At last, some good news

Okay, so the less said about the results of last night’s NJ gubernatorial (I do love that word, though) election, the better. But in a followup to something I mentioned last month, Keith Bardwell, that loser justice of the peace who refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, has resigned his post. The couple that he refused to give the license to, Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, are still going forward with a federal lawsuit that they brought against Bardwell.

Are you serious? You can’t be serious!

There once was an awful point in American history, when people who loved each other could be prevented from marrying one another because they were of different races. This went on until the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia that all race-based marriage laws were unconstitutional. But everything old is new again, right? We’ve got sports teams in throwback uniforms. Throwback sneakers. Pepsi Throwback. And now we’ve got throwback racist marriage policies.

I guess arguing over gay marriage got boring or something, so Tangipahoa Parish justice of the peace Keith Bardwell decided to do his part to prevent miscegenation by refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. I kind of feel like I know where old Keith falls on the gay marriage question, but is this just not a traditional enough kind of marriage for him? We’ve got one man and one woman. I thought that was the magic formula! I guess God just forgot to use the same crayons when he was coloring them in.

I find it interesting that Bardwell, who has held the elected position of Justice of the Peace since 1990, was a Democrat for his first three terms. Only in 2008 did he run as a Republican. Hmmm…what changed in 2008?