Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License!
This is unacceptable! It's 2009!
An interracial couple was denied a marriage license from the justice of the peace of Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana. Now there is a demand that Keith Bardwell step down from the position. Patricia Morris of the local NAACAP chapter says:
"He's an elected public official and one of his duties is to marry people. He doesn't have the right to say he doesn't believe in it. If he doesn't do what his position calls for him to do, he should resign from that position."
Apparently Bardwell's reasoning for refusing to issue the marriage license to Terrence McKay and Beth Humphrey was that in his experience interracial marriages do not last and he worries about the couple's future children. He insists that he's not racist:
"I'm not a racist. I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children."
We call BS and his behavior is completely racist!
Morris has said that she has forwarded the case to the statewide and nationwide levels of the NAACP. Good!
Love is love, people! Marriage should be for everyone!
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Re: rovena28 – first off, before you or any other person in here gets all preachy…africans are the ones who started the slave trade. when the 'new world' was being founded, it was african kings that were making mega bucks by selling their own people on the coast to wealthy kings all over. yes, i agree that slavery and the holocost were terrible things for the people who went through them to endure…however, it is time to get over that shit. all of the racial feelings come from people feeling as though they are owed a huge debt by society because this happened…you dont hear american indians being crazy about this shit and they have the right to complain too…
and as to him being fired….he does not work for the county/city/state…you yourself can get a license to be a justice of the peace…it is a personal business and i think that he has the right to have an opinion. rather it be right or wrong. dont forget that the whole debate here is over rights and freedom and he has the right to have freedom of speech.
In Louisiana, I'm sure he readily marries more questionable potential parents.
Belief in how the children will be treated in or outside the home is not a legal basis for denying a marriage.
I guess the JP is saying the divorce rate for white couples in Tangapahoa Parish is 0%.
absolutelyyyyyy disgusting! Interracial love forever!!
that just messed up. even though im not married, ive been in interracial relationships and everything was fine. my first love is not the same race as me, and sometimes i wish me and him had a child together
Re: jessinlou – Could you please stop generalizing? Thank you!