Earlier this month, Beth Humphrey (who happens to be white) and her boyfriend, Terence McKay (who happens to be black), went to a Louisiana justice of the peace seeking a marriage license.
The judge's answer? He does not perform inter-racial marriages.
The story made headlines worldwide. According to London's Guardian, justice of the peace Keith Bardwell, who is white, claimed that “he is not a racist." Rather, Bardwell said, he does not “do interracial marriages because [he doesn't] want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. I feel the children will later suffer."
