O.K. The World Has Officially Gone Crazy!

During the course of this past week three issues came to my attention that have me wondering just how ridiculous people will ultimately become in terms of their prejudices, bias and downright contempt for other people...

1) And you thought we had come a long way on the issue of race over the past 50 years. Consider the case of a Louisiana Justice of the Peace, Keith Bardwell, who refuses to marry an interracial couples. Here's the Associated Press release on the story:

AP) NEW ORLEANS A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "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."

Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.

Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.

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

If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said. "I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.


2) How literally do the so-called Bible Believing folk really take the Bible? Or are we now seeing that many of them aren't simply satisfied any longer with being selective literalists, but have decided that being revisionist is o.k. after all? That is as long as the revision verifies their beliefs. Here's the story:

I read in "The Tennessean" newspaper, "Andy Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia.com, wants to save the Scriptures from liberals with his latest venture, the Conservative Bible Project. He says translations like the New International Version have added socialist ideals to the Good Book. But his rewrite of the Bible has drawn criticism from biblical scholars, liberals and conservatives.

Schlafly, the son of national political activist Phyllis Schlafly, says a conservative Bible should be masculine, for example, using the words mankind and man rather than more inclusive language. It also should shun terms like laborer or comrade. It also should put a free market spin on the sayings of Jesus."

3) Finally, 30 US Senators voted against Al Franken's proposal to get rid of an old clause in government contracts, that makes it impossible for someone to sue if they are raped on the job. Say What??? John Stewart picked up on this one on the Daily Show and you can watch his satirical attack here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-14-2009/rape-nuts
It would be funny if it weren't so sad and offensive.


My friends... pray for our land and its people!