But don’t worry, he doesn’t give out licenses to any interracial couple. If he did it for one, it would be wrong not to do it for the rest, and, as he says, “I try to treat everyone equally.” That pain you’re feeling is your brain trying to handle dangerously high levels of stupidity.
So apparently this still happens? The judge, Keith Bardwell, says he’s not racist, he just worries to much about any future children the couple might have. Ow! I keep unconsciously stabbing myself in the leg with my pen! But maybe it will sound better if he explains it?
I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves…In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.
Nope, still sounds just as horrible. You can bet the ACLU was all over this little carnival of sadness and barely-concealed racial hatred. So, Mr. Bardwell: you might be worried about those children suffering in the future, but I would say you should be thinking about all the suffering you’ll be doing right here in the present.
(Between this and the balloon boy tragedy, we’re having a real laugh-riot kind of day here at Scanner. Sorry, we promise to get back to boobs soon.)
This made me wonder if the good Judge was upholding some arcane interracial statute. Turns out the Supreme Court settled the matter in 1967 (Loving v. Virginia), striking down antimiscegenation laws across 17 states, Louisiana included. Sick-em ACLU.
After the John Mayer post, I think we’ve reached the tenth circle of douchbaggery today.
Stuckina Parkbench
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Oct 15 09
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6:21 pm
I agree, Stuckina Parkbench. Every time you think you’ve reached the last level of douchebaggery, you suddenly find another one beneath it.
James Brady Ryan
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Oct 15 09
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6:27 pm
The judge is very compassionate. “In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.” Yes, they might suffer the awful fate of becoming President of the United States, like that product of interracial marriage Barack Obama.
toe knee
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Oct 15 09
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6:37 pm
Has anyone ever considered that he may, just may, be right in what he is doing?
kultron
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Oct 15 09
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10:44 pm
No. As mentioned above, it is illegal, full stop (you’d think a judge would know that). But the legal issues are dwarfed by the ethical and moral ones - it’s not this man’s right to decide that two people shouldn’t get married because he thinks multiracial children automatically have hard lives. It’s those people who would make their lives hard, not the potential parents, who should be considered the problem. (Not to mention the fact that they could have kids whenever they wanted to anyway, marriage license or no.)
James Brady Ryan
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Oct 15 09
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10:58 pm
He’s not a judge, he’s an elected “Justice of the Peace”. The only educational requirement is a high school degree or the equivalent (and that’s only as of 2008). Therefore, it’s not surprising that he’d be ignorant of, say, Virginia v Loving. I wish it were surprising to me that he’d be that openly racist.
Roy
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Oct 16 09
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3:03 am
You didn’t mention the best part. He’s also defended himself by saying he has “piles” of black friends whom he lets use his bathroom. I guess that makes everything okay then.
fred
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Oct 16 09
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1:32 pm
I’m a little fuzzy on his logic, couldn’t they have children regardless of whether or not they’re married? Would he rather they have bastard-multiracial children?
Aludarie
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Oct 16 09
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2:20 pm
The logic is not fuzzy, but circular. If the children suffer, it is because of the fact that people, such as the Justice-O-Peace, believe that these marriages are wrong and refuse to accept them. If mixed-race marriages were accepted as normal, the kids would not suffer. I would be angrier except that I have gotten myself totally dizzy trying to follow this logic.
BZ
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Oct 16 09
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3:43 pm
The U.S. Attorney for that district needs to indict this guy for criminal civil rights violations.
ProfRobert
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Oct 16 09
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4:50 pm
you want to know my gut reaction? Please delete if not allowed but I said to myself, the house is full of grand kids…holy shit. I cannot believe this yet with all the crap from the Republican Party and the far right why are we surprised. Please come to East Central Wisconsin, as a retired clergy, I will marry you. Xrxptudy the judge!
Bob Hanson
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Oct 16 09
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9:50 pm
So, since more than 50% of all American weddings (of same race couples) end in divorce, he should not marry anyone. Does he have sufficient frontal cortex to “weed-out” other “mismatched” couples per cause (financial, religious, age, education, child-preference)? Alternately, I recommend with-holding my tax dollars for that sub-par, ignorant state until they do something about the sub-par likes of him. Also, I question whether a certain poster’s parents are still [ever] married and what their[assured] mis-compatibility issues are.
outraged mama
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Oct 16 09
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11:51 pm
If anyone really cared about minimizing the challenges their children would have to face, than they wouldn’t have any in the first place.
Alexis
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Oct 18 09
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11:22 am
You know what I want to see die more than racism? The practice of doing or saying something horrifyingly racist (Yes, I’m sure being biracial does present an array of difficulties I’m unaware of, its still not your fucking decision!!!) and then trying to negate it with, “But I’m not a racist or anything, I have black friends! No one buys it, just be a little more upfront with your hate, okay!
Holly
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Oct 18 09
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2:23 pm
What problems?? This guy is an idiot, I’m a product of several generations of bi/multiracial marriages. He needs to get with the times and stop this shit.
Tiffany
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Oct 21 09
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10:05 am
