The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Just not the anti-gay ones. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell knows his nuts are caught in one tight publicity vise with the emergence of Cro-magnon views in his graduate thesis while he attended Regent University. His campaign is in full-out damage control mode as he held an 80-minute conference call with reporters to respond to the matter, saying some of his views have changed.
McDonnell, the Republican nominee, said that since he wrote that academic paper as a 34-year-old Regent University graduate student, he has changed his views on divorce law, working wives and restricting access to contraception.
"Any indication that I gave in that paper that I didn't think women should work I absolutely and fully repudiate," McDonnell said. "That is not my position. Any statements that gave that impression are absolutely wrong."
The thesis also said that the Supreme Court in 1972 "illogically" invalidated a law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried persons; as governor, McDonnell said, he would not seek to change state laws regarding the sale of contraceptives.
Claiming his views at the time had been shaped by his Catholic faith, Army service and Reagan-era Republicanism, McDonnell nonetheless said his perspective has changed on such issues as women in the workplace, homosexuality and divorce - all of which he depicted in his thesis as threats.
As for gays, McDonnell said that in hiring decisions as attorney general, he was interested only in candidates' qualifications and not their sexual orientation.McDonnell, however, made no mention of an opinion he wrote early in his term in which he said Gov. Timothy M. Kaine acted illegally in vowing to protect gay state employees from discrimination in the workplace.
Bzzzt. FAIL. That's not supporting anti-discrimination laws, that's just a matter of saying HE won't consider sexual orientation as a bar to employment. Oh, and he made no attempt to clarify his position on marriage equality; he sponsored the heinous Virginia marriage amendment and touts that on his web site. McDonnell is going the safe wingnut route -- rolling back on his most extreme opinions about women and reproductive rights to try to save his outreach to moderates. Obviously he has no problem tossing the LGBT vote overboard since he doesn't think his positions will offend anyone. Nice try, Bob.
I hope Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila Johnson likes bankrolling and bedding down with this disingenuous pr*ck's campaign.
On Friday at Netroots Nation I interviewed Krystal Ball, who is running to represent the 1st district in Virginia. She is a straight ally running a campaign with strong public support for LGBT rights and reproductive freedom.
We must have a balance of experience and idealism in Congress, with multiple generations represented. Right now, those under 30, with their unique perspective and combination of idealism and pragmatism have no voice in Congress.
Krystal will be the voice for grandparents, parents and young people; for anyone with an interest in the next generation. She will stand up for marriage equality, for education funding, for technology based rural job growth and for protecting the environment. When everyone in Washington talks about how "future generations" are going to have to live with the environmental mess, failure of social security and huge deficits, they are talking about a generation currently not represented in Congress. We have fewer women in Congress than Afghanistan or Rwanda! Let's change that.
She is running to unseat a real anti-gay winger, Rob Wittman. From his family values page:
As a member of the Values Action Team, I will continue to support pro-life, pro-family legislation. I will work in defense of parental rights, religious liberty, and the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Furthermore, I support efforts to curb internet pornography and obscenity.
As usual, he represents social conservatism that wants government out of business, but peeping in your bedroom and your doctor's office.
Krystle brings a lot of enthusiasm into this race (she's 27) and wants to encourage the youth vote, which usually needs quite a bit of motivation to vote consistently (outside of this last presidential election) and Ball has a novel motivator -- The Krystal Ball Student Loan Challenge. Whoever raises the most money for Krystal by September 30, 2009 will win something near and dear to their pocketbooks. Their student loans will be paid off -- up to $50,000.
God dammit, WTF is wrong with people!? This is an outrage; what does it take to stop the madness of police brutality and abuse of the 50K volt Taser -- now used as a compliance device instead of social skills and training? This case involved only a complaint of excessive noise that brought the police to a home. Again, the police violence occurred in a private residence in front of a yard full of children.
A Latino family in Manassas, Virginia, is celebrating the baptism of their two young boys, at a party held in their grandfather’s backyard. The police arrive in response to a noise complaint, and ask to see the grandfather’s ID. The family’s account says that he provided it, but the police report say that he refused; both accounts agree that the grandfather was then Tasered three times in rapid succession, on his own property, and then charged with ‘public intoxication.’ The pregnant mother of the two boys ran to help him as he lay on the ground — and was also Tasered, then charged with assaulting a police officer.
I’ll say it again — all parties agree that county police officers arrived at a children’s baptism party being held at a private residence, then Tasered a 55-year-old Bible study teacher three times and Tasered a pregnant woman once, in front of a yard full of kids, including her kids, and family members. Then they read rights. To the grandfather and the pregnant woman. For ‘public intoxication’ and ‘assaulting a police officer,’ respectively. As they lay temporarily paralyzed on the ground.
Can you imagine being one of those two boys, and watching as your own mother, pregnant with your sibling-to-be, is electrocuted by police officers and arrested, for rushing to the side of your grandfather as lay paralyzed on the ground? How would that make you feel about your relationship to the police, as a young Latino man about to grow up in the astonishingly xenophobic state of Virginia?
Michael Moore, a former resident of Martinsville, VA said he was forced to resign from the Virginia Museum of Natural History because he is gay. The state has no anti-discrimination law, just Governor Tim Kaine's (who is also the DNC chair) 2006 executive order. The courts have ruled that without legislation on the books, Moore has no recourse there. (Wash Blade):
According to Moore, during his evaluation in October 2006, the museum’s executive director, Tim Gette said, “Michael, there are board members that are aware you are gay, and I do not appreciate you hiding that from me.” Moore has said his evaluation qualified him for a pay increase, but he was still asked to resign the following month.
Michael Hamar, who’s gay and Moore’s attorney, said he’s “disappointed” in the court’s decision. “It looks as if they’re saying the executive order in 2006 doesn’t basically do anything,” Hamar said.
Through his spokesman, Kaine said the executive order would remain in effect, but as an internal policy. Workers who are fired or discriminated against because of their sexual orientation can seek redress through the state's personnel procedures, said spokesman Gordon Hickey.
That's less than adequate. The decision by the Martinsville court should be a convincing sign to the General Assembly that protection against such discrimination must be written into Virginia's code. Only a law will offer genuine confidence to Virginia's gay employees that they won't face irrational threats to their employment based on their sexual orientation.
Notably, trans protections are not called for, so whoever works on writing up a bill needs to get that on the radar.
The onslaught of bigotry at the state level continues, this time in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where Governor Tim Kaine has extended employment protection to state workers via executive order. This is what is currently in place, despite. Courtesy of attorney Michael Hamar:
While no Virginia statutes exist which bar employment discrimination against state employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity, by Executive Order 1 (2006), Governor Kaine continued a policy established by his predecessor, Mark Warner, which bars state agencies from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation. Executive Order 1 (2006) provides in relevant part as follows:
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY By virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor, I hereby declare that it is the firm unwavering policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia to assure equal opportunity in all facets of state government. This policy specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities.
This didn't sit well with the Attorney General. From Hamar's press release today (no link):
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE CHALLENGE POWER OF GOVERNOR TIM KAINE TO GRANT EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION TO STATE EMPLOYEES BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 1 (2006)
NORFOLK, Virginia, February 26, 2009
A just-filed pleading on behalf of the Virginia Museum of Natural History filed by the Virginia Attorney General's Office has denied the authority of Governor Tim Kaine to grant Virginia employees protections from employment discrimination based upon sexual orientation. The pleading states in relevant part:
"Sexual orientation is not a protected classification under either state or federal law. Attempts to make sexual orientation a protected category under the Virginia Human Rights Act have been continually and consistently rejected by the Virginia General Assembly. The only source of protection for this classification is provided by the Governor's Executive Order #1, which by itself, does not provide a cause of action. (Emphasis added)
Michael W. Moore, who has sought protection under Executive Order No. 1 (2006) was an employee of the Virginia Museum of Natural History until the late afternoon of November 14, 2006, when he maintains he was forced to involuntarily resign by former Museum Executive Director, Timothy Gette because Moore is gay. Prior to November 14, 2006, Moore had received an employee performance evaluation on October 20, 2006, in which he was evaluated as a "Contributor" based on the Employee Work Profile - Performance Evaluation form signed by both Gette and Nancy Bell, a/k/a Nancy Bell Dethlesfan, Moore's supervisor. This evaluation qualified Moore for a pay increase.
An appeal from a determination by the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management is now pending in the Circuit Court for the City of Martinsville, Virginia.
I wonder if this is only being placed on the windshields of cars in church parking lots in "the real" Virginia (you know, not the communist hotbed of Northern Virginia). Something this blunt isn't exactly going to win over independent voters (TPM):
The Virginia GOP is putting a flyer on cars outside churches in Virginia that compares the candidates' records on abortion and gay marriage and demands that voters "vote your values," a reader in Fairfax reports.
I know, I keep saying how you just can't make this stuff up, but here we go again...
Homobigot GOP Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia, a man who scored a "perfect" HRC scorecard zero every year since 2001, is the subject of an investigation by Mike Stark of Accountability Moments and Mike Rogers of BlogActive. It won't be popular with the fundie crowd.
So, how does an anti-gay Republican US Congressman come to support a movie that is filled with lots of gay sex and lots of drug use? Well, the best place to start is with Linwood Duncan, Goode's Press Secretary. Linwood is gay (an open secret in DC) and has aspirations to be a movie star. In 2003, Ed Henry, then with Roll Call, reported about Linwood and his dreams of the silver screen:
Who knew that Linwood Duncan, the unassuming press secretary for Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.), has been dabbling in acting on the side and turns up with a bit part in the new movie "Eden's Curve"?
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Duncan has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Sir Thomas More in dozens of shows in the D.C. and Charlottesville, Va., areas. He was approached by a longtime friend, Jerry Meadors, screenwriter and producer for "Eden's Curve."
You're thinking "what's the big deal?" Who cares if Roll Call wrote about a movie starring a right-wing Congressional staffer that was "especially popular at gay and lesbian film festivals across the country because the lead character gets mixed up in relationships with his male roommate..."?
I'll tell you who cares. The anti-earmark conservatives care and the anti-gay troglodytes care... A LOT!
Yes, and surf over to Mike's pad for documentation of Goode's involvement with the producer of that film. After his press secretary made his big screen debut in Eden's Curve, the anti-gay Goode felt motivated to earmark $150,000 of tax dollars for the theatre run by Meadors, where staffer and aspiring movie star Duncan also sits on the board!
Oh. My. God. Have the hypocrisy and cronyism meters blown up?
The questions raised by Stark and Rogers in the video:
* Why would a press secretary for an anti-gay GOP Congressman act in a gay art-house film? A film that thanks Goode and his wife, and Linwood Duncan in the credits!?
* How did it come to pass that Virgil Goode inserted a $150K earmark for Jerry Meador and the North Theatre after Linwood Duncan got his first big Hollywood break in Meador's film?
* What are the personal relationships between Goode, Duncan and Meadors?
* How does Virgil Goode square his condemnation of LGBT Americans while helping to make Eden's Curve?
* How many other films or projects exploring gay issues has Congressman Goode been involved with?
* Can we gain access to the documents showing how that $150K earmark of tax dollars was spent?
At BlogActive, where Mike has an action item to email legislators in Goode's district to ask the above questions about this, and 2) help send copies of Eden's Curve to the mailboxes of right-wing pastors in Goode's district to let them know what the Congressman has been supporting. It doesn't look like it squares with their world view.
UPDATE 2: Mike Rogers liked that photo of Larry Craig and Goode.
A local newspaper columnist, in a spoof of Obama's platform wrote in one recent piece that the Democrat would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black (a reference to a pro-Obama song by Ludacris), and divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." He joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars o the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, an that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama' inner-city political base."
The columnist, Bobby May, is also treasurer of the Buchanan Count Republican Party and was listed in a July news release as the county' representative on McCain's Virginia leadership team, though he said his column reflected his views alone, and he denied it was racist.
When they knew the sh*t was going to hit the fan, these were the statements released -- first the standard non-apology mea culpa:
"I offer a sincere apology to anyone that I may have offended with anything that I've written when expressing my personal opinions. Effective immediately, I have resigned my position as McCain Campaign Buchanan County Chair." -- Bobby Lee May
And then McCain camp ran for cover:
obby Lee May's comments about Barack Obama are offensive, insulting and have no place in political discourse. Mr. May's comments in no way, shape or form reflect the views or opinions held by John McCain or his campaign. The McCain campaign wholeheartedly disavows Mr. May's column. Mr. May is no longer a part of our campaign organization." - Gail Gitcho, McCain mid-Atlantic spokesman
The fact of the matter is, people like May represent part of The Base of the GOP, the voters McCain is counting on to go to the polls for him. Why do I get the idea that if May had the common sense not to air his bigotry out in the public sphere, McCain and Co., if alerted privately, would have been content to have a racist, homophobic person heading up an effort on his behalf.
Let's take a look at the whole horrible document below the fold.
On January 18, the last day for filing, Del. Adam Ebbin introduced HR 1493 in the Virginia House of Delegates:
Nondiscrimination in state public employment. Prohibits discrimination in state government employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or status as a special disabled veteran or other veteran covered by the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974.
The first thing I noticed was the conspicuous absence of gender identity protection. But looking at the language of the bill, gender identity is specifically included under the definition of "sexual orientation."
The relevant part of the bill:
no state agency, institution, board, bureau, commission, council, or instrumentality of the Commonwealth shall discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or status as a special disabled veteran or other veteran covered by the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974, as amended.
"Sexual orientation" means a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender identity or expression. This definition does not protect any person whose attraction is towards persons with whom sexual conduct would be illegal due to the age of the parties.
It would be very good news for LGBT rights in Virginia if this bill passed, so please support Equality Virginia as we go to Richmond this week to lobby for HR 1493.
My, my -- the wingnuts in the Virginia General Assembly clearly have nothing to fix or improve in their state. This is unbelievable.
State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers.
Under his measure, displaying the ornamentation on a motor vehicle would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $250.
...He said he won't hesitate to bring a set of $24.95 trailer testicles with him for a legislative show-and-tell.
"I'm going to do it," Spruill told a handful of reporters after Tuesday's House session adjourned. "I'm going to bring them out here and show them to you till they tell me to stop."
I just received an email from David Phillips, who you may know from his notoriety for disclosing the horrible exploitative encounter he had with Senator Larry Craig back in the 80s.
He also made the news for the absurd treatment he received from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles when it recalled his license plates for "obscenity." Somehow "POOFTER" must have become obscene overnight as Phillips has had the plates for 11 years before it hit the DMV radar.
The commonwealth of Virginia is not amused. It gave Phillips his vanity plates in error, Carolyn Easley, coordinator of the special license plates office, wrote in a recent letter. "You may have grown fond of your personalized plates," but they are "socially, racially or ethnically offensive or disparaging" and "you must return them."
Well someone reversed that thinking because David won the right to keep them:
This morning the Virginia DMV notified me by phone that I can keep my POOFTER plates. This after I returned directly to the head of the DMV the generic plates supplied with their hate letter, along with correspondence indicating my dedication to my First Amendment rights to self-identify in terms that meets no reasonable test for obscenity. I look forward to receiving the DMV's written apology for this incident.
In the neighboring state to the north, the District 39 race in Virginia is getting ugly, thanks to Republican State Senator James J. "Jay" O'Brien Jr. In a desperate bid to pander to the wingnut vote, he decided that sending out a flyer that says, among other things, that his Democratic opponent
"George Barker wants to take time away from core academic subjects like math, science, and reading to teach children to accept the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lifestyle (GLBT)."
It's no surprise that this flyer (PDF) was paid for by the Republican Party of Virginia.
It's clear that the right wing is ratcheting up the homo-hate as Barker has received the endorsement of the Washington Post.
Republican Sen. James J. "Jay" O'Brien Jr. is an affable incumbent, but his scant command of policy and legislative issues has failed to impress. His Democratic rival, George L. Barker, a health-care planner, would make a far more able, detail-oriented and effective senator in this district straddling the Fairfax-Prince William line.
Barker also has strong support from educators (I'm sure O'Brien feels they are part of the Homosexual Agenda anyway).
More from the heinous mailer -- he certainly telegraphs his priorities:
George Barker went on to say that he would vote for legislation that would teach Virginia students about the "GLBT" lifestyle during school hours -- regardless of their family's own beliefs. Barker also said he would "guarantee" his support for "GLBT" clubs in public schools.
...George Barker worked very hard in terms of opposing the marriage amendment, and be strongly in favor of gay rights, be [sic] he shouldn't impose his values on elementary school children.
A question for O'Brien - I suppose that kids in your state don't need to know about tolerance and families that are different, you know -- like that of little Samuel Cheney, a resident of Virginia and son of loyal Republican Mary Cheney.
Virginia Delegate Adam Ebbin (D-49 - Arlington County, Alexandria City and Fairfax County) is the only openly gay member of the General Assembly. He has a call out to help George Barker "take out the trash."
O'Brien began his career by touting anti-gay legislation to keep gays and lesbians from serving in the Virginia National Guard. We can not and must not let Virginia Republicans continue to get away with these George Allen/Ollie North/Karl Rove style tactics. Times have changed, and though anti-gay extremism may have helped O'Brien win election in 1993, let's show Virginia that anti-gay extremism can end his career now.
Please help my Virginia Progress Fund PAC combat such hateful tactics by donating on our special web page. I would like the Progress Fund to be able to present George Barker with a large contribution to help defeat extremist O'Brien. Please click here to help.
Employment is not the only area in which gays are subjected to discrimination. As I have noted, Virginia has no anti-discrimination laws that protect LGBT individuals. Therefore, it is surprising that the Canons of Judicial Conduct for the Commonwealth of Virginia contain the following provision:
"Canon 3.5. A judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice. A judge shall not, in the performance of judicial duties, by words or conduct manifest bias or prejudice, including but not limited to bias or prejudice based upon race, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status, and shall not permit staff, court officials and others subject to the judge's direction and control to do so. . . ."
Like so many things, however, the devil is in the application and enforcement of such provisions. As I have intimated, my divorce process has been a nightmare. While two of the Circuit Court judges that have been involved in my case have clearly followed the directive of Canon 3, the judge presiding over the last and most important hearing did not. Or at least not in my view. Therefore, I have filed a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission against this judge who in my view, allowed his personal views of gays to prejudice the handling and out come of the hearing. My Complaint, among other things, states that:
"Judge **** displayed prejudice and lack of impartiality against Complainant in respect to Complainants sexual orientation in violation of Canon 3 of the Canons of Judicial Conduct for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Judge **** failed to disqualify himself as required by Canon 3 and deprived Complainant of a fair and impartial trial and ruling."
Will I get proper relief? I have no idea and certainly will not be holding by breath. This is, after all Virginia, which has a terrible track record on its treatment of gays and LGBT individuals. The recently enacted "Marriage Amendment" to the Virginia Constitution and previous legislation clearly make gays second class citizens. Some members of the Virginia General Assembly have even remarked that they would be pleased if all gays packed up and left the state. Only time will tell if the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission will actually enforce Canon 3 in may case. God only knows what fall out will be forthcoming.
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) believes that it can "help people with unwanted same-sex attractions (SSA) realize their personal goals for change -- whether by developing their innate heterosexual potential or by embracing a lifestyle as a single, non-sexually active man or woman."
It wanted to take its message to the public schools as a counter to Gay-Straight Alliances, which allow students to openly discuss issues about their orientation without fear of reprisal. When the school board in Arlington County refused to allow PFOX access to distribute flyers, the ex-gay org filed a lawsuit. There has been a settlement. (365gay):
The agreement reached between the two sides to end the legal action gives PFOX the same access given to other groups and says the group can submit fliers for distribution to middle and elementary school students if it wishes.
A PFOX spokesperson said it is not planning on targeting younger students at this time. The school system said that it is not making a judgment on the message contained in the PFOX material.
The American Psychological Association last year issued a stinging rebuke of the so-called ex-gay movement. "There is simply no sufficiently scientifically sound evidence that sexual orientation can be changed," it said in a statement.
An attorney in Norfolk, Virginia, Michael Hamar, was appalled by the decision and fired off a letter to the Arlington County School Board. He sent to me today and said I could add it to the post. See it after the jump.
In a case that bounced between the jurisdictions of Vermont and Virginia and was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, a Vermont judge awarded Lisa Miller (formerly Miller-Jenkins) custody of her biological daughter, Isabella, though he mandated regular visitation rights for the girl's non-biological mother, Janet Jenkins (formerly Miller-Jenkins).
I've written about this case severaltimesbefore. I admit I was hoping the court would rule for Janet Jenkins to have primary custody; Lisa Miller's sudden conversion to being straight and her association with an ultra-conservative legal organization always seemed duplicitous and self-serving. She has, however, had custody of Isabella for the past two years, during which she did not let her see Jenkins. This was an awful thing to do, but perhaps "the best interests of the child" now mean keeping the continuity in her life. Perhaps, though, the judge simply falls into the "biology is everything" camp. It's hard to tell from here. This is a blow for non-bio moms; we can only hope it is to the benefit of Isabella.
The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a same-sex couple could be living together in a situation "similar `but not identical in form and substance' to a marriage."
Interestingly, the ruling stems from an opposite-sex couple's divorce, and is to the detriment of the ex-husband's now-openly-lesbian wife.
Yeah, we told you it was coming, folks. After the bible-thumping goons who successfully passed an amendment barring gays and lesbians from marrying (as well as civil unions and tossing private DP arrangements into legal jeopardy), it was only a matter of time before they went after hets. Misery loves company -- welcome aboard.
Maybe now straight folks will wake up and see what allowing the right to run wild has done to their state in the name of "protecting marriage." (365gay):
Now the Family Foundation of Virginia has begun a drive to end no-fault divorce in the state.
No-fault allows either partner in a marriage to get a divorce without specific grounds. That person can then apply for full custody rights over the couple's children. It currently is available in most states.
The Family Foundation says it makes divorce too easy to get and disadvantages children. It is supporting a proposed bill that would require specific grounds - such adultery - for couples with minor children.
"Right now, one spouse can unilaterally end [a marriage], and not only is their spouse unable to stop the divorce, their abandonment does not preclude them from having custody of their child," Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation told a news conference this week.
This is the same Virginia Cobb, who, during the amendment fight, unloaded this disingenuous statement before the measure was passed in November.
Victoria Cobb, executive director of the Family Foundation, the Richmond-based group that backed the 2004 law and the proposed constitutional amendment, said the goal isn't to drive gay people out. She said "extreme homosexual organizations" might be trying to frighten their members by circulating false information about the amendment. She said it wouldn't add new restrictions on gays but would simply underscore the ways their relationships are already restricted.
"I think it's extremely sad they would leave because of something they were never allowed to do anyway," said Cobb, who said she believed gays could go to court to defend themselves if a partner's family members challenged their right to own property in common, arrange powers of attorney or visit each other in the hospital.
Jeezus these folks are out of control. But we've been saying that all along.
Just not the anti-gay ones. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell knows his nuts are caught in one tight publicity vise with the emergence of Cro-magnon views in 
I just received an email from David Phillips, who you may know from his notoriety for disclosing the horrible 
In the neighboring state to the north, the District 39 race in Virginia is getting ugly, thanks to 
Virginia Delegate 
