Jeremy Thompson Catholic PhD in Biblical Languages, Programmer, Runner

I posted last week that I reside in the parish in which a judge recently refused to perform an interracial marriage.  I thought I would give a couple links to what the locals are saying.  HERE and HERE are links to two opinion pieces in our local newspaper The Daily Star.  The really odd thing to me in all of this is that interracial marriage between other groups, say Hispanics and whites (I can think of two instances of this within my family and my wife’s family), seem fairly common and accepted.  But, when it comes to African Americans people in the community are still trying to act like the last 50 or 60 years never happened.

So, I just realized this idiot judge who would not marry an interracial couple is in my hometown.  And, according to Jim West I should stand in front of his office with a sign and demand his resignation.  Chances are he won’t be in tomorrow though.  And, chances are I won’t be able to get leave from work to do that any day next week.  But, I feel I can rest assured we have some very good people in office here in Tangipahoa Parish who will handle this situation appropriately.

Shamefully, racism is still alive and quite well here in South Louisiana.  And, it is alive and well among religious people many of whom are probably nodding their heads along with everything that this moron says.  It is just sad that these people are too stupid to realize things like Jesus was Jewish (i.e. not a white American of Jewish descent), along with just about every other major religious figure in the Bible after Abraham.   Not that this should matter that much really since no one derives their dignity from a religious text.    But, in the area in which I live one would assume that people would at least allow their religious texts to inform their thinking (though this assumes that they have the ability to think at all of which I am not convinced).