Justice Who Denied Interracial Marriage Refuses to Resign
Submitted by DeepDiveAdmin on Oct 18, 2009
The white justice of the peace in Louisiana, who refused to marry an interracial couple, told reporters he has no plans to resign. Louisiana's governor and a U.S. senator are joining the call for his ouster. The Associated Press reports:
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The JP didn't deny the marriage , he refused to perform the marriage himself, thusly; he didn't deny any civil right etc.. they are married.
The only question; has he violated any law ; the answer, more than likely not!
He may have breached a canon of ethics !
apparently he is confused that the couple doesn't require his consent to have sex .
It is his option as to who he marries, not your, mine or ours!
He is bound to treat people equally. He cannot simply arbitrarily decide who he will marry and who he will not. You are wrong to think so. Try looking up the 14th Amendment. Unless one of the partners were already married, the judge has no grounds on which not to issue them a marriage license, if he issues them to other couples. This would obviously be inequitable treatment. What if he decided redheads don’t make good marriage partners because he was divorced by one. Would you allow that he had the right to deny redheaded women marriage license.
Timexx, you seem to misunderstand the nature of civil marriage . It is a civil right which is supposed to, by law , be available to all citizens, regardless of race or skin color. Read Loving v. Virginia, and you will find that civil authorities do not have the right to deny civil marriage to citizens on the basis of their respective race.
I stand in error, I thought you were addressing me, in the fervor I failed to see you were addressing Timexx.
However; my error doesn't change the facts.
As a former member of the bar in three states and the Dominican republic and a law practice of over twenty years... I guess I just don't understand and need mentoring from some loonie on the internet !
I see you claim to be an attorney. I'd think you'd know better, then.
failed to understand his complaint was he was worried about interracial kids . It's irrational considering they don't need his permission to have them ...
And it appears that you are applying he is immune from criticism, if you believe an elected official is immune from criticism from their decisions - I hope you enjoy China!
An additional side note, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that instead of being a racist he might just be a moron who hasn't realized that it's been decades since sane people cared about interracial children and there are no negative consequences.
If he truly believes that there are negative consequences to being interracial, he should show them.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.