Louisiana: Interracial marriage blocked

Looks like the GOP just found a party leader.

Stupid.

I think we need to ban ignorant bigotted rednecks like Justice Bardwell from marrying. You know, for the sake of the children.

Some things NEVER change...

Welcome to Southern hospitality.

My club has an exhibition of A. Lincoln artifacts. In honor of his 200th birthday.

The club was founded by his political supporters in Illinois ("Lincoln men").

Most interesting.

Including an effigy of Lincoln as a black man, with a photographic mask of Lincoln superimposed.

So some things haven't changed since1861.

Or so it would appear.

My god, what is it with these dumbarses in the South? No wonder they vote Republican all the time even when it's against their own well-being.

Has anyone told them this isn't the 1950's anymore?

"My main concern is for the children... I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves...In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer." I don't really think that the GOP is ready to move in this direction. Sounds a lot like pro-abortion.

Wrong Swamp.

Well, at least marriage discrimination isn't limited to same sex couples.

I hope this guy doesn't have any children...or if he does they didn't get any of his backward bigoted genes. I don't normally hope for people to lose their jobs but I'll make an exception in this case.

All I can say is that if that couple does get married - make sure you get a copy of the birth certificate.

"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said, I do the ceremony in the mudroom in back. I don't let them up into the living room like I do the other couples. It's not that we're racist or anything, it's just that we have some nice things in the living room, and you know how thier type is, and well, they make the Missus nervous..."

I just love that this man appoints himself arbiter of what most of black society thinks about anything.

Of course it's for the children. They don't turn out right. I mean next thing you know one of those bi-racial children might grow up to be President of the United States. Or and of the people featured in stories like this one.
http://newsone.com/nation/gallery-mutts-like-us-famous-biracial-people/

Or accomplished athletes like Derek Jeter, or that guy...what's his name? He plays golf. Or the kid across the street, or my son. Nope they all turn out bad so it's good we have Judge Bardwell looking out for things.

I hope someone is working on how to remove Judge Bardwell from office. He'll then have time to go on Druggy Limbaugh's AM Hate radio show to talk about how both of those well known "non-racists" are being mistreated.

This is nearly beyond belief, yet somehow the cons. and Beck will say the couple are the racists and portray the Foghorn Leghorn JP as the caring progressive.

Plus, if they bring a lawsuit it will be portrayed as 'frivolous'.

La. has been a flutter the last couple of days over President Obama's visit and so much of it has an ugly racial tinge. Do I think Bardwell would have denied them the license even without the visit? Possibly, but there's not a doubt in my mind that President Obama's visit has pushed some of the uglier Teabagger type right wing racial prejudices to the surface.

"No wonder they vote Republican all the time even when it's against their own well-being."

It's all about the 'culture war'.

They may lose their health care, clean environment, retirements, decent wages, but by God there won't be no 'he'n and she'n tween the races' on their watch.

Actually, Democrats and Republicans both own this clown. Keith Bardwell was a Democrat until 2008. He is only now a Republican. See http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov/cgibin?rqstyp=comh1&rqsdta=26510100 Neener, neener, neener.

This comment is for ComeAsYouAre...first of all there is no r in the word Dumbasses. Secondly, I am a highly intelligent woman born and raised in Southern Louisiana. There are many stereotypes concerning the south as well as the north. Fortunately, I am not ignorant enough to believe or repeat any of these. You need to remember that we are not living in civil war times. There is no more north vs. south. In every region of the USA there are ignorant and prejudice people like this judge. Don't judge the south by one person!!

"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said.

...mighty white of him. No bias in that good ole boy as he lets the blacks come right into his house.

In the coming weeks I look for Crazy Glenn Beck to make this cretin an honorary Teabagger leader.

Give 'em another hundred years or so. They might come around.

@John W. | October 15, 2009 6:55 PM

Actually, no...

It speaks volumes that a racist, former Dixiecrat a$$hole would be embraced by the GOP in 2008...they weren't exactly attracting any qualified folks to their party and the few with any integrity at all were fleeing like rats from a sinking ship...

Liberman was once a Democrat too, but I guess we do a better job of taking out the trash.

So I guess you must feel great...this is what your pathetic party has been reduced to...embracing rejected Democrats...

Posted by: former Republican | October 15, 2009 7:19 PM
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Shelley,
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I thought you might find this more amusing.
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"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."

This comment is for Amanda:
Do they still teach ENGLISH to you toothless right wing redneck rubes in the south or is that something else they banned??

"•Arse is an English term referring to the buttocks, first recorded circa 1400 (in arce-hoole) and is commonly used in English speaking countries"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:arse&ei=F7fXSs-4GYOCNv-61dwH&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CAoQkAE
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You've gotta love these family values hypocrites.....not. Apparently Bardwell values families, just not interracial families.

That's what gets me about these right wing "family values" nutjobs--they honestly believe that they have the right to define what a family is and isn't.

In every region of the USA there are ignorant and prejudice people like this judge. Don't judge the south by one person!!

Posted by: Amanda | October 15, 2009 7:12 PM
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Really? Then why do you keep electing dumbass racists like this guy to represent you?
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/05/senator-jeff-sessions-who-has-shady.html

ComeAsYouAre, one could also point out that there are Democratic constituencies that vote against their own self-interest.

Take inner-city blacks, for instance. They're a hyper-reliable Democratic constituency, despite Democratic policies that seem calculated to keep them poor and down on the plantation. Here's what Democrats say to that constituency:

- We'll give you welfare, enough to keep you from starving, but also enough to destroy your incentive to go out and get a job that will put you on the economic ladder.

- Oh yes, that welfare won't be enough so that you can come and live on the north shore by us!

- If there's a man in the house, we'll reduce or eliminate your welfare. (This policy, which dates from LBJ's Great Society, has been decried by no less than Daniel Patrick Moynihan as contributing to a permanent black underclass.)

- We're beholden to the teachers' unions, so we're not going to do anything to make them angry. No vouchers so that you can shop around for a better school than the one in your neighborhood. We'll allow charter schools, but only grudgingly and with a cap on the number, so that not everyone who wants to go to one can get in. Our teacher supporters don't like competition, so we're going to protect them from it. This has the side benefit of keeping you ignorant, so you'll continue to believe that we have your best interests at heart.

- The teachers aren't the only ones whose pockets we're in. The labor unions hate Wal-Mart, so we're not going to allow one in your neighborhood, even if it would provide jobs and cheap shopping. We need the union endorsements, and we know that you'll vote for us even if you have to spend all day on a Pace bus to the suburbs to get a bag of groceries.

wow... good thing we called it off, John D.

Posted by: DaveB | October 15, 2009 9:29 PM
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Poor DaveB, if only those damn minorities and blue collar union people would get the hell out of the way so you righteous Reich wingers can continue to let Wall Street run like a casino and the Military Industrial Complex run our foreign policy....:(

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Posted by: TVI | October 15, 2009 7:55 PM
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I'm a Libertarian, dingbat. He's not one of mine. He was a Democrat and now he's a Republican. There are no more Dixiecrats. His attitude was consistent with his brand of being a Democrat. If you folks think Democrats can't be racists, you are wrong.
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Geraldine Ferraro, Come on Down!!
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Live with it.

The south may not be made up solely of the ignorant, but it is sure what they elect, reliably. Isn't the office of Justice of the Peace an elected position? There is a reason why the south has the lowest standard of living, the lowest level of education. It is stupidity. Not ignorance because that chould be cured. Well they had 150 years to get over this nonsense. If they would like to leave the country along with Texas I would be inclined to let them go.

Posted by: ComeAsYouAre | October 15, 2009 8:04 PM
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Uh-uh. “Arse” is a word for buttocks that is in use almost exclusively in Great Britain and the British Commonwealth States (like Australia, New Zealand, and so on). It is not a word commonly used in the United States - except by snooty, wanna-be liberal types.
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In short, you owe Amanda an apology for your rude response. You left-wing twit.
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And, by the way, are you British? If you are, go back to Great Britain, drive on the wrong side of the road, and eat the crappy food there. We want people who speak American English; not British English, buddy.

Interracial couples don't stay together long. Why, I know about this one guy, his mom met this African student, and they were all in love and crap, but then, just a few years later, before the kid even knew him, the dad just up and takes off. The kid had all kinds of identity problems, growing up as a black kid but not knowing any black people, not even as family. Really screwed him up bad.

He's got some crappy job in Washington now - he's on call like 24/7, he has to clean up these huge messes left behind by the last idiot who had the post, and everyone blames him for everything the last idiot did.

He did just win the Nobel Peace Prize, though, so things aren't all bad, I guess...

Posted by: K | October 15, 2009 10:06 PM
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WAAAAAAAAAAAA
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You can't make this stuff up ... in 21st century America. They claim the Bible is clear on the subject, no racial mixing.

Science is clear on the subject. There's no such thing as race, genetically. Maximum mixing of the gene pool in a non-genetically selective environment is the best way to guarantee the genetic health of the human species.

Maximize the Gene Pool!

Welfare is not entirely the problem (cities like money), the problem is that private companies are not that thrilled about investing in the so called inner cities; understandably due to crime rates, or the profile of the type of consumer (deeper pockets) they are looking for that doesn't match the profile income of the surrounding area (or the hostile business environment). The companies that do invest will end up catering jobs that require higher end skills, they end up employing people from the 'brubs who commute (and all this brings in the whole other issue of the quality of education maintained in inner cities). The options then become welfare, minimum wage, or (the better paying) crime (like drugs of course). (It's no secret that people from the suburbs come down to the inner city to get their fix or the better off fund the trade. Deep pockets.) Pointing to one thing won't stop the cycle here, and neither side has a history of being there for the 11 percent of the American population. It would seem that every time they vote, they vote against themselves. They're still behind.

Posted by: K | October 15, 2009 10:06 PM
Posted by: Gillian | October 15, 2009 9:07 PM
Posted by: ComeAsYouAre | October 15, 2009 8:04 PM
Posted by: Bobbie Mobbie | October 15, 2009 8:33 PM
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Fret not, Amanda, for John E does understand. He's the black sheep in his Republican family. That's what drives his OCD hatred. He used to suck at spelling, too, when he first joined the Swamp. He then discovered Word, and with it a grey, rather than black, heart.

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I understand and share the outrage over this story. So consider - Gay couples are not even allowed to ask for a marriage license in most places, where's the equivalent anger over that struggle for equal rights?

There is no need to back track on this country's racist past...we are having trouble with marrying the gays nowadays...lets stay focused.

The saddest part is that I'm not shocked. There are parts of the South that just refuses to let go.

quote from the article: "It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzman. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."

... unless you're gay.

Keith Bardwell sounds like a really old man who's stuck in the past. How old is he? Can't he just be 'retired'? What's with all the anger? The important thing is that his comments sound so out of touch - which means the rest of us have all moved on. That's a good thing.

Notice - this guy was a DEMOCRAT until Obama ran. Had the Dems run a white guy, he'd probably still be a Democrat. Yet any racism and it's the same tired crap from the Left - "OOOOH!!!! He MUST be a Republican!"

The Democrats have an unrepentant KKK member (Byrd) among their ranks. The Democrats continue programs which have destroyed the black community. Need proof? Look at the cities where they've run the show for a long time, like Detroit, DC, and other cities in ruin.

Absolutely LOVING the typical lefty Swampnut response "BLAH BLAH BLAH REPUBLICANS~!!"

Dude's been a Democrat his whole life until last year.

Oh, the cognitive dissonance is just delicious.

Interracial marriages don't work out, in his experience? Did he have one that didn't work out? I've been in one since 1984. 25 years and hoping for many more!

Like miost racists Bardwell finally figured out that The Republican Party was far more in line with his ignoranbt hatefilled world view. He new that the Republicans would have no problem accepting and embracing his open racism.

Oops, forgot one.

- Illegal immigrants are taking your jobs. We say, "The illegals are doing jobs that American citizens won't do," but that's all political doubletalk. The reality is that illegals, who don't have to be paid minimum wage, bid down the price for low-skilled work below what citizens will accept. Not only are we not going to do anything about that, we're going to raise the minimum wage, which will increase the incentive for employers to hire illegals instead of you! And, we're going to legalize those who are here now, so they can stay here and compete with you for jobs forever! After all, they'll probably vote for us!

K, since reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit, I'll boil it down for you:

1. Democratic policies are bad for minorities;

2. Minorities vote for Democrats anyway.

As for the blue collar union types, they seem to be doing a fine job of destroying themselves already, without any help from me.

So he's doing this for the good of their future children? I wonder what his excuse would be for gay marriage?

I think he should have his license taken away and the couple should go elsewhere to get married instead of being in that bootleg town.

Can we all just say "IDIOT".

I see that ignorance and racism are still alive and well in the South. Yes, Mr Bardwell, is a BIGOT, RACIST and a SMALL-MINDED RED NECK. I'd wager there's a 'white robe' in his closet, too! Get over yourself, Sir, it's not up to you to decide who can, or can't, have a long term relationship. You should have been HAPPY that these two adults WANTED to get married. They got married anyway and I wish them many, many years of happiness AND a passle of BEAUTIFUL brown children.
Ignorance and intolerance are alive and well in Hammond, LA...not really a surprise.........some things never change.

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Posted by: thebob.bob | October 16, 2009 1:10 AM
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I am unaware of anything in the Bible that prohibits interracial marriage. Those who oppose interracial marriage have resorted to manipulating the text of the Bible and twisting it out of context to make it say what it clearly does not. But, hey, what’s new?
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And - BTW - there is such a thing as “race” - except that there is only one race. It’s called the Human Race. We are all part of the Human Race regardless of where we came from, the language we speak, the color of our skin, or any other personal feature that people want to use to divide us.

This guy is a joke.

Tangipahoa Parish has another claim to fame: It was the filming location for In the Heat of the Night, the TV show about race and the law.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/not-in-tangipahoa-parish/

I searched on Fox News to get a perspective on what conservatives are saying about this interracial marriage flap.
Nothing!!
One article on the subject taken from the associated press...with no viewer comments allowed
Compare that to the pages and pages of articles and thousands of comments on a Fox News search of "Obama, Nobel Prize"
Seems like the conservatives are keeping a low profile on this one...and keeping their readers from making comments on it that might reveal their "racial opinions" on this.
I guess Fox is hoping this blows away quickly before some of their readers start throwing their support to the justice of the Peace.

Keith Bardwell for President!
Go Mr.Bardwell.......stop the insanity. thank God we have real men like you in the world.congrats for standing up!!

Well, we sure are tolorant these days huh. Someone has an opinion that is not popular with the in crowd and here comes name calling and bellyaching! Cry me a river! The Justice has a good point of view and should be respected.