VIRGINIA: Gay marriage constitutional amendment passes in landslide

[Bluebear]

Sigh...

RICHMOND, Va. - A proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Virginia easily won final approval Saturday by both chambers of the General Assembly. The House of Delegates voted 79-17, and the Senate voted 30-10 to pass the final version of the amendment.

Virginia law already prohibits same-sex marriages. However, many legislators argued that an amendment is necessary to ensure that courts do not force Virginia to recognize gay marriages or civil unions performed in other states.

One opponent of the measure, Democratic state Delegate Albert Pollard, said he does not support gay marriage, but he does not see it as a threat to traditional values that warrants amending the Constitution.

"This is an issue that needs to be viewed like McCarthyism," Pollard said. "We are not threatened by gay marriage. We are threatened by our overreaction to it."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050226/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_virginia

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

1. Neanderthals.

[The Zanti Regent]

18. I guess Virginia ain't for lovers anymore...

...unless they are straight white KKKristian RepubliKKKans

[ultraist]

22. Virginia is for haters...

[reichstag911]

2. Three cheers...

...for Pollard, at least. A great big "fuck you" to the 79 ignorant, redneck homophobes, though.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Can someone challenge it as unconstitutional?

[BamaLefty]

5. So It Wont Be On The Ballot In An Election Year?

If so, that is the thin line of good news. The Repukes would eat that alive! :eyes:

[fairfaxvadem]

11. It's going to be a nasty election as it is.

And now that it looks to be a 3-way race, these wedge issues are really going to be played up.

I'm speaking of Va's gov race this November, on edit.

[Pushed To The Left]

21. That would be great

I love hearing the sounds of pain and agony from the right wing as their bullshit gets struck down by the courts! Nothing makes the theocrats madder!

www.aclu.org
www.pfaw.org

[Solly Mack]

4. Virginia is for Haters

[LostInAnomie]

14. Virginia is for lovers*

* - unless you a dirty queer. Straight missionary style sex ONLY.

[Solly Mack]

16. hehe you said missionary style

oh, the images... :)

[ultraist]

23. LOL! I didn't see your post before I posted mine...ooops

[Solly Mack]

24. GMTA

:hi:

[fairfaxvadem]

6. We've got monumental traffic problems...

And they're wasting time on this?

I don't think the Commonwealth will ever get out of the 19th century. No wonder it hasn't coughed up a President since before the civil war.

Hard to believe it's the same place that gave us Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mason.

[Blue_Tires]

10. um...Woodrow Wilson?

he was at least born in VA

[fairfaxvadem]

13. Ah, Wilson...

Okay, I was trying to go down the list in my head, and I always have a big blur with our early 20th cent presidents after roosevelt.

thanks for the reminder.

[Bluebear]

12. 'coughed up a President'

I like that :)

[mmonk]

7. It's quite pathetic

to devote so much time and effort to hate.

[LostInAnomie]

8. That's one more Red state where the Repukes won't be able to put...

... the measure to a vote during a presidential race. That's the only silver lining I can see.

[d_b]

9. Some day..most Americans will look back at the gay marriage

issue and ponder, 'wtf was wrong with the country during that era'?

Hopefully this happens in my lifetime.

[LostInAnomie]

17. That's what I think about it.

Someday the hateful demagoguery will lose its potency and people will look rationally at the subject. Then we'll look back at this time like we look at southern states during the civil rights era.

[Vickers]

15. Good! Now no more of our young men will fall in love with each other.

:eyes:

[Borgnine]

19. God, I hate living here.

We're on the verge of going blue with northern VA, but the good old boys still run the show.

[Nay]

20. I hate living here, too, Borgnine. It truly is the RW armpit of the

world. Talk about drinking the Kool Aid -- these people swim in the stuff.