Tag Archives: Virginia

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has announced that he will be suing the federal government to block the implementation of the health care reform bill in his state. Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now …

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was recorded discussing how to strike down federal laws signed by the president on the basis on his not being a U.S. citizen. Cuccinelli recently ordered state universities to rescind their LGBT employment protections.

William and Mary college students Casey and Cassie break down the anti-gay actions of Attorney Genernal Ken Cuchinelli and Gov. Bob McDonnell. The two have been part of a spring break action by Virginia students protesting the removal of LGBT protections at Virginia’s public universities. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

After weeks of criticism over his explicit exclusion of LGBT people from an executive order banning discrimination against some groups, today Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell issued a statement ordering state agencies not to discriminate against gays. The statement has no force of law and is effectively useless to any homosexual fired for being gay. In a strongly worded edict, Gov. …

“Let’s be clear that William & Mary neither discriminates against people nor tolerates discrimination on our campus. Those of us at W&M insist that members of our campus community be people of integrity who have both the capacity to meet their responsibilities to the university and the willingness to engage others with civility and respect. “We do not insist, however, …

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s campaign to make sure that every LGBT person can be fired for being gay is expanding to his state’s public universities. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has asked the state’s public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school Thursday …

Our second American Talibangelists post for today: An anonymous Christian group is approaching women in Virginia and handing them leaflets that advise that their clothing is “ungodly” and because men cannot withstand such temptation, they may be deservingly facilitating their own rapes. Here’s what a young woman working a fast food drive-thru window experienced: “Even though nothing is showing, you’re …

By executive order, last week Virginia Gov. Bob McConnell excluded LGBT residents from state employment protections. In return, gay rights groups are now lobbying defense contractor Northrop Grumman to reject Virginia as the location for its new national headquarters. One Maryland politician is leaping to take advantage of his state’s new recognition of same-sex marriages. In a letter sent Thursday …

Rachel Maddow takes on Bob Marshall’s statement about abortion and deformed children and his attempt to force an end to funding for Planned Parenthood. Virginia has undergone a “hard right turn” since Gov. Bob McDonnell has taken office.

Newly elected Virginia Gov. Rob McDonnell thinks it should be legal to fire someone for being gay and has removed sexual orientation from his state’s list of protected classes. Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has signed an executive order barring discrimination in the state workforce on grounds that include race, sex, religion and age, but not sexual orientation. The order, …

Concerned that employers or insurance companies may one day forcibly implant microchips into people, yesterday the Virginia legislature made such a thing illegal without written consent. But the bill’s sponsor had an additional agenda. Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg), the bill’s sponsor, said that privacy issues are the chief concern behind his attempt to criminalize the involuntary implantation of microchips. …

A school system in Virginia has pulled a revised version of The Diary Of Anne Frank after a Christian parent complained about the book’s inclusion of previously redacted bits about homosexuality. Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, …

A family court judge in Virginia has given Lisa Miller another 30 days to appear with her 7 year-old daughter or face arrest. Presumably aided by the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, Miller went into hiding last month after a Vermont judge awarded custody of her daughter to Miller’s lesbian ex-partner, Janet Jenkins. After “renouncing” her homosexuality and finding Jeebus, Miller had …

“In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent …

“Ex-gay” Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella remain on the lam, one week after a Vermont judge ordered Miller to surrender custody of Isabella to Miller’s ex-partner, Janet Jenkins. Yesterday the Bedford County, Virginia sheriff’s office issued a missing persons report for the pair, saying that while no Virginia laws have been broken, they do want proof that the pair …

Lisa Miller (left) has until tomorrow to hand her daughter Isabella over to her ex-partner Janet Jenkins and nobody is saying where they are hiding, especially not the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, Miller’s attorneys, who appear to be complicit in Isabella’s kidnapping. “She does not know where her daughter is and she is trying to find her,” Sarah Star, an attorney …

The governors of Maryland and Virginia, both of whom are Catholic, appeared on DC-area radio yesterday to blast DC’s Catholic Charities over the organization’s threat to suspend homeless services should same-sex marriage become legal in the District. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley criticized the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington’s response to the district’s gay marriage proposal during …

Thanks to everybody who dropped in and who stayed with me for the past seven hours. Despite Maine, it was in general a fantastic night for LGBT politics, with great results seen in Kalamazoo, Chapel Hill, Detroit, Houston, and in Washington state, where Approve 71 continues to lead, with a final result possibly not coming for a few days. Let’s …

“Homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law-based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to …