Comments on: I Will Not Officiate a Black and White Couple Wedding

By: Rene Compton

Rene Compton — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:09:45 +0000

Good Lord when will this race hating ever stop. This crap get’s old and should not be tolerated. Let them get married…who cares?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:13:25 +0000

He should have refused to marry them because the groom is short and ugly. Of course this relationship won't last.

By: Monica Ester

Monica Ester — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:34 +0000

i cant believe he is thinking like that. i believe more same race marriages dont last as long as interracial marriages. i feel that is unfair. interracial marriages should be acceptable

By: Ummmm

Ummmm — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:19:39 +0000

How is refusal to officiate their wedding going to save their children pain? They don’t have to get married to have kids. Having a marriage certificate does not determine the type of parents they will be. It is simply a contract made between two adults that whereby they SAY they will be faithful to each other. Unfortunately, most people don’t honor this contract, nor do they stick with it anymore. Divorce rates prove that.

By: Mike Hulsey

Mike Hulsey — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:40:16 +0000

Bardwell is right in his statement that they don’t tend to last (then again, neither do most marriages these days – but interracial marriages suffer far more in that department than normal ones). He is also right in his concern for any children born of this affair.

Studies have shown that children from interracial couples suffer from identity problems among other social woes, not to mention the obvious medical difficulties of finding appropriate donors should a medical problem occur or an accident happen. Any parent that would subject their child to that shouldn’t be a parent at all.

Also not mentioned was that interracial marriages end in violent homicide 7.7 times more than normal marriages.

Bardwell is not discriminating, as he won’t marry ANY interracial couples. The ACLU should be defending him, not the couple.

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:58:35 +0000

Tangipahoa Parish has another claim to fame: It was the filming location for In the Heat of the Night, the TV show about race and the law.