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“The Attorney General swore an oath that he would ‘support…the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia’ and faithfully discharge his duties, which include defending duly enacted laws like the state’s marriage amendment. Yet now Attorney General Herring is participating in a lawsuit against the very people he is sworn to represent, the citizens of Virginia who preserved marriage in their …

“Someone should have handed Virginia’s new Attorney General a job description before he was sworn in. With barely a month under his belt, the radical liberal seems to be completely confused about his role as the state’s chief law enforcer. Despite his campaign promises on same-sex ‘marriage,’ the new AG is obviously taking lessons in lawlessness from President Obama, whose …

Fox News says that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is “throwing out” the Tenth Amendment. They are VERY UPSET. Snork!

Watch this. Watch the entire thing.

The Cooch was a liberal!

“The decision by the attorney general is not surprising, but it is disappointing and frightening. It’s disappointing that he wouldn’t be clear about his intentions on this issue while campaigning for the office. More importantly, it’s frightening that politicians like the attorney general feel that they can pick and choose which aspects of the Constitution they deem worth to defend …

Mid-page on the left. (Tipped by JMG reader Sam)

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who won election in November by a 0.04% margin, will join Prop 8 victors Ted Olson and David Boies in their bid to strike down his state’s ban on gay marriage. The action will mark a stunning reversal in the state’s legal position on same-sex marriage and is a result of November elections in which …

Anti-gay GOP former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who routinely opposed LGBT rights in his state, was today charged with accepting illegal gifts from a local businessman. McDonnell’s wife was also charged. Authorities alleged that for nearly two years, the McDonnells hit up executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. again and again, lodging near constant requests for large loans, clothes, trips, golf …

“Dear Joe, This may be the hardest letter I’ve ever written. My family’s been stalked, I’ve been threatened, assaulted and called every manner of vile name. My little children became targets. The threats were unspeakable. But God called me to this place, and I’ve stood my ground, not just my ground, the Family’s ground, our ground. But now I wonder. …

If you are a Virginian survivor of “ex-gay” torture, activists need your help. Via Box Turtle Bulletin: Virginia is attempting to join the list of states which ban ex-gay therapy on minors.  Text of the bill can be found here.  Legislative action is going to happen between now and the end of February and Virginia based survivors of ex-gay therapy …

Via the Leesburg Today: The man who came under fire for his extreme political stances after he was appointed to the Loudoun Library Board of Trustees earlier this month has resigned. Andrew Beacham sent an email to the entire Board of Supervisors Sunday afternoon thanking them for their consideration in appointing him, but saying “[d]ue the circumstances, I hereby tender …

In his first official act following today’s inauguration, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order protecting LGBT state employees from discrimination. Shortly after taking office in 2010, GOP former Gov. Bob McDonnell stripped such protections from the traditional order, claiming that there was no evidence that gay people are discriminated against. McAuliffe: “My administration is committed to keeping Virginia …

Via the Washington Post: A Sterling man who once tore out pages of the Koran in front of the White House, and whose fierce rhetoric on Twitter included declaring “the only good progressive is a dead progressive,” has been approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to sit on the county library’s board of trustees for the next four …

Eugene Delgaudio is calling on his supporters to crash tomorrow’s inauguration for Virginia Gov.-Elect Terry McAuliffe. Via his press release published today by Christian Newswire: The conservative Public Advocate group is distributing thousands of commemorative badges marking the inauguration of a liberal governor Saturday, January 11 in Richmond. The group is opposing Governor-elect McAuliffe’s anti-family legislation or any so-called pro-homosexual …

Via press release from AFER: On Thursday, January 30, 2014, the first hearing in the Virginia marriage equality case of Bostic v. Rainey will be held at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen. The Bostic Plaintiffs’ lawsuit – first filed in July 2013 in Norfolk – argues that the Virginia …

“Dear Joe, Radical homosexuals are checking my garbage. If they see Public Advocate’s treasury depleted they will see an opening to ram through the Gay Bill of Special Rights, the Homosexual Classrooms Act and National Homosexual ‘Marriage.’ Without your financial support and prayers, Public Advocate would be nothing — totally helpless against the radical homosexuals’ assault on our families. The …

And the hits just keep coming! Via a joint press release from Lambda Legal and the ACLU: A federal court denied a motion from the Staunton Circuit Court Clerk today seeking dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples. The lawsuit, filed earlier this year on behalf of two couples by the American Civil Liberties Union, …

Openly gay Virginia state Sen. Adam Ebbin today introduced a bill to repeal that state’s constitutional ban on marriage. There’s a long road ahead, however. To repeal the 2006 amendment, legislation would have to pass the General Assembly two times with an intervening election, then would go on the ballot in the next succeeding general election. If it won first …

“Dear Joe, I’ve been putting off sending you this letter for a while because I didn’t want to worry you. But late one night while sorting through pro-Family petitions from supporters like you, a thug crept in through a door, threw a blanket over my head and pummeled me with a rock. Thankfully, one of my volunteers heard when I …