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  • I don't think people see the true agenda for interacial propoganda. PLEASE WAKE UP.

  • HALLY BERRY?  KEITH BARDWELL, FUCK OFF AND LET US ALL MARRY!

  • Im a lightskinned blue eyed hispanic (mexican background) dude dating a white girl, is that interracial? :/

  • Of course Cenk is in a mixed race marriage..would that rule include the mix of a Turkish man and Chinese American woman?

  • get your banjos!

  • Yeah, the interracial kids do suffer. From chronic hotness.

  • The reason why they get divorced faster is because racist jerks in society put so much preasuer on them and badger them so much......just my opinion

  • this is ridiculous u should be able to marry any monkey u want

  • @TheEricleeparker I believe you should be able to marry any human you want, but even I draw the line at monkeys.

  • @MsLilithJS if you draw the line at monkeys. How would anyone marry you?

  • My husband and I have been together for 13 yrs he is a black man I am a white woman we have just gotten married if our relationship has wrked for years without us being married  why will it not wrk now that we are married

  • my child is half white half guatemalan. my boyfriend is black. wtf... i love all the crayolas in the box!

  • @hblakely992 why isnt your child being raised by his father?

  • @topherh33 He spends an equal amount of time with the both of us

  • I have a problem with that because I like light skin black girls!!!

  • By the way the statistics are that black and white unions last more frequently. Interracial couples last longer because they have to make two commitments, one to love each other and also to live through and suffer the ignorance of others together. They have to UNDO their own social training. Racism disguised as religious knowledge has been a problem for centuries.

  • AT LAST, someone with some common sense in America. Keith Bardwell, kudos to you :-)

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  • hey that rhymes^^

  • being a kid of mixed race, I want to punch that official square in the face!!

  • I wonder how he would feel about a gay interracial couple... he'd probably whack 'em over the head with a bible.  the same old bullshit

  • The fact is, most white people are racist... They are the most racist group of people on earth... Evem Though the only reason they have white skin is because of a mutation... you see the first humans to walk the earth were black, and they lived in Africa ...They eventually migrated over into Europe, were they lost there skn color and became white... I think white people need to really understand this point, and it will help racism... black people literally made you, we fuckin MADE YOU... Get it!

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  • @krazy4yellow67 Read your bible = invalid argument. The first people WERE black. Read a textbook.

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  • @krazy4yellow67 I'd mention genetics and anthropology, but for some reason I think this is a lost cause. Yes, men wrote the bible. When was the bible written? 2000 years ago. When did man first appear as he is today? 60,000 - 250,000 years ago. So I've read my textbooks...haf yoo lookit yur bibul reel hard?

  • @DirectInjected yeah right> maybe what ever ghetto school you went to taught you that... since NO BODY was there? NOBODY KNOWS!!

  • @krazy4yellow67 That's not true at all. We know how the universe started but.. *gasp* nobody was there!

  • The only way to end racism is to everybody to admit that they're a full of shit.Because that's who we are.

  • lol you make me smile

  • He doesn't want to do interracial marriage because the suffering the child will go through? What about couples who don't want to have children?

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  • WHOA: JUST A DAMN MINUTE :IF RACE MIXING IS SO [BAD] WHY IS IT THAT YOUR [WHITE] GREAT GREAT&GRAND FATHERS WENT AROUND THE

    [WORLD] AND [SCREWED] ALL THE BLACK &BROWN WOMEN THAT COULD

    CONQUER AND ENSLAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

    P.S THE BLACK &BROWN SEX MUST have been better Than he had at[HOME] ONLY one terrible thing he carried with him a [DESEASED]BODY

    AND infected all the other [RACES] OF HEALTHY people in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

  • That's fuckin bullshit. A Chinese woman and a Canadian man should be able to marry each other. AND FOR ALL YOU RACIST BASTARDS OUT THERE, I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN LOUISIANA.

  • the problem is, that ignorant people (such as most republicans, conservatives and wide parts of humanity) dont understand the meaning of words, dont know how to reason, dont care about facts and have been dropped on their head, on various occasions.

  • People will and can always date whoever they find attractive. We're all from the first people, Adam and Eve and everyone has something in them. We're not cavemen.

  • @shadowgirl9891 Adam and Eve lol

  • I hate hate hate these 'dos equis" ads.

  • @VChapaev fuck u

  • you know, i think its not good to have interracial marriages, not just talking about blacks and whites, i mean, germans with portugueses, indias with french, norweian with spaniards, because in some point in time, humans would look all the same because of the mixing. but if someone wants to marry someone from another race, you know, thats fine, its their choice, you cant keep them from marrying each other.

  • @asgardthor123 Why would everyone being the same colour be a bad thing? Wouldn't that automatically eliminate racism? How can you be racist when everyone is the same race (actually, I agree with Edward James Almos here, we already are one race; the Human race)

  • @wendighoul yes it would end racism, but then people would just discriminate based on some other physical feature like height or eye color. it's human nature to shun people who aren't like you, and the only way to overcome that is to make everyone exactly the same in every single way possible, which is obviously impossible.

  • @wendighoul Well the Nazis wanted to eliminate all other races and only have white German/northern European people. Making all people in the world become the same race is not a solution to solve racism, it's a copout. That's like saying: We can't win this game of chess so lets just smash the chessboard in to pieces. Putting an end to racism would mean that people of different races could live together in harmony. It's the racists that say lets all be the same cause they can't stand different.

  • @MrCrasyLasy37 Ah yes, but hybridization and genocide are hardly the same, are they? The Nazis wanted to eliminate all other races, not join them. I am not saying that we should be trying to combine all the races, or that it is the only or best solution to racism, only that it would be quite effective in combatting racism, or at least the most prevalent form of racism, that based on colour of skin. There is also a big difference between all being the same colour, and all being the same.

  • @wendighoul True, but you do get the point. It's like if there was a town full of white people and then some black people would move in to the town and the white people would be racist towards them based on them being black, should you try to deal with the problem of hate and bigotry or just turn the black people in to white people?(rhetorical question). While it is true that that kind of racism would not exist if everybody was the same race, that would not cure bigotry or hate or ignorance.

  • pranays shut the fuck up asshole or not lol i dont care either way white should stay with white and black should stay with black thats that

  • save yourself the bs stick with your own kind

  • @HunkOfBurningLove1 You want your sister for yourself that’s why?

    You’re as dumb as anyone can get and you look and sound like a fucking inbreed retard.

  • @VChapaev LOL a white can't support black panthers (not being racist just saying black panthers are black only organization) they may want to but that doesn't mean they are XD

  • @VChapaev and you certain you family fought in wars just because your white doesn't automatically means you family fought in wars they may have got killed in one but that doesn't mean they fought ;)

  • i'm just going to say this...dogs and cats can't breed because god didnt want them to mix...if god didnt want black people and white ppl to be together they wouldnt be able to have children...skin color means nothing...it is only appearance...this dude needs to get over himself...wats the big fucking deal get over it love is color blind..idiot

  • ROTFLMAO there's an interracial dating advertisement right beside the video! XD

  • he is right , interracial marriage sucks , I am black and and I prefer each race should marries their own ,we all still can be friend

  • i dont think he is racist, just stupid

  • White boy Bush? Saying something offensive like that is why white people complain about racism.

  • A child of a white woman and a black man, may become President of The USA.

  • @emmyjo720 our good-ol' sellout-in-chief

  • @Kalahridudex What has that got to do with this arguement? Obama is a mixed race man and the leader of the free world. He is a huge improvement in white boy Bush. And Cenk is in an interracial marriage. He is Turkish, his wife is Chinese, they will have beautiful children,

  • @emmyjo720 because the other guy sucked really THATS ALL

  • @emmyjo720 Yeah, especially if they are two communist freaks.

  • @40AcreMule If they are it didn't rub off on their son, he is barely left wing.

  • @emmyjo720 true, true. Obama.

  • @TheLegend1245 That has scared the shit out of these people....Mixed race children can grow up and change the world.

  • His mane concern is for the children??? lol thats the same ignorant escape goat they use for gay marriage... bullshit. They always throw children in as a shield, to conceal the truth of the matter. They hate something. They hate blacks and whites being in love, or people of the same gender... doh. As long as you have people who love the children unconditionally, and are amazing parents, it doesnt matter

  • @RodTalon0000 i no, its the classic biggoted copp out excuse, mixed race children fit in anywhere period, same as kids from a gay couple, im getting sick of this cowardice and spitefullness towards interracial, its getting a tad old and wearing extrmelty thin, these kinda people wont stop it and never will, its a part of life

  • you know halie barry! o_o you are alot famous then i thought

  • I wonder if Keith Bardwell supports same-sex marriage.

  • fuck Mugabe!!!

  • 'Saying that Blacks are violent, uneducated, lazy, criminal, etc with low IQ would be racist.'

    If that's the definition of being 'racist' then I say: LONG LIVE RACISM!

  • 440John and Frank4268 are hilarious. Trust me. Anyone with a little bit of class and success wouldn't make such bitter and uneducated statements. You know why? Decent and intellectual people focus more on building people up instead of bringing them down. It's just American. Continue as you were.

  • 440jhon.............you wrong not all black people are criminals, and while they tend to have higher crimes, unwanted babies, abortions, etc.

    thas no reason to generalize so stop complaining and help those who need more help......if african americans progress our country progress too, 'cause they are part of our country

  • @440John GO CATCH YOUR ALZHEIMERS AND WEAR YOUR DIAPER LIKE YOUR TRAIT!!!!!!

  • I'll go with making a multicultural family....more fun that way

  • lets try this again....I'll give you the benefit of the doubt when you say that you are not interested in dating black people....fine whatever.....some people are like that, I get it. But when you start saying that you'll forbid Someone ELSE from dating someone simply based off of the fact that they are of another ethnicity......is racist.....if you truly were not racist and truly loved your daughter, you wouldn't care who she was dating, as long as they made her happy....end of story

  • @VChapaev shut the fuck up and go straight to hell-

  • the fact that you said "interracial marriage is treason abd disloyalty" pretty much proves that you're a racist. You can say that you support african american groups, but you still do not think that they are on your level of social hierarchy becuz u wont let your daughter marry a black man...The fact that you're announcing that you claim not to be a racist and that your ideals are better than everyone else's just proves.....once again....that u rationalize the extent to which you are racist!

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  • Neo cons fuck up the country.They have retarded beliefs that they won't wavier from, no matter how much harm come from them. They suck donkey dick.

  • @flubno Liberals are not different. They are anti U.S Constitution, race baiters and soft communists. Freedom of Speech and Press would not exist under liberal leadership. We can see it here with political correctness bullshit.

    Now learn it bitch and do not respond until you understand that the left wing is trash.

    You are trash and so is the worthless fucking Democrat party.

  • complete bullshit

  • @flubno

    Complete truth. The Liberal Nazis hate freedom of speech and press UNLESS it comes from them. They force the courts to make laws instead of interpret them. They force people to accept things not allowing liberty of a choice. They are NAZIS.

    You like liberal nazism, don't you, idiot?

  • even more bullshit

  • @flubno

    TRUTH..I know it blows down your house of cards.

  • Where do you get this crap from ? Nazi's are liberals ? I guess in your world black is white and up is down. You like some truths ? There is no God, and corporations have taken over our Republic.

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  • @flubno

    seee, only liberal idiots think that...

    most Blacks believe in God, most Blacks hate gays and lesbians and also believe that they will burn in hell, unfortunately though, most Blacks are ignorant in historical belief and are also racists-

    God is alive

    God is real

    And you can go straight to hell

  • yeah, i fucked jesus in the ass

  • ok....blacks are not ignorant or racist. and they dont hate gays or lesbos......what in the fuck is wrong with you?

  • @GodAndtheRepublic god doesn't like gay or lesbian either he doesn't want them in the bible it clearly stats marriage/relationship are between a man and a women unless your a different religion oh and thank you for not saying all black because no one knows all black so I do thank you for that

  • @mrcow1985 Lousiana would be so much better without Black Criminals which infest New Orleans.

  • My aunt is a chinese and my uncle is a British and they are living happily now and my cousin is mix...... and they are not divorce....

  • im glad he isnt a coon lover unlike this lib

  • People should be allowed to marry whoever they want. Race, sexual orientation, or any other personal traits should not matter. I'm a black woman with a white boyfriend, and we've been happy together for almost 5 years. The fact that we love each other and are happy should be the only thing that matters.

  • @gir908922 No wonder you are sick in the head. I guess people should be able to marry bugs and their anuts as well.

  • This is a stupid video. The Young Turks are some of the most foolish morons if there weren't any.

  • and you're a fucking Nazi now piss off!

  • @mythinktube NAZIS were of the Left Wing. I am of the Right Wing. I believe you should properly learn history. What I say is the truth. If you hate it, I suggest you not read my comments. I really do not care if you do not either. You are a moron. As being a moron, your thinking capacity is as low as a Negro. It is dull and slow.

  • @GodAndtheRepublic:

    The Nazis are not something you could easily left wing or right wing. There were even new scales created based on Nazis on one side and USSR on the other. Generally, Nazis are consider as Center Authoritarian.

    I am not a history buff, but I even know that. Next time, before you tell others to read up on history, you should do it yourself. Don't use Glenn Beck as a resource for history.

  • @KayleLang

    The NAZIs were socialists for Whites Only party. They hate Communism but were almost the same as the Communists. No freedom of speech, no press, gays/lesbians jailed or killed, ect..

  • @mythinktube

    Nazis are liberals. Now piss off-

  • I think this is just a case where a whose still living in the past refuses to get with the times. He still very old fashioned and living in the past. I feel sorry for him.

  • I love my state California. They support interracial marriage there. I think that old Southern politicians still have some problems even though everything going fine nowadays.

  • It does not matter where you are from.

    There are plenty of Blacks who are racists, and they are not from the South either.

    So learn it and shut up.

  • You can't tell women what guys they should date and/or marry. It would be nice if you could. It would be nice if you could dissuade women from wasting themselves on black guys. But, you can't do that. So, that's that.

  • Loving v. Virginia is a federal ruling, not state isolated.

    The state issue of the case was in 1963, it's federal effects took place in 1967.

    Describing people as a peaceful community is somehow linked to communism? That's like saying the marines are the red army.

    No one is trying to homogenize america, there needs to be equal representation for everyone, that doesn't stop them from winning or losing in life.

  • He is still under investigation. When the department of civil liberties comes to a conclusion they will consult the judge to take away his position of a jop. That simple.

    If the bride's civil suit is brought to court any United States Citizen would be given an attorney if he does not have one. Anyone in that position has a right to a defense.

    It's hilarious how you are out of steam already, all you can do is call me a communist and I'm comfortable with your argument being that weak.

  • Do you have anything better to do than throw the same old, and fearful opinions again and again? You aren't doing a very good job with your red scare here, condsidering there is no threat of one.

    I mean, you've foolishly released too much information about your social beliefs too fast. You got it all out there very quickly, got it dismissed without a proper backing, and you're trying to brush me off (which isnt happening in a million years)

  • Are you trying to write a script for Wolverines? C'mon man considering you know so much about me I can be associated with a legacy, tell me what you know about me and my views (dont just avoid the question)

    I know it's a hard question to ask of you considering I dont release near as many personal beliefs and at a much slower rate than you foolishly did.

  • Embracing policies that are fascist in nature? You seem to embrace the fantasy of putting me on trial for my beliefs, so go ahead and explain what I would feign ignorance about in that scenario.

  • You started this argument with your offensive comments, and you've continued.

    I know you aren't going to listen to my beliefs, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. In a way, I'm disecting your beliefs. I might write a TOK essay on this.

    You start off on this high horse. But you get so frustrated over time, leaking your beliefs as something to fight with, but when that's down you are reduced to capitalising everything, name calling, and considering yourself some suppressed visionary.

  • How ironic is it you said that in a reverse situation that you'd force your opinion on me and use your government muscle to make me feign ignorance to something. You're a regular off the shelf hypocrite.

    You still haven't told me what I'd feign or why, I thought someone who considered himself such a political visionary would be brave enough to take a whack at what I believe.

  • In America? Where I would be given a free defence and opportunities to present myself to a court of my peers? It's a pretty good deal, I think I'd take it even if you think it's oppressive.

    I dont hate you, I pity you. Alright, your argument could only get a lot better or a lot worse by answering my question as to what my opinions are and what I believe so your "ilk" can be more well informed of the hateful (ironic) enemy you see me as.

  • for someone who puts ilk in quotes like that, and gets pissed about us saying that, you said that in (check it out I'm you) EVERY COMMENT YESTERDAY. and "how" IGNORANT is it that one second your saying we're COMMUNISTS and the next we're FASCISTS. "do" you know that they're OPPOSITES? but let me tell you this. I know your no communist, so I'll "stick" with this: Your NOTHING but an ignorant fascist WHO looks down on people because of what they're BORN as, so "politely" I will say FUCK YOU.

  • unless fascism, marxism and communism mean: anything 19Truth53 doesn't like, then yeah we are. but you can say that, but you are yet to give a reason what we have in common with those groups. YOU (check it out I'm you again.) on the other hand have much more similarities to fascism and Nazis then what you claim to be.

  • I've defended the couple's rights more than you've defended the jops. You've undoubtably showed you have a racist biased to the situation that you think goes above the law.

    You still haven't given me any study which would show that interracial marriages aren't as successful. Don't think you can distract anyone with your mediocre speeches.

    You're afraid to focus this around facts and evidence because you have nothing left to defend yourself after throwing everything else out too quick.

  • If we are the hypocrites then why didnt you back up your claim that interracial kids have a harder time growing up (when you defended the judge's opinion). In fact, I remember replying to that comment but it seems to be gone. Did you delete your own comment? Were you so scared of being confronted with evidence while you had none that you deleted it? How pathetic and hypocritical.

    Livescience actually made an article about how interracial couples spend more time with their kids, look it up.

  • See I dont think people have a very easy time believing that two liberals debating a racist on the internet are fascist and communist when you are afraid to explain how. Where did you intillectua high horse go, it was a lot more interesting to dismiss than your simpler self.

    And how is declaring me unworthy of opinion and sending me to an island? That's not fascist? I thought you were gonna put me on "trial" before but once again you're revealing more to your ideological theories too fast.

  • Considering you still say you know so much about my "ilk", describe my beliefs. Cmon, prove you still have something to argue because at this point you have nothing but your own spiteful anger.

    Explain how we embody them. The arguments you make now are that;

    *we are communist fscist etc.

    Because I have taken down your prior arguments;

    *Mainstream Science on Intelligence

    *Bardwell's right to discriminate against the clients

    You're too afraid to back up your interracial marriages argument!

  • Fucking awesome impression of him, props Lazymaster410.

  • And how is it not about you? You were a brash fool and disclosed your own personal racist opinions too quickly. I've dismissed all of your unbacked reasons easily.

    You ran out of ideas, and you ran out of reason.

    Half of your arguments are just pointing fingers at communism (which has nothing to do with this), then accusing me of falling into that category (after not knowing basically anything about my beliefs)

    I'm not going anywhere.

  • So words with definitions (that I've given and supported)

    I say mean nothing jut because you say so? You're like a child.

    Alright considering you even know my shoe size to put a shoe on it why not tell me about my personal and political beliefs?

    Maybe you shouldn't avoid the shoe that does fit cause it's gonna kick you straight in the ass.

  • Every label I've given has had a definition, none of your's have.

    And you've seemed to flush out your beliefs too quickly to really make that claim. Look up United States Justice Department Hate Crime. (remember them, the guys that let you say your ignorant crap on the internet?)

    They not only have the accurate legal definition, they have examples of accurate hate crimes (still waiting on your examples of misfortunate interracial kids)

  • you do know, if you keep saying the same thing over and over again, your point doesnt gain any merit, just some advice for next time you leave a comment. as for what you just said. btw, I didn't say anything about Hate crimes, you did. but a murder because someone is black is the result of the cruelest kind of person.

  • Well if you dont think the United States Justice Department is giving just reasons maybe they might just stop defending your right to say your crap.

    I said go talk to the survivors of a hate crime. Most racial hate crimes are politically driven genius. The living do "give a shit" what happened to them!

  • I haven't claimed to be a justice seeker either, you seem to really not know much about me or me. It's too bad I know too much about you already. Like how you agree that "interracial marriages dont work" in the other comment. You are too open with your stuff, too much bravado, not enough restraint.

  • by the way buddy, Carlos Slim is Mexican, so suck it red-neck.

  • ok, I have just one question after watching this shocking video?

    Who the hell are the "Young Turks?"

  • The Judge was fired a week later,and the couple still got married. Ironically they are having their first child.

  • That's BULLSHIT! Who told you that? He CAN'T "get fired" because he works for himself.

  • He did get stripped of his license by the State of Luisiana, after being charged with discriminating against the couples who did nothing wrong do not let him service them.

  • I've seen no article claiming he's been "sripped." I've seen self-flagilating whining from assorted Lefties & other Fascists who are howling to have him "stripped" of his license, but I've seen no action, so far. Where did you get this information? Furthermore, the J of P DID NOTHING WRONG, either. It's HIS call, not the couple's or any other outside interventionist. He's broken no laws, so everyone just needs to LEAVE HIM ALONE! Any "punishment" would be strictly politically motivated.

  • No, he is blatantly discriminating against a couple that did nothing. In fact, he legally cannot deny them based on race. In 1967 a supreme court ruling found that a marriage license cannot be denied to a couple BASED on race.

    The jop can deny marriages, he was just stupid enough to give a technically illegal answer. He can deny them, but race cant be the reason why.

  • And he's done NOTHING WRONG "discriminating" against something he doesn't believe in! He MOST CERTAINLY CAN "discriminate" in this fashion because he's NOT part of a business establishment which falls under the draconian EEOC and Dept. of Labor rules. The 1967 Supreme Court ruling DOES NOT APPLY this his case. This should be obvious to even the most ardent Fascist like yourself because he's been doing it for 34 years.

  • The judgement fell under the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which agreed with the ACLU that he showed blatant racial discrimination and obviously infringed upon the 1967 court ruling. Of course it applies, how could race possibly not be why he is denying them a marriage license? If he denied them for another reason please explain.

  • What "judgment"? I've seen no "judgment" about this. It does NOT "apply" because he is a 'Sole Proprietor.' He can choose to use or not use his license any way he sees fit, and his "reasons" for doing so are his OWN and NOT subject to the bullshit "1967 ruling," whatsoever. Any such prohibition by the State or Fed Gov would be counter to the 'Constitution' and 'Bill of Rights' which guarantee his right to proprietorship, pursuit of happiness, Free Enterprise, Free Association, etc.

  • His reasons on denying a marriage as a Justice of the Peace cannot be based on race, that is literally what the ruling says.

    Yeah good to know his pursuit of happiness includes discriminating against human beings that haven't wronged him. What about THEIR pursuit of happiness? All men are created equal right?

  • The supreme court ruling in 1967 was entirely about stopping the church and JOP's from denying interracial marriages. He cannot give race as his reason.

    Denying equal rights to two human beings is how he pursues happiness? What about their pursuit of happiness? Aren't all men created equal and dont they all have these rights?

  • That ruling doesn't affect this J of P since the so called "ruling" was non-binding. It's UNCONSTITUTIONAL since anti-discrimination laws only affect the workplace, not private, single-employee businesses. If you are a Notary, for example, and you refuse to notarize a document (for whatever reason) the 'State' cannot force any action against you since you've broken no laws regarding Notaries. This is not YET a Fascist country which can dictate down to the last vestige of the private sector.

  • Many Civil Liberty Attorneys disagree and think it absolutely falls under that ruling, and it's blatantly obvious it does.

    They are being denied their own pursuit of happiness, so he is being the unconstitutional one!

  • That's RICH, talking about 'Civil Liberties' when you deny the CIVIL LIBERTY of the man in question. But, that's Marxism for you...,only YOUR 'Civil Liberties' are important and should be guarded. They ARE NOT - and have NOT - been "denied" thier 'pursuit of happines.' They went right down the road and got another J of P to marry them. CASE CLOSED!

  • So one man is allowed his pursuit of happiness and two other people are not?

    No one has civil liberties in a Communist Society, and should only this guy's rights be guarded?

  • You're acting like this J of P PERMANENTLY DENIED these people their rights. HE DID NOTHING OF THE SORT. He refused both their wish for HIM to marry them AND refused their money. FINE! The moved on, paid another J of P, and now are living happily ever after. However, the Social Marxist Thought Control Machinery MUST have a never-ending supply of new blood in which to satisfy its never-ending lust for blasphemers of the official dogma.