A Louisiana couple is considering filing a federal discrimination complaint after a justice of the peace in Louisiana refused to marry them because they are an interracial couple. Keith Bardwell, the justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, said, “I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way.” Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed-race couple. If they are, he refuses to marry them. The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the Louisiana Judiciary Committee to severely sanction Bardwell.