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16

What Does This Have to Do With Gay Marriage?

Filed Under Race, iQreport 

Update (4:55pm CST) November 3, 2009: CNN reports this Louisiana JP just resigned.

Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace says, “I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves . . . In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.”

The Louisiana judicial code of conduct states: “A judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice.” If that’s really the case, then why are gays and lesbians still being denied marriage rights, a denial fueled by religious bias and prejudice?

An interracial couple gave the gay community their full support last weekend at the march. They were an immediate hit. They stood still forever while people snapped pictures of them. They get it. They understand that the battle for gay marriage rights is similar to the same battle interracial couples fought for years. Denying a person marriage rights based on bias or prejudice is wrong – no matter who or what that person is.

I know many in the Black community (both gay and straight) will be angry that the gay community will compare the Louisiana case to the gay community’s battle for marriage rights. I also understand that our allies in the Black community are plentiful and they’ll agree that denying any two consenting adults the right to marry is indeed unethical.

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