2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident

In October 2009, Keith Bardwell, a Robert, Louisiana Justice of the Peace, refused to officiate the civil wedding of an interracial couple because of his personal views, in spite of a 1967 ruling by the United States Supreme Court which prohibited restrictions on interracial marriage as unconstitutional. The story was first publicized by newswriter Don Ellzey of the Daily Star (Hammond, Louisiana).

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