The strangest news of today does not involve a six year-old and a balloon. That weird news that played out on national television takes a back seat to the disturbing news that a Louisiana justice of the peace refuses to marry couples from different "races" because of his concern for the children that may be produced from the union. Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace for 34 years in Tangipahoa Parish, claims that he is not a racist. He uses a popular phrase that racists in the 60s used to say to deflect charges of racism, when he argues that he has many friends who are Black. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else." According to a published story from the AP Bardwell asks "everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said." Apparently, Bardwell has not heard of the Supreme Court decision,Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), which in a 9-0 vote ended all race-based laws that prohibited inter-racial marriage in the United States. Maybe the good old boy Bardwell does not care. He does sound as if he is trapped in a pre-civil rights mind set. Bardwell claims that his discussions with blacks and whites have helped him determine that neither group accepts the bi-racial off spring from these unions. First off you incompetent racist, people do not need to get married to have children. Your personal racist agenda of keeping the races pure does nothing to stop people from having children. Also, It seems that Tiger Woods and many other biracial off spring are doing exceptionally well with all groups. It seems that the only repulsion of the children comes from the bigot Bardwell, who unfortunately has the power to not preside over interracial marriages in the parish which he presides over. People can still get married by or...