According to the Huffington Post, a Louisiana justice of the peace declined to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. The justice, Keith Bardwell, said he was concerned about children the couple might have down the road.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them like everyone else.”
Bardwell said whenever a couple calls them about marriage, he asks if they are an interracial couple, and if they are, he will not marry them.
He says he came to the conclusion that the majority of blacks and whites don’t readily accept children of interracial relationships.
“There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,” he said. “I think those children suffer, and I won’t help put them through it.”
Beth Humphrey and Terrence McKay, the couple involved, plan to look into filing a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Justice Department.
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Jamie
