm, said she and McKay, a welder, just returned to Louisiana. She is white and he is black. She plans to enroll in the University of New Orleans to pursue a masters degree in minority politics.

"That was one thing that made this so unbelievable," she said. "It's not something you expect in this day and age."

Humphrey said she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell's wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples. Bardwell suggested the couple go to another justice of the peace in the parish who agreed to marry them.

"We are looking forward to having children," Humphrey said. "And all our friends and co-workers have been very supportive. Except for this, we're typical happy newlyweds."

"It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. She said the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 "that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."

The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice."

"He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said.

According to the clerk of court's office, application for a marriage license must be made three days before the ceremony because there is a 72-hour waiting period. The applicants are asked if they have previously been married. If so, they must show how the marriage ended, such as divorce.

Other than that, all they need is a birth certificate and Social Security card.

The license fee is $35, and the license must be signed by a Louisiana minister, justice of the peace or judge. The original is returned to the clerk's office.

"I've been a justice of the peace for 34 years and I don't think I've mistreated anybody," Bardwell said. "I've made some mistakes, but you have too. I didn't tell this couple they couldn't get married. I just told them I wouldn't do it."

Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. - Yahoo! News

huge troll?

[archibaldcrane]

huge troll?

Naw.

Just another day in the life of the south.

[510Meeze]

I wouldn't let them use my bathroom, but he got the other part right.

[Howard Roark]

they're gonna get divorced in 2 years anyway but that has nothing to do with their races

[Kaylia]

I have ton and ton of _[insert a social class]__ friends , _____[insert insult]______

[Correction]

Katrina didn't destroy enough of that state.

[Zeb]

I wouldn't let them use my bathroom, but he got the other part right.

After 5 years of working with the same people and seeing how they treat the bathrooms at work, I get squeamish about letting anyone use my bathroom.

[Terrestrialrage]

Racist idiots make everyone who lives in the south look bad, but thats only like 50% of them.

[Shenrien]

so.. in order for me to no longer be racist I just need to invite random black people into my house to use the bathroom?

[Pirian]

Fucking racist

[archibaldcrane]

EDIT: Even though THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is mixed race they clearly are at a disadvantage and suffer due to their heritage.

Well, his dad did leave.

Just sayin'

[BRP]

A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Pretty sure you have that same concern for all Louisiana couples.

[Zilong]

Sure, but the guy's argument is that mixed-race children aren't accepted by people of either race.

I didn't know we had elves in the US

[Cream Soda]

Insensitive pricks never think of the children

[Mizango]

Naw.

Just another day in the life of the south.

^

[Mizango]

Fucking racist

It's ok, you got niggas out here like me that take it upon myself to fuck their daughters. So in a round about way even his family members have black in them.

[Xno Kappa]

Slipe wit type digital soup deflect bullets
Black hooded surrounded by forty acres of wooded
Land, like my cousin dusty dirty as dan
Fucked the daughter of the leader of the Ku Klux Klan

- Rza

[Mizango]

Hey I've had that happen. I had one guy here in North Carolina threaten to throw me in his backyard "nigger pit" lol.

[510Meeze]

Why racists are dumb:

Nigger Fucker by David Allen Coe

Play very countrified and redneck as you can!

(notes c,d,e,f)
Intro: (C walk up to the F)/F.../C.../G.../C...

C F
She said someday I'd understand what love was all about.
C G
She said I could have the kids, she was moving out.
C F
Said she finally found a man who's dick was so much bigger.
C G C
Then that scumbag motherfucker ran off with a nigger.

F C
And to think I'd ate the pussy where that big black dick had been.
F C G
And kissed the lips that sucked him off time and time again.
C F
It's enough to make a man throw up. It sure is hard to figure
C G C
how any decent girl ever fuck a crazy nigger.

C F
He treated her just like a queen. She gave him all of my money
C G
It looks like the joke's on me, but I don't think it's funny.
C F
That pussy ain't worth paying for as far as I can figure.
C G C
Because there's nothing quite as worthless as a white girl with a nigger.

F C
And to think I'd ate the pussy where that big black dick had been.
F C G
And kissed the lips that sucked him off time and time again.
C F
It's enough to make a man throw up. It sure is hard to figure
C G C
How any decent girl ever fuck a God damned nigger.

F C G C GC
So for all you nigger-loving whores, this song is just for you.

[Mizango]

This is why Country music is garbage.