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Dear Lord, you really are one of the most special people I've ever known. everynametaken Send a noteboard - 16/10/2009 09:40:16 PM
"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."


Maybe McKay wants his future offspring to be president. You can't get that if their mother is black.

Seriously though, the ACLU needs to put a sock in it. No one should be made to facilitate something he is opposed to because of his beliefs, no matter how ridiculous. This is America, and you have the right to both enter into an ill-advised, short-sighted marriage and to refuse to participate in one. This is WHY these things go before a judge, instead of having an automated program rubber-stamp it automatically. We can deplore his reasons, but it is good to see he is taking his responsibilities seriously. The ACLU claims he is breaking a law, but there is no citation of which law he IS breaking. Though I would not refuse to marry anyone on those grounds, It is in the rights of the judge to do so, and if it is not, perhaps some standards of responsible journalism need to be applied to the author of this piece, so he can inform his readers exactly what law requires a judge to decide a certain way.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
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Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. - 16/10/2009 03:44:53 AM 902 Views
What? He seems like a pretty rational guy. - 16/10/2009 04:08:36 AM 461 Views
How are mixed race children treated in Louisiana? Here, nobody under the age of 60 could care less - 16/10/2009 05:19:49 AM 454 Views
I was thinking the same thing. - 16/10/2009 06:41:07 AM 436 Views
aren't Cajuns a mix of multiple races (whites and indians mostly)?? Cajuns ARE Loiusiana *NM* - 16/10/2009 05:05:18 PM 176 Views
There really are not that many Cajuns Loiusiana - 16/10/2009 06:12:07 PM 402 Views
There are a fair amount. *NM* - 17/10/2009 07:25:21 AM 157 Views
thats what i thought *NM* - 19/10/2009 07:24:05 PM 158 Views
You're confusing Cajuns with Creoles. - 17/10/2009 07:28:35 AM 395 Views
a coonass is a coonass *NM* - 19/10/2009 05:00:39 AM 156 Views
careful buddy, thats almost like saying a nr is a nr - 19/10/2009 07:28:34 PM 454 Views
Tru' dat. *NM* - 19/10/2009 09:51:10 PM 178 Views
Depends on where you are. - 17/10/2009 07:30:54 AM 394 Views
That's just absurd. *NM* - 16/10/2009 06:46:39 AM 171 Views
Some unions are opposed because they can't breed - but here the ability to breed is the problem! - 16/10/2009 11:37:34 AM 639 Views
Wild guess: Civil rights act? - 16/10/2009 03:04:58 PM 454 Views
the government should just get their fingers out of the marriage business - 16/10/2009 05:14:02 PM 429 Views
*snorts* - 19/10/2009 02:01:01 AM 478 Views
LOL, ironic eh? - 19/10/2009 07:38:14 PM 566 Views
Uh, no dude. - 26/10/2009 03:33:33 AM 486 Views
you're a sick sick girl-- i LOVE it *NM* - 27/10/2009 04:11:26 PM 262 Views
seems like a very liberal stance to me - 27/10/2009 04:55:14 PM 363 Views
A judge is not a private citizen - 16/10/2009 05:43:44 PM 420 Views
Is it really discrimination? He is not singling out any race, which is what discrimination means... - 17/10/2009 04:37:11 PM 496 Views
He's singling out mixed-race couples - 19/10/2009 04:59:17 AM 576 Views
Good call on the minors - 19/10/2009 08:29:44 AM 533 Views
Yeah, that's a good analogy - 19/10/2009 03:55:23 PM 402 Views
Dear Lord, you really are one of the most special people I've ever known. - 16/10/2009 09:40:16 PM 442 Views
Re: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. - 16/10/2009 03:54:10 PM 419 Views
Why can't they just go to another JotP? Why MUST this guy cave in? - 22/10/2009 11:26:32 PM 447 Views
Um. 'Cuz what he's doing is illegal? - 22/10/2009 11:28:10 PM 368 Views
lol Judging from your response, I take it you didn't even fully read my response title! - 23/10/2009 07:51:48 PM 434 Views
I did, actually. - 23/10/2009 08:39:19 PM 388 Views

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