In Baton Rouge Tuesday Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace who has been elected continually to serve the citizens of the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana since 1975 and was not slated to end his current term until 2014, resigned.
The catalyst for Justice Bardell's resignation,reported in the Associated Press. stemmed from his actions last month when "Beth Humphrey, who is white, has said she and her now-husband, Terence McKay, who is black, received their marriage license from the parish clerk of court, where they also got a list of people qualified to perform the ceremony. When she called Bardwell's office on Oct. 6 to ask, Humphrey said Bardwell's wife told her that the justice wouldn't sign their marriage license because they were a 'mixed couple' "
It was never right to refuse to marry two people in love no matter what their pigmentation furthermore it has been illegal since 1967.
Justice Bardell did keep getting reelected, for decades, in the district 55 miles north of New Orleans. That gives me pause.
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