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If you and your significant other are planning on tying the knot in Louisiana, make sure you're both the same race.
"Interracial couple denied marriage license in Louisiana" were the first words I read in the paper while eating breakfast last Friday morning.
- Comment on USA: Interracial couple denied marriage license by Sam (globalvoicesonline.org)
Last month, Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell stirred controversy when he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple because he believes that such marriages don’t usually last very long. “I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves,” Bardwell [...]
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Although both Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) have publicly condemned Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell for refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples, Sen. David Vitter (R) has stayed noticeably silent. (ThinkProgress contacted his office, but we did not receive a response.) Blogger-activist Mike Stark caught up with [...]
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Just about the only time we are willing to listen to the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins spill his ideology is in situations like we find ourselves this week, wondering WTF happened in Maine.
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- La. justice quits after interracial marriage flap (charlotteobserver.com)
Last week, Louisiana couple Beth and Terence McKay revealed that justice of the peace Keith Bardwell had recently refused to give them a marriage license because they are an interracial couple. “I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves,” Bardwell said. “In my [...]
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- Louisiana Judge Steps Down Amid Interracial Marriage Controversy (feedproxy.google.com)
- Anti-Interracial Marriage JoP Keith Bardwell's 1-Line Resignation (feedburner.com)
- Louisiana Interracial Marriage-Refusing Judge Keith Bardwell Quits (huffingtonpost.com)
I'm trying to imagine a large and historically significant gay civil rights group appointing an avowed racist as its director. I'm trying to imagine the board of HRC or GLAAD or NGLTF or GLSEN or Lambda Legal appointing a director who opposed interracial marriage or was against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act or was critical of affirmative action. But it's impossible to imagine a gay rights group appointing a racist bigot as its executive...
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