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Lynchburgh, Virginia Circuit Court Judge F. Patrick Yeatts has sided with Gun Owners of America and Virginia Citizens Defense League and rejected the attempt by Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones to resume requiring background checks on the private transfers of firearms. In a ruling delivered from the bench after a hearing on Thursday, Yeatts declared that his previously-issued injunction on Virginia's universal background check scheme is still intact, despite Democrats' efforts to do an end-run around the injunction. [.....] Yeatts has been dealing with this issue for several years now, and has previously ruled that adults under...

Soulforce Press Release: September 12, 2002 For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Montgomery Rutt Cell: 717-278-0592 ******************************************* (Lynchburg, VA) Rev. Mel White and his life partner of more than twenty years, Gary Nixon, co-founders of Soulforce, Inc., have leased a home in Lynchburg, VA, right across the street from Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church. Falwell, a conservative minister, televanglist, and chancellor of Liberty University, is notorious for his condemnation of gays and lesbians. "When we met with Falwell and his supporters in 1999, he promised us that he would tone down his rhetoric against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people,"...