"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell 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."
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."
If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.
Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.
Beth Humphrey, 30, and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.
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When a Justice of the PEACE suddenly decides to declare a WAR on the constitutional rights of the very people he has sworn to represent, one is prone to start asking questions. Weird questions like is this some kind of conspiracy theory? Is the judge just trying to play God, or is there a central movement towards curbing the rights of Americans as enshrined in the American constitution? Is there a conservative movement towards reducing the many freedoms that Americans have been known to take for granted for so long? Like the freedom of association for example which is being turfed in the garbage by the actions of one judge. Or is it just one judge?
There is the lame excuse that an interracial marriage will hurt the children of such a marriage. What the judge is trying to let us know seems to be that this marriage is doomed to failure from day one. I bet there is a lot more that he knows and is not telling anyone, because he is also giving a hint that he can see into the future. So, either the good judge is a psychic and a very good one at that, or he has access to policy formulation documents that outline the future direction of American affairs.
This is the year 2009, the progress of humanity at all levels of activity is way beyond this type of shenanigans. If animals can be cross bred for attaining a superior quality of meat for food, or to participate in sports, why can't human beings naturally cross breed for better purposes. Or is there a quota on the percentage of those who are allowed to breed higher levels of intelligence?
There has to be several thousands of happily married inter-racial couples out there, so what difference will one more make? The Klums just had their fourth healthy baby and have been happily married for a a long time. They are in the public eye, and it does not seem as if their children are developing any weird symptoms or being hurt by the marriage.
Mr. Justice Keith Barwell ought to reconsider his position on this one. It does not matter if he has 100million black friends lodging at his home every weekend, his objective as a Justice of the Peace is to serve impartially, all and any kind of case that comes across his table. This is his mandate. He cannot concern himself with the personal lives of his clients.
Life is a cycle of events that goes up and down as the case may be; he cannot make himself an accessory to events that will negatively affect others by trying to make them alter their chosen paths. He cannot give a dog a bad name, just because he feels like eating dog meat tonight, or any night.
Many kinds of marriages broke down everyday of the week, throwing the children into a state of despair. I do not think there is any concrete evidence to suggest that Inter-racial marriages fall into any particular pattern. And even if there is, it is not within the powers of any one person to decide who or who should not get married.
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