When A Texas jury set out to decide what to do with convicted murderer Khristian Oliver, the decision was made easier by a supply of Bibles in the jury room with specific passages highlighted. Whoever highlighted them chose words carefully because the jury decided to kill him -- based on their reading of the Bible.
Although the US Supreme Court decided in 1967 (Loving V. Virginia) that the government has no right to tell people they can't marry someone of another "race" the news may not have made it to parts of Louisiana. Keith Bardwell, (who claims he's not a racist) justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward refused to marry Beth Humphrey and her boyfriend, Terence McKay because Terence is "black" and she's not. Actually Terence is no darker than this sun tanned white Floridian, but it's not about that, it's about the "traditional value of not "mixing the races" one finds in the Bible belt and it's about the result of preaching that this is a Christian nation whose law emanates, like the musty smell of unwashed laundry and pious injustice, from the Bible.
Details of the case here:
ReplyDelete“Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)[1], was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, by a 9-0 vote, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.”
The JoP violated the law! Violated a Supreme Court ruling! Violated the couple's civil rights.
Bible belt indeed. There is nothing legal, moral, or Christian about these assholes.
I give more credence to the Tooth Fairy than to the idea that there ever will be a day of divine reckoning, but I sure would love to see the faces of these subhuman apes if it ever happened.
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ReplyDeleteKnow ye not that the Toothsome Fairy shall sit at the Right Hand of the Rex-Father on the Day of Thunder, Blood and Reckoning? There will be gnashing of fangs, yea, and thrashing of tails in the mud.
But I digress -- yes, the Texas case sounds appalling, and so does the Florida case. It really is hard to imagine someone ignorant enough not to have heard that black people can now marry white people. One wonders what other things such an individual doesn't know about....
That judge needs a nice head-slap of a civil suit.
ReplyDeleteI think the guy knows that it's not illegal any more, he's just one of those "Jesus wrote the constitution, so the law doesn't supersede the Bible" (King James Version)people.
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