Ver-r-y interesting. It seems the repellent Louisiana justice of the peace, Keith Bardwell, who refused to marry an inter racial couple had a long history as a Democrat before becoming a Republican last year according to Antipelagian blog.

He was a Democrat from 1996 until 2008...and he bases his views on his own history of observing interracial marriages...a history that likely extends into a past previous to the days of yore known popularly as "A.D. 2008".