Comments on: Va. Senate panel approves anti-gay adoption bill

By: L. A..

L. A.. — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:45:13 +0000

If you’re gay or lesbian and live in Virginia you deserve to be subjected to this. What don’t you get about Virginia being a backwards state oriented towards anti-everything discrimination? Why would you live in Virginia and then whine about this? When McDonnell won the election it was highly likely that this would happen as soon as the votes were there.

Similar to living on the Arctic circle and complaining about the cold weather.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:26:21 +0000

This why I live in Maryland and not Virginia never mind the lower taxes and more plentiful jobs in NoVa than maybe in Montgomery County, Maryland. I can’t be fired for being gay in my area under Maryland law, not so in Virginia under Virginia law.
The willful and intentional arrogance, ignorance, bigotry and backwardness of Virginia politicians like VA Atty General Ken Cuccinelli these days ruin an otherwise beautiful and historic state. During the colonial times, Northern Virginia of George Washington’s area was known for culture,refinement and intellect, now the state is just mired in hate and stupidity and is stagnating socially, politically, morally, and has badly lost its standing as a cultural and intellectual star.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:38 +0000

Repugnantcans are really scraping the bottom of the ignorance barrel, aren’t they? These hypocritical, self-righteous, morally-bankrupt, backwards, backwoods, inbred bunch of hillbilly MORONS in the GOP have to be stood up to, called out for the bigots that they are and voted against again and again until the gay community can persuade enough progressive, open-minded people to vote the GOPigs out of office.
Out of the GOPig Party, I would say MAYBE 2-3% are NOT scum, the rest? All scum. Period!

By: Tamara G. Suttle, M.Ed., LPC

Tamara G. Suttle, M.Ed., LPC — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:46:58 +0000

Really? REALLY???! It seems so perverse, doesn’t it, in 2012 to continue to have to fight for children to have the right to have families of their own!

I take comfort in recognizing that in spite of the narrow mindedness and self-righteousness of the older men in the Virginia Senate, the times are changing . . . . The polls show that the majority of youth today recognize that ALL loving and safe families are good places for children to live.

Thank you for taking time to address the hipocricy that we must continue to expose to pursue a socially and morally just world.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:21:26 +0000

No surprises here. The state should really change its saying of “Virginia is for lovers” to “Virginia is for haters,” because that is the reality of the situation. Virginia continues to march backwards towards more intolerance and discrimination, when the rest of the country is moving forward.