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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Homosexual Agenda Ping - I don't think I pung this one yet, although there was an article about VA yesterday - so much is going on that it's hard to keep track!
Good news for the good guys. Heheheh.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
LOL!
It's only spectacular if they do not back down and I admit to being a skeptic on that point.
They can get out of this without even turning a hair....
Come on over, we could use a few more Freepers!
That was funny!
Tell me about it. The air conditioner failed, so I had the windows open. The 1950's flying-saucer-movie noise was everywhere, but there was also a periodic EEEeeeowww noise that started out like a mechanical buzz and tapered off like a howling cat. I could not figure out what that was, until one of the damned things took up residence on the screen of my window.
EEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWWWW.
Oh. So the 'flying saucer' noise is really ten million eeeeooows going on simultaneously. They're ugly, too.
So both the humans have the same name? What is the dogs name?
"Gays and lesbians are angry and even threatening to leave the state ..." Must be a reasonable law to limit the empowerment of degenerates. I wonder how we can get such laws in Tennessee so the degenerates will leave our state? Massatwosh!ts will welcome the degenerates. Fill that liberal cesspool up.
"the 'flying saucer' noise"
More specifically, it's the sound of the Martian ships in "War of the Worlds".
Thank heaven somebody else made the connection...I was starting to worry about myself....;))
Contract Law 101: A contract is only valid and enforceable when the jurisdiction under which the contract has been entered AFFIRMS its validity.
Don't take my word for it; ask your personal attorney. Now, any other ''questions'' about ''legal'' contracts between two adults? How about the ''legality'' of two adults formally contracting, in writing, with consideration deemed appropriate on both sides (what?!? you never heard of ''consideration''? wow!), that one sodomise the other at high noon on June 1st on the Capitol steps in Richmond? Is this a contract that is valid and enforceable at law, hotshot?
I'd wager 98-99% of FReepers get the answer to that Q correctly, never mind legal training on their part or not. And I'd even be tempted to make a small wager, two actually: 1) that you won't respond to this post, and if you do, your response will re-betray your pissanthood, and you will whine throughout about state ''interference'' with private contracts, and 2) your response won't have any coherent comment about real-world contract law, its administration, its enforcement, or its underlying premises.
Send for the WAHHHHmbulance, queen.
That would, of course, be -- per your handle -- ellery queen.
What convention?
(As a kid in NC, we used to collect and trade their shells with each other. Who needed Yu-Gi-Oh when you had cicadas?)
Hey, the NAACP is still boycotting SC because of our confederate war memorial...come on down.
My response to the Gays...Don't let the door knobs slam themselves into your ----s on your way out of the state's doors!
Economically I think we'll do just fine with-out you!
(or we'll do without!)
"Was it New Mexico whose healthcare system was so gay-friendly it collapsed entirely? "
That and the illegal Mexicans flooding the system!
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"Sounds like my kind of state"
It is my kind of state, errrr correction COMMONWEALTH.
The Virginia Rat convention at the Hotel Roanoke. Hopefully JFKerry show up, The main speaker is Max Cleland (he was in Vietnam, so was Kerry)
Wow, that's some serious animosity to my pretty benign question. My question was more related to WHY Virginia would bother -- not whether the Commonwealth has a right to do so. But hey, if it puffs you up to set up straw men and knock them down via the Internet, feel free.
Man, you can't make this stuff up..
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