The World According To ChrisGraham.com: A long way to go on civil rights
Headline: Christian group can’t bar gays, get funding.
Politically, the 5-4 split isn’t a surprise, except maybe in that the 5-4 split was on the side of moral sense and common sense regarding anti-discrimination policies involving gays and lesbians.
The 5-4 split is a clear surprise in light of moral and common sense on the issue. Seriously, what sense does it make to continue systematizing discrimination in the sexual-orientation arena?
Aside from the political, that is. Just sayin’ – there are plenty enough people out there motivated by hate to act out politically.
Which is why our public policies on GLBT civil rights are still held hostage.
Link to column on TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com.
Focus | A move toward equity
Kaine proposes employee-benefits policy change
Story by Chris Graham
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The Kaine administration, in a sort of last act as its final days count down, has proposed a change in state policy that would allow state employees to choose between covering a spouse or an “otherwise qualfied adult” on their employee plus one health-care policies.
The policy could be on its way to becoming a political hotbutton with the conservative Family Foundation of Virginia trying to whip up opposition to what it perceives an attempt to run an end-around to the marriage amendment passed in 2006 on the one side and the gay civil-rights lobby Equality Virginia and leaders at public colleges and universities across the Commonwealth leading the charge in the direction of change on the other.
The review period for the proposed change could aid in putting the issue on track to political-controversy status, because the policy will in the end need to gain the approval of the gubernatorial administration of Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, a social-conservative Republican for whom the matter could be an important bellwether. Continue reading “Focus | A move toward equity” »
The 100 Percenters
All four Republican incumbents running for re-election in the Augusta Free Press/New Dominion Magazine reader/circulation area received 100 percent scores on The Family Foundation Action’s 2008-2009 General Assembly Report Card. Continue reading “The 100 Percenters” »
Chris Graham: Thanks, Bob, for letting us know
Posted by afp on June 3, 2011 · 1 Comment
“I do not believe that a celebration of ‘gay pride’ has anything to do with the mission of the Federal Reserve under the Federal Reserve Act passed by Congress,” the Republican state legislator wrote in a letter to the president of the bank that his office shared with the news media on Thursday.
“This is a celebration of a behavior that is still a class six felony in Virginia. How can the American people trust the judgement of the Federal Reserve as an institution when its spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals?” Marshall asked.
Which raises the question – Virginia still has a law on the books regarding what goes on in the private bedrooms of consenting adult partners here in our fair Commonwealth?
Another question – wonder if we still have miscegenation laws active in the state code?
But anyway, thanks, Bob, for letting us know. Looks like we have some code-cleaning to do.
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