Keith Bardwell - Justice of the Peace?

Sounds like he's got some 'splaining to do. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in New Orleans' Tangipahoa Parish, has refused to marry an interracial couple.

Bardwell said, "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way. 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."

He continued, "There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage. I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."

So he's not a racist, but there's a problem accepting a child from an interracial marriage?