Read an article in today's Maui News, and I couldn't believe that this is occurring in the U.S. What year is this? 2009, right? Although this didn't occur in Hawaii Nei, the idea of someone exerting their personal beliefs and refusing to marry a couple because you didn't like the fact that one is black the other is white is really appalling. Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana judge, refused to marry an interracial couple citing in his "experience, interracial marriages do not last long." According to Bardwell, his decision not to marry IR couples are because the children produced by these marriages are not accepted in the black community nor the white community, and in the end, it's the children who suffer. Why bother being a justice of the peace if you can make conditions like this? Bardwell should surrender HIS license rather than perpetuating this kind of racist thinking. I'm of the belief that marriages should be between two people who are committed to each other and who are willing to be lifelong partners rather than unions dictated by the color of one's skin. In addition, I think children from IR marriages benefit society from being multicultural/multiethnic if raised to embrace and tolerate differences among people. Bardwell would crap if he found out he carries the gene which can be traced back to Africa. I guess he hasn't heard about National Geographic's project: Genography which is making such claims about our human race.
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