Interracial couple denied marriage license

[Zylstra]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

 

[pocketfullofshells]

I hope you can step back for a moment. I did not mean to make any statement about you character.

I never thought you made anything up or that you made a fake quote. I said so right away that you must have used another source.

But because your other source used almost the identical words as the OP and since you did not provide a link many of the readers would think that you were quoting from the OP. Then they would think I was wrong when I said that we (we here on this thread who were reading the OP) did not know the race of the judge. You knew the race but the rest of us did not.

go back to post 11 and see if did not imply that I should have read that quote and known the answer. I could not have read the quote you put there because it was not in the OP. You brought it in after the fact and did not provide a link.

One might think that you expected my to assume that your quote was from the OP and that I missed the obvious fact.

Lets just call it a miscommunication, no harm no foul. I guess since I read the report in the paper copy at work, and then one online as well before the thread, I assumed the reverse, that they actually put that piece of info in there like the others had. Had it not, but still had the Black Freinds part, I still would have known though.

 

[Dr.Who]

Lets just call it a miscommunication, no harm no foul. I guess since I read the report in the paper copy at work, and then one online as well before the thread, I assumed the reverse, that they actually put that piece of info in there like the others had. Had it not, but still had the Black Freinds part, I still would have known though.

Works for me.

Friends?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I could hardly believe this one. Are we stuck in a time warp or something? This is like something out of the pre civil rights south.

Nope....the RNC Playbook.....​

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Works for me.

Friends?

yep its all good

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"A Louisiana justice of the peace who drew criticism for refusing to marry an interracial couple has resignedhttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/03/louisiana.interracial.marriage/index.html, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.

Keith Bardwell resigned in person at the Louisiana secretary of state's office, said spokesman Jacques Berry. The state Supreme Court will appoint an interim justice of the peace to fill Bardwell's position, Berry said, and a special election will be held next year to fill the position permanently.

Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward, refused to perform a marriage ceremony for Beth Humphrey, 30, and her boyfriend Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond, Louisiana, and sign their marriage license. The two were married by another justice of the peace.

Bardwell, speaking to CNN affiliate WBRZ, said he was advised "that I needed to step down because they was going to take me to court, and I was going to lose."

"I would probably do the same thing again," he said. "I found out I can't be a justice of the peace and have a conscience."

How 'bout that.....Bigotry is the result of a hyperactive-conscience.

"Got a bad case of hyperactive-conscience?? Ask your DOCTOR about an Oxy-cure!"​