"I have piles and piles of black friends"
Oct. 15th, 2009 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleYou know, sometimes I really lose faith in humanity.
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.
And just in case you think people don't really say things like this.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Because, as Buffy says, nothing says "progressive, forward thinker" like letting "The Other" use your bathroom.
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.
And just in case you think people don't really say things like this.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Because, as Buffy says, nothing says "progressive, forward thinker" like letting "The Other" use your bathroom.
