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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on October 19, 2009, 04:36:37 PM
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Maybe someone should tell them this judge was a DEMOCRAT until last year. :o
LynneSin (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 06:44 PM
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Justice who blocked interracial marriage: ‘Everybody hates me’
File this one under "No shit, sherlock!"
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/judge-wont-resign /
Justice who blocked interracial marriage: ‘Everybody hates me’
By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Monday, October 19th, 2009 -- 10:01 am
Beth and Terence McKay wouldn't be married today if Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace in Hammond, Louisiana, had his way. Bardwell became the subject of intense controversy last week when he refused to grant a marriage license to the interracial couple, saying he fears for the offspring of mixed-race marriages.
Since then, the Louisiana chapter of the ACLU has called Bardwell's decision "tragic and illegal," and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has called for the justice's license to be revoked. But Bardwell is refusing to resign.
"Despite calls for his resignation, the justice himself says he's not going anywhere, that he's not sorry, and that in fact he's done nothing wrong," CNN's Kieran Chetry reported Monday morning.
Asked by a WFAB-TV interviewer if he was a racist, Bardwell responded: "Absolutely not. My definition of a racist is to hate black people, or treat black people differently than anybody else."
So I guess as long as you 'stick to your own kind' the Judge won't deny you a chance to marry
KamaAina (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 06:47 PM
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2. Well, no, not everybody.
I'm sure David Dukkke, just a couple of parishes down the road, is fine with him.
jaxx (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 07:05 PM
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6. Gee maybe he knows how that couple felt when he gave them the big NO.
Sounds like just another whiney assed winger to me.
burning rain (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 07:16 PM
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8. Bardwell wouldn't have taken the decision he did...
and explained it the way he has, had he not reckoned that it would be accepted socially and politically in his neck of the woods. That's chilling--and I'm sure he based his judgment on observation of majority opinion in his little world. I'm sure he wasn't expecting wider scrutiny--good thing he's getting it.
smoogatz (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 07:41 PM
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16. Because in wingnut-land, racists are victims
of people who point out that they're racists. It's a hate crime!
spanone (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-19-09 08:06 PM
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20. i'm sure the kkk will honor him at some ceremony
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6810725
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You all know this guy was elected as a democrat again and again and THEN pulled a Bloomberg and ran as a Republican under false pretenses, don't you?