Tag Archives: Virginia

Via press release from AFER: On Thursday, January 30, 2014, the first hearing in the Virginia marriage equality case of Bostic v. Rainey will be held at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen. The Bostic Plaintiffs’ lawsuit – first filed in July 2013 in Norfolk – argues that the Virginia …

“Dear Joe, Radical homosexuals are checking my garbage. If they see Public Advocate’s treasury depleted they will see an opening to ram through the Gay Bill of Special Rights, the Homosexual Classrooms Act and National Homosexual ‘Marriage.’ Without your financial support and prayers, Public Advocate would be nothing — totally helpless against the radical homosexuals’ assault on our families. The …

And the hits just keep coming! Via a joint press release from Lambda Legal and the ACLU: A federal court denied a motion from the Staunton Circuit Court Clerk today seeking dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples. The lawsuit, filed earlier this year on behalf of two couples by the American Civil Liberties Union, …

Openly gay Virginia state Sen. Adam Ebbin today introduced a bill to repeal that state’s constitutional ban on marriage. There’s a long road ahead, however. To repeal the 2006 amendment, legislation would have to pass the General Assembly two times with an intervening election, then would go on the ballot in the next succeeding general election. If it won first …

“Dear Joe, I’ve been putting off sending you this letter for a while because I didn’t want to worry you. But late one night while sorting through pro-Family petitions from supporters like you, a thug crept in through a door, threw a blanket over my head and pummeled me with a rock. Thankfully, one of my volunteers heard when I …

Clip recap: Marriage equality is law in Illinois, but questions remain over when marriages can actually start. Virginia voters could have a chance to overturn that state’s marriage ban, and polling is surprisingly strong. Lawsuits advance this week in Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and there’s more bad news for the National Organization for Marriage.

Virginia’s WDBJ reports: A Liberty University student is dead after an altercation with a Liberty University Emergency Services Officer on Tuesday morning at an off-campus residence hall. According to the school, a Liberty University Emergency Services Officer was attacked by a male student in the lobby of Residential Annex II. The student was shot and killed. The officer was taken …

“Dear Joe, Tomorrow is Day #5 of Public Advocate’s Emergency Battleground Action Initiative. So far we’ve raised over $17,000 thanks to an outpouring of support from pro-Family Public Advocate supporters like you. Unfortunately, we’re almost halfway to our deadline of November 17th and we are falling behind the pace needed to meet our goal. If we want to reach the …

“Dear Joe, If you haven’t heard, the Gay Bill of Special Rights just passed in the Senate for the first time ever on Thursday. Public Advocate threw everything we had at the bill in the Senate. We stalled the vote for months as Harry Reid sought a filibuster-proof 60 supporters. But we spent nearly everything we had doing it. Now …

Via the Human Rights Campaign: Signaling a new day for LGBT equality in Virginia, Democrat Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe said in his first press conference that his first executive order will be to ban discrimination against LGBT state employees. “In his first day as Governor-elect, Terry McAuliffe has declared a new day for LGBT equality in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” said …

“They said he was ‘unelectable. The RNC put only $3 million into this race. Ken was outspent by a margin of something between 4:1 and 10:1, if you believe the Associated Press. The Democrats poured everything into trying to lie to voters and portray Cuccinelli as an extremist — and they barely pulled this one out. Would another $3 million …

Let’s hope this sticks… UPDATE: CNN calls it too.

E.W. Jackson, the raging homophobe who lied about gay people and then lied about having lied, has lost his bid for Virginia lieutenant governor. The scary part is that he didn’t lose by all that much.

For months the Tea People have been screaming the Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis is Nader-ing Ken Cuccinelli out of the governor’s mansion. Today on Breitbart: In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Wes Benedict, co-founder and President of the Libertarian Booster PAC that spent $11,454 to circulate petitions necessary to get Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis on the …

Pat Boone is in Virginia today to help the reelection bid of teabagger state Del. David Ramadan. Delguadio crows: “I drafted Pat Boone to run for President of the United States some years ago, he in turn endorsed me for re-election and so he is familiar with Sterling and is a friend of Sterling. Sterling is honored that he would …

“Dear Joe, Public Advocate has been holding off a vote on S.815, the Gay Bill of Special Rights, since it moved out of Committee in July. We’ve held the line for months. But last Friday, I learned through insider sources that Harry Reid and the Homosexual Lobby were ready to make their last big push. You see, they have enough …

God ignored Virginia lieutenant governor candidate EW Jackson AND his church when they fasted against the election of President Obama. But Sky Daddy snapped to attention after he realized what he’d done and immediately created the Tea Party.