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New Virginia Law Alarms Gay Activists
AP ^ | 05/25/2004 | JUSTIN BERGMAN

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.''

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.netscape.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; imsuperthanks4asking; lavendermafia; prisoners; sodomite; vageneralassembly; virginiaisforlovers
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To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...

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.


41 posted on 05/25/2004 9:20:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah ("Gay Marriage" - a Weapon of Mass. Destruction!)
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To: longtermmemmory
tsk, tsk, tsk

LOL!

42 posted on 05/25/2004 9:21:04 PM PDT by Militiaman7 (Mr. President why are we pussyfooting around with these fanatics. Take the gloves off!)
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To: Land of the Irish

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....


43 posted on 05/25/2004 9:21:31 PM PDT by Spirited
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
"Too bad, so sad! I'll move there after you move out. Sounds like my kind of state!"

Come on over, we could use a few more Freepers!

44 posted on 05/25/2004 9:24:54 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: longtermmemmory

That was funny!


45 posted on 05/25/2004 9:25:59 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Jonah Hex
Noisy buggers, aren't they?

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.

46 posted on 05/25/2004 9:53:14 PM PDT by Nick Danger (With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
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To: Redcoat LI

So both the humans have the same name? What is the dogs name?


47 posted on 05/25/2004 10:06:45 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: Land of the Irish

"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.


48 posted on 05/25/2004 10:15:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Nick Danger

"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....;))


49 posted on 05/25/2004 11:51:22 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: ellery
Guess you must have flunked out of law school. An agreement between two parties is only a contract at law subject to very specific conditions, which condtions vary BY JURISDICTION.

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.

50 posted on 05/26/2004 12:16:18 AM PDT by SAJ (Buy 1 NGF05 8.00 call, Sell 3 NGF05 11.00 calls against, for $500 credit OB.)
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To: Militiaman7

What convention?


51 posted on 05/26/2004 4:23:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Nick Danger
Yep, I remember the last cicada invasion oh so many years ago. Luckily, we managed to miss the majority of them down here in Tidewater but I still hear them as I drive by on my way to Aberdeen.

(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?)

52 posted on 05/26/2004 4:27:50 AM PDT by Jonah Hex (Another day, another DU troll.)
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To: Polycarp IV
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.

Hey, the NAACP is still boycotting SC because of our confederate war memorial...come on down.

53 posted on 05/26/2004 4:38:31 AM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: Michael.SF.

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!)


54 posted on 05/26/2004 4:51:48 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (The Democrats must be defeated in 2004)
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To: Askel5

"Was it New Mexico whose healthcare system was so gay-friendly it collapsed entirely? "

That and the illegal Mexicans flooding the system!


55 posted on 05/26/2004 4:53:41 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (The Democrats must be defeated in 2004)
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To: little jeremiah
Bump


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)


Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues"

56 posted on 05/26/2004 6:41:50 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname

"Sounds like my kind of state"

It is my kind of state, errrr correction COMMONWEALTH.


57 posted on 05/26/2004 8:13:54 AM PDT by Mark in the Old South
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To: AppyPappy

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)


58 posted on 05/26/2004 9:08:59 AM PDT by Militiaman7 (Mr. President why are we pussyfooting around with these fanatics. Take the gloves off!)
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To: SAJ

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.


59 posted on 05/26/2004 4:50:56 PM PDT by ellery (Was Abe Lincoln a "chickenhawk?")
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To: Texas Eagle
"Bo Shuff,"

Man, you can't make this stuff up..

60 posted on 05/26/2004 4:53:14 PM PDT by justanotherday
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