This one hits kind of close to home, and makes me happy me and my husband eloped to the Cambodian temple for our wedding. Via the Huffington Post, news from down South…
HAMMOND, La. — 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. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
I think Bardwell suffers under the delusion that his role is to judge couples and hand down a ruling on whether they should get married.
Myself, I deserve the zipped lip award, because when I worked in Woonsocket and couples would come to me to draw their premarital blood tests, not once did I scream–‘Run, run for your life!’ Having read some of their charts I was thinking that. But I had enough sense to know that it was none of my business.
When you want someone to tell you whether to get married you go to a priest. Then you do whatever you were going to do anyway.
It just amazes me that Bardwell isn’t even apologetic. He can fool himself, but everyone else can see through him. It’s prejudice, nothing more.
Kmareka.com 
I sometimes have those thoughts too about whether people should get married, have children, etc., but I keep them quiet unless I am really being asked. What a weird JoP.
If I could just figure out how to get paid for being opinionated I’d be rich. But more often it’s my job to keep my opinions to myself.
How you get to be a judge when you have such lousy judgment must be a local story.