Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

[Rev.Reverence]

Exactly. I feel that it's one thing to ask a church official to perform your marriage ceremony and have them deny you. That's a personal belief system, and their job is essentially their beliefs. A government official is not supposed to turn people away from a marriage, especially based on race. I don't support his bigotry, nor do I support the government telling people who are of the same sex that they cannot marry.

Like I said, if it's a church official, he should have the right to say that he will not do it based on his personal and religious beliefs. And I would not want a pastor/priest/whatever to perform my marriage ceremony if he didn't support it. But a government official shouldn't have that right. They want to take religion out of government, then your personal beliefs should have NOTHING to do with your job, no matter what they are.

Exactly.

...the only reason that a Justice should EVER even say ANYTHING to two candidates for marriage...should be, about- age, moneys, & are they thinking on the same page..... still, this is JUST to bring it up for them to think on...he CAN NOT refuse a couple that is legally allowed to marry in that state.

...& for the record...a couple's skin pigment has not as much to do with divorce, as does getting married at an early age...MOST (I think it may be all, but, I have not seen many for a long time) of the peoples I know, that got married in their teens to early twenties, are no longer together.

[darknight1]

Exactly.

...the only reason that a Justice should EVER even say ANYTHING to two candidates for marriage...should be, about- age, moneys, & are they thinking on the same page..... still, this is JUST to bring it up for them to think on...he CAN NOT refuse a couple that is legally allowed to marry in that state.

...& for the record...a couple's skin pigment has not as much to do with divorce, as does getting married at an early age...MOST (I think it may be all, but, I have not seen many for a long time) of the peoples I know, that got married in their teens to early twenties, are no longer together.

Speaking of current affairs...what do you all think about that balloon boy hoax out in Colorado? My opinion here: stupid.

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Speaking of current affairs...what do you all think about that balloon boy hoax out in Colorado? My opinion here: stupid.

...There's a whole 'nother thread about that one... -.-;;

[Shade Everdark]

This troglodyte and Orly Taitz should get together.

It would be the 'divide by zero' of both stupid and racist.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

update: Judge Bardwell resigned a few days ago.