| New Virginia Law Alarms Gay Activists
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Posted on 05/25/2004 8:12:02 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gay activists in Virginia are toying with a new motto for the state: ``Virginia is for lovers. Some restrictions apply.''
Gays and lesbians are angry and even threatening to leave the state over a new law that will prohibit civil unions and could interfere with contracts between same-sex couples.
Some legal experts call it the most restrictive anti-gay law in the nation.
``I won't buy a home in Virginia. I'm done,'' said Bo Shuff, a 30-year-old gay rights activist who has rented in the Washington suburb of Arlington for the past two years.
Edna Johnston, a lesbian who has scuttled plans to move her historic preservation consulting business from Washington to northern Virginia, said: ``It's not a signal, it's a message: `You're not welcome.'''
The new law is an amendment to the state's 1997 Affirmation of Marriage Act, which prohibits gay marriages. The amendment extends that ban to civil unions, partnership contracts and other ``arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage.''
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Hopefully more states will do this!
Ping
That's perfect!
Too bad, so sad! I'll move there after you move out. Sounds like my kind of state!
Now, why would VA interfere with legal contracts between two adults? That's taking it too far.
God Bless Virginia!
Thank you!
Wow. Here I thought the Virginai legislature was a pack of spineless scumbags after they voted for a huge tax increase that it turns out they never even needed thanks to the expanding Bush economy.
Ahh, what the heck - - any scumbag who voted for more taxes should STILL be voted out of office, regardless of how they voted on this common sense measure to protect the institution of the family.
Is that a really threat or actually a promise?
| New Virginia Law Alarms Gay Activists
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=== The new law is an amendment to the state's 1997 Affirmation of Marriage Act, which prohibits gay marriages. The amendment extends that ban to civil unions, partnership contracts and other ``arrangements between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage.''
Excellent.
Was it New Mexico whose healthcare system was so gay-friendly it collapsed entirely?
A lesson to be learned there. Absent availing themselves of some fake "right" to have children (procuring the Prize embryos and leaving the seconds to profiteers in the "humanitarian research" biz), not a chance in hell homosexuals can fulfill the obligations inherent in the marriage contract where Society is concerned.
Go Virginia................
Maybe the place to be if everyone else gives in....nice job VA!!
"You won't have us to kick around anymore,come on fluffy We're moving to Boston!"
WOW!!! Go baby GO!!!
If it is that easy to get rid of homosexuals then let the legislating begin!
This would leave Boston as the homosexual Mecca.
If Virginia had the guts to change their motto thus, I'd spend every vacation dollar I've got over the next decade vacationing there only.
Any chance Western Pennsylvania could apply for annexation to your great state (minus the Commie loving ares of Pittsburgh)?
Either that, or he had a pantload of cicadas. Noisy buggers, aren't they?
I think it would be a nice gesture to turn Mass. over to them. Everyone should have a home where they feel welcome.
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So that's what that was. I was walking through old town Alexandria yesterday and there was some guy behind me making a noise like a robbed bank. So they've alarmed them now? Damn.