<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5899c1d-7755-4e38-b9bf-f39cbf6f21f2/486D7E4C-A2D8-44F8-8954-B3D3A7F707CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/">A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/2005C56F-F5F7-4056-9D19-E49DD02D59A7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Keith Bardwell, who is white, quit the post with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="14258864">Secretary of <NOBR id="itxt_nobr_1_0">State<IMG src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" name="itxt-icon-77" /></NOBR></A> Jay Dardenne and no explanation of his decision: "I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, effective November 3, 2009."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Gov. <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="14253225">Bobby <NOBR id="itxt_nobr_2_0">Jindal<IMG src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif" name="itxt-icon-77" /></NOBR></A> called Bardwell's resignation "long overdue." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Bardwell refused to perform the ceremony for Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay because they are of different races. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33609707/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>When questioned about his refusal, Bardwell acknowledged he routinely recuses himself from marrying interracial couples because he believes such marriages cause harm to the couples' children. 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