Tag Archives: Virginia

A Virginia grand jury has rejected a criminal indictment for anti-gay crackpot Eugene Delgaudio, who is accused of having used a public employee to perform fundraising for his hate group. According to the grand jury, Virginia law considers the misuse of public assets to be a crime only when committed by full-time state employees. County commissioners like Delgaudio are considered …

The New York Times is wondering what Ken Mehlman’s legacy will be regarding LGBT rights. Mr. Mehlman, 46, remains the hyper-intense, guarded strategist he was in his Bush days, with the same habit of looking past people instead of meeting their eyes. He shuns most interviews and still deflects personal questions, as he did back when rumors about his sexuality …

Virginia GOP lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson believes that sin causes birth defects and that yoga is based in Satanism. What he apparently does not believe is that self-published books should have correctly spelled titles.

“Keep in mind that the whole cosmos has been made imperfect — wounded — by sin. It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. Leaving aside that for a moment, recent discoveries about the genetic code of each human being are a fulfillment of scripture. …

Eugene Delgaudio’s crackpottery goes back to the late 80s and he wants you to know it. Watch the fake reporter woodenly “interview” Delgaudio about his “political theater” stunts against Barney Frank, flag burning, and more.

Homofascist terrorists are going to run wild in daycare centers and public schools, apparently.

“I say the things that I say because I’m a Christian, not because I hate anybody, but because I have religious values that matter to me. Attacking me because I hold to those principles is attacking every church-going person, every family that’s living a traditional family life, everybody who believes that we all deserve the right to live. So I …

“Dear Joe, I see well-known agents of the radical Homosexual Lobby everywhere. They are huddled in dark corners scheming and plotting. They meet secretly with newly elected members of Congress in hopes of tempting them to advance their perverse agenda with campaign cash and the promise of votes. My health is suffering under the strain of fighting the radical Homosexual …

This weekend the Virginia Republican Party officially nominated vicious anti-gay activist E.W. Jackson to be Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s running mate in the November gubernatorial race. Today Right Wing Watch posted a recap of statements by Jackson, many of which have appeared here on JMG over the last two years.  RWW writer Brian Tashman: Jackson on gays and lesbians: Referred …

Leesburg Today has the news: This week, Al Nevarez, Delgaudio’s 2011 opponent for supervisor who is helping lead the effort, confirmed the group of community organizers formed under a group called Sterling Deserves Better had surpassed the 558 signatures—equal to 10 percent of the number voting in the 2011 election—needed for the group to make its case before a judge. …

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has launched a petition to the Supreme Court demanding the overturn of DOMA. Via email from Warner’s office: Even though many states now recognize the rights of committed same-sex couples to marry, the federal government continues to discriminate. Same-sex couples are denied all sorts of legal rights – like access to their spouse’s insurance benefits and …

The Fourth District Court of Appeals has slapped down Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s last ditch ploy to keep sodomy illegal. Via Washington Blade: In an action that surprised some court observers, the order says none of the court’s judges requested a poll among themselves to determine which, if any of them, favored Cuccinelli’s request for an en banc rehearing …

This week Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed yet another federal appeal in support of his state’s ban on sodomy.  But his campaign won’t respond to a Mother Jones inquiry as to whether Cucinnelli or his staffers have ever committed sodomy themselves. Cuccinelli, who is running to be Virginia’s next governor, recently petitioned a federal court to reverse its ruling …

Last month I reported: Over the objections of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who is running for governor), yesterday a federal appeals court overturned Virginia’s ban on sodomy. The ruling arose from the conviction of a man who had solicited oral sex from a 17 year-old girl.  The appeals court said that the state should prosecute unlawful sex between adults and …

Seven years ago 43% of Virginians voted against a ban on same-sex marriage.  A new poll released this week shows that support for marriage equality has “only nudged up slightly” since then.  David Weigel writes on Slate: “If SCOTUS doesn’t find a constitutional right to gay marriage, states like Virginia can only legalize if they pass new voter-validated amendments. And …

Crackpot Eugene Delgaudio must think he’ll survive the charges that he forced a public employee to solicit donations to his hate group, because he’s launched the above hilariously transparent campaign to build the email list for his 2015 reelection as Loudoun County supervisor. Maybe if you sign up that “birthday salute” to Reagan, you’ll also get an invite to one …

Over the objections of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who is running for governor), yesterday a federal appeals court overturned Virginia’s ban on sodomy. The majority ruled that Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” anti-sodomy provision is unconstitutional in light of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state laws that make sexual activity between consenting adults crimes. “It is shameful that Virginia …

Pastor Kenneth Miller has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in the kidnapping of the child of a lesbian mom whose former partner “renounced homosexuality” and fled with their child to Nicaragua in violation of a court-ordered custody sharing arrangement. Miller spent 30 days in jail for contempt earlier this year after refusing to name his …