This is very interesting to read.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccienelli II wants VA's public colleges and universities to end all policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, because they have no legal authority to adopt those statements.
Really? I'm curious to see how folks are taking this news.In his most aggressive initiative on conservative social issues since taking office in January, Cuccinelli (R) wrote in the letter sent Thursday that only the General Assembly can extend legal protections to gay state employees, students and others -- a move the legislature has repeatedly declined to take as recently as this week.
The letter demonstrates an increasing split in the region's policies on issues related to sexual orientation. It comes in the same week that the District began issuing marriage licenses for gay couples and a week after Maryland's attorney general announced that his state will recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
"It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation,' 'gender identity,' 'gender expression,' or like classification as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy absent specific authorization from the General Assembly," he wrote in the letter.
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The Conservs have obviously taken over Virginia. It'll take some voter action to get the state back into the 21st Century. That means that progressive citizen's are going to have to speak up and let their voice be heard in larger numbers than they are doing in VA right now. As for Cuccienelli, he's obviously a teabagger. He should just continue his teabagging with mouth shut.
No, the reason why Virginia is in the bind they are in due to the ineptness of progressive and the Virginia Democrats to use discernment to have an electable candidate on the gubernatorial ticket. This type of idiocy is what is so wrong with the Democratic party and why so many wind up allowing the socially conservative ass-backwards to win elections and turn back the hands of time policy-wise. Oh, I'm taking a bet that Cuccinelli will be caught up in a same-sex scandal sooner than latter because he spends entirely too much of his time worried about LGBTs...
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