Interracial couple denied marriage in Louisiana

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," [Keith] Bardwell, [justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish] 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."

I think that pretty much says it all.

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Comments

[Los Angelista]

I'm still waiting for one of his piles of black friends to show up on Fox defending him... sigh.

[Dating For Today's Man]

Even in a southern state like Louisiana, people have to realize that times have changed and if they can let homosexual couples marry, surely interracial couples should be allowed to marry with no problem.