Comments on: Va. guv addresses anti-gay bias in directive

By: Peter the saint

Peter the saint — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:51:13 +0000

In the US Census, we classify people according to race – gender – ethnicity – disability – etc. Virginia state officials clearly here acknowledge that sexual orientations exist which are different from each other. That L, G, B, & T are different classes and are classifiable, as is heterosexual orientation (so many of whom lean towards BI anyway, and won’t say, but we won’t go there…).

But they simply REFUSE to enter us into public record. The Government of Virginia refuses to recognize our existence under the law. LAWYERS refuse. WHAT DO WE CALL THAT, CHILDREN?? DIS-CRIM-I-NAY-SHUN, everyone say it with me: DISCRIMINATION. GOT IT? GOOD!

You artless, heartless, waspy thugs…

And I disagree with David above. The right thing to do would have been to leave the previous executive order as it was, with inclusion of sexual orientation. Politicians who are daily only out to help themselves and nooooobody else…

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:34:52 +0000

This is monumental for a Republican in the Bible-belt South. McDonnell deserves credit and support for this effort. It won’t play to his base at all, but it was the right thing for him to have done.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:09:05 +0000

I don’t trust him. Just another slick politician trying to save face, I guess.

The courts don’t have to pay attention to this. Plus, it doesn’t cover students at Virginia universities.

There is one good thing about this: A republican governor has admitted that: “The Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits discrimination without a rational basis against any class of persons. Discrimination based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation or parental status violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.” So sooner or later they are going to have to admit that the equal protection clause of the US constitution trumps the Marshall Newman amendment in the Virginia constitution, too.