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Ralph Northam’s Transformation of Virginia
The National Review ^ | April 17, 2020 | John Hirschauer

Posted on 04/18/2020 6:43:17 AM PDT by Jess Kitting

Like many people of faith, Virginia governor Ralph Northam spent last weekend bearing witness to his convictions. On Good Friday, he signed the Reproductive Health Protection Act (RHPA) into law, which, among other things, waived the 24-hour waiting period, pro-adoption counseling, and mandatory ultrasound that had been previously required for women seeking abortions. On Holy Saturday, Northam signed the Virginia Values Act, a bill recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories under Virginia’s anti-discrimination law. As has happened in other states with similar laws, the bill imperils the conscience rights of people of faith, as well as those who remain unconvinced that a man can become a woman just by saying so. On Easter Sunday, Northam rested from all the work that he had done.

After signing the RHPA into law, Northam’s office released a statement boasting that “no more will legislators in Richmond — most of whom are men — be telling women what they should and should not be doing with their bodies.” It was a strange thing for Northam to brag about, considering that he would sign a law not 24 hours later requiring businesses to recognize that men who identify as women are, for all legal purposes, women. If businesses in the Commonwealth of Virginia are required under threat of civil sanction to affirm that men, too, can get pregnant, the least that the governor could do is apologize for his insinuation to the contrary.

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I don't know how much of this is satire, but this Northam guy is one sick puppy.
1 posted on 04/18/2020 6:43:17 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Jess Kitting

None of it is satire.


2 posted on 04/18/2020 6:45:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jess Kitting

His day is coming.....and he ain’t gonna like it.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 6:46:52 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Jess Kitting

Governor Coon Man strikes again.


4 posted on 04/18/2020 6:52:27 AM PDT by trublu
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To: Jess Kitting

Governor blackface baby killer has an appointment with Satan.

5.56mm


5 posted on 04/18/2020 6:53:59 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: M Kehoe

He’s a mealy mouthed sob. That was my Grandpa’s favorite description for people like governor butt face.


6 posted on 04/18/2020 6:57:46 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: central_va
PDJT sure called VS out yesterday in the briefing on the 2nd Amendment infringements.😠
7 posted on 04/18/2020 7:01:19 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Jess Kitting

I welcome the people of Virginia to the ‘paradise’ that is California.
Oh, and it’s okay to hate democrats.


8 posted on 04/18/2020 7:03:14 AM PDT by glasseye ( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
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To: HighSierra5

The man doesn’t appear to have any common sense. What other things does he advocate?


9 posted on 04/18/2020 7:04:30 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Jess Kitting

He sold his soul to the NAACP and their puppeteers to keep his job after the blackface affair.


10 posted on 04/18/2020 7:05:23 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: rktman

I’m lost. What does VS stand for?


11 posted on 04/18/2020 7:06:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: M Kehoe
I think I'll identify as a woman, ask for an abortion, and then sue for discrimination when they don't provide one. By the way, my imaginary son is named Pedro and I want SNAP, welfare, section 8 housing, and I'm going to declare him as a dependant on my taxes this year😃
12 posted on 04/18/2020 7:08:45 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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Are there enough anti-Northams to vote him out of office?

Speaking here for California where the idiot leftist governor has an over 90% approval rating - because his voting base is illegals, hard-core leftists, Hollywood types, young, dumb SWJs - and there are finally enough of them voting here to entrench the likes of Newsom, Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Shiff and other far-left pols.

IOW, there’s no getting them out at this point - Pelosi was just re-elected by a huge margin.

Hope Virginia is not there.


13 posted on 04/18/2020 7:10:55 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby)
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To: HighSierra5

Code name for VA apparently. Fat morning fingers and not on my 2nd cup yet. DOH!


14 posted on 04/18/2020 7:17:25 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

“VA” not “vs”. DOH!


15 posted on 04/18/2020 7:17:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Bon of Babble

He can’t run again this time. VA governors cannot serve two terms consecutively.


16 posted on 04/18/2020 7:26:56 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!! (this post approved by the NSA))
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To: Bon of Babble

“...Are there enough anti-Northams to vote him out of office?...”
Per VA law, I don’t believe he can run for another term.
Anyway, I was referring to the day he stands before the Lord for his crimes against humanity.
It wound’t be a bit surprising to see many of VA border counties join up with WVA to get away from the communists. Can’t say as I rightly blame em.


17 posted on 04/18/2020 7:27:15 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Jess Kitting

Northam is destroying Virginia. Thanks to a weak state GOP and the overwhelmingly liberal Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria counties (to some extent Loudon too) Virginia has been turned blue. It’s disgusting and depressing.


18 posted on 04/18/2020 7:28:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Are there enough votes to remove Northam as governor?

We had a petition for his recall. He changed the required percentage (I think it was 10%) to something like 20 or 25%.

Can’t win.


19 posted on 04/18/2020 7:29:31 AM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: glasseye

When the rats get full power they don’t fool around. They fast tracked every item on their wish list for the last ten years. Including rigged election laws which will keep them in power. This is how you conduct war. They don’t have fraud gatekeepers like Ryan and Mitch who toss out crumbs to the base.


20 posted on 04/18/2020 7:31:46 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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