Tag: justice of the peace

Thursday Evening News Roundup
ecthompsonmd April 18, 2013

News Roundup I’m traveling today. I have been busy, but I have also been a little depressed. I didn’t feel like posting anything. I was watching the events in Boston and then I was trying to figure out the Ricin thing. I mean, what the hell? Then a factory blows up and basically levels a whole town. Seriously? Oh, Texas has cut their government services (remember, business doesn’t need oversight) back so far that this plant hasn’t been inspected since 2006. Is that date correct? 2006? The Senate forgets its first responsibility, protect its citizens, and holds up sensible gun legislation.

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"Everybody hates me," states judge who blocked interracial marriage
ecthompsonmd October 20, 2009

Nope, I don’t hate you. I think that you’re ignorant and ill-informed, but I don’t hate you. So you got that wrong, too. From RS: Terence McKay: ‘If it wasn’t for interracial couples … we wouldn’t have our president’ 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

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What the heck is going on in Louisiana? (Video added)
ecthompsonmd October 16, 2009

More racial problems. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy From MSNBC: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist. “I do ceremonies for black couples right

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