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...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
16/10/2009 03:44:53 AM
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What? He seems like a pretty rational guy.
16/10/2009 04:08:36 AM
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Yeah, he DOES have black friends! He even treats them like everyone else! Lol.
16/10/2009 05:15:13 AM
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Yeah. They don't have to crap in the yard. He says they can use his bathroom. *NM*
16/10/2009 03:47:24 PM
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Hell, I have friends who won't let me do that. *NM*
16/10/2009 06:46:37 PM
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To get technical, he doesn't say he lets them... just that they do. *NM*
16/10/2009 07:11:29 PM
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I can't imagine why anyone would want to crap in this guy's lawn... it's a puzzler. *NM*
16/10/2009 08:57:06 PM
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WTF? what is wrong with people?! this makes me wanna pull my hair out! its 2009!!!!
16/10/2009 04:19:49 AM
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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
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aren't Cajuns a mix of multiple races (whites and indians mostly)?? Cajuns ARE Loiusiana *NM*
16/10/2009 05:05:18 PM
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You're confusing Cajuns with Creoles.
17/10/2009 07:28:35 AM
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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
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Wild guess: Civil rights act?
16/10/2009 03:04:58 PM
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Personal freedoms trump that. He was not outlawing or preventing it, just refusing to go along.
16/10/2009 03:34:22 PM
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In this case it might not make much of a difference, but you can't allow it as a general rule.
16/10/2009 03:39:52 PM
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Isn't JP a government position? In that case, his personal freedoms have nothing to do with it *NM*
16/10/2009 03:55:32 PM
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So the officials who obeyed the laws supporting race discrimination were doing good? *NM*
17/10/2009 04:26:13 PM
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the government should just get their fingers out of the marriage business
16/10/2009 05:14:02 PM
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*snorts*
19/10/2009 02:01:01 AM
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A judge is not a private citizen
16/10/2009 05:43:44 PM
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Is it really discrimination? He is not singling out any race, which is what discrimination means...
17/10/2009 04:37:11 PM
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Are you really saying that individuals cannot be discriminated against, only groups? *NM*
17/10/2009 04:46:33 PM
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Um, it seems to me he's discriminating against mixed-race children. *NM*
18/10/2009 03:44:34 AM
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He's singling out mixed-race couples
19/10/2009 04:59:17 AM
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Dear Lord, you really are one of the most special people I've ever known.
16/10/2009 09:40:16 PM
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Psh, everyone knows that mixed-race babies are the cutest, anyway
16/10/2009 05:51:03 PM
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Another argument in support of the judge - cute babies are jerks. Ugly babies are much friendlier
17/10/2009 04:25:20 PM
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Why can't they just go to another JotP? Why MUST this guy cave in?
22/10/2009 11:26:32 PM
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Um. 'Cuz what he's doing is illegal?
22/10/2009 11:28:10 PM
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lol Judging from your response, I take it you didn't even fully read my response title!
23/10/2009 07:51:48 PM
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