By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:57:36 +0000

I’m sorry to say that Virginia is going to remain an insane christian fundamentalist dictatorship for many years to come, that refuses to end discrimination against gay & lesbian people. Gov. McDonnell is a horse’s ass (or elephants ass anyway) and the malicious Republican majority in the House of Delegates is preparing to redraw Virginia’s Congressional, House of Delegates and Senate Districts after the census to keep themselves in power against the will of the true majority of Virginians.
I was pleased to see the Democrat controlled State Senate pass SB.66, (with only one Republican vote) but it will surely die in the gay-bashing Republican House of Delegates, probably in the same rotten sub-commitee that has already killed Delegate Adam Ebbin’s house equivalent bill, HB.1116. Make no mistake, reform in Virginia will only come through relief at the Federal level, with federal legislation such as the passage of ENDA. Virginia’s religious-right Republican bigots still refuse to pass hate crimes legislation here, despite the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Law at the federal level. All of this underscores the need for Democratic action at the federal level, and that means getting non-committed fence riding Dems like Virginia’s two senators Webb & Warner to stop sitting around, or God forbid opposing, legislation such as ENDA and the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act. They could also get behind the efforts to repeal DADT and DOMA, but I’m not betting on that happening any time soon either.

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By: Tim