“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.

Yeah, he’s a justice of the peace in Louisiana, and he refuses to perform interracial weddings because he’s concerned about the children. Srsly.

• Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.