Virginia AG orders colleges to stop protecting gays

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/virginia-orders-colleges-stop-protecting-gays/

By Daniel Tencer
Friday, March 5th, 2010 -- 5:27 pm

Officials and student leaders at Virginia colleges are reacting mutedly, so far, to an order from state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that the schools stop protecting LGBT students.

In a letter (PDF) sent to the state's public colleges and universities and obtained by the Washington Post, Cuccinelli declared that the schools don't have the authority to uphold bans on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation when the state itself has no such ban.

[marmar]

1. Good grief. He's turning out to be worse than feared.....and that was pretty bad.

nt

[joeybee12]

2. No, then he's saying towns and cities don't have that right, when legally,

they do...he's just a worthless POS and is trying to scare them into abiding by his ignorance.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Too bad so many 'progressives' didn't show up to vote in VA last November. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Jeebus. They're the Duggars.

[SoCalNative]

7. No just Catholics

who don't know when to stop

[texanwitch]

10. Wonder if any of the kids are gay, at least one.

The odds are good that is the case.

Poor kids.

[UndertheOcean]

5. what an assholish thing to do

Do Right wingers have no sense of decency or shame?

[MrCoffee]

6. Legally, this is an interesting issue

Apparently in VA, orientation discrimination was prohibited by Executive Order, which was rescinded last month.

[Neurotica]

9. And VA is a Dillon Rule state, which means that localities can't make a lot of

their own rules; instead, the General Assembly has to pass laws. For instance, my school district wanted to start school earlier, but didn't have the authority to make that decision on its own and had to get a legislator to propose a bill, which failed (as usual.)

Whether or not the universities have legal authority to add sexual orientation to their non-discrimination policies is almost beside the point because the fact is that no one -- not even Bob McDonnell when he was AG -- chose to challenge these policies in the past.

Cuccinelli is obsessed -- I can't believe we have to endure 4 years of this. I knew it was going to be bad but reality is proving to be worse than I had imagined.

[ck4829]

8. The Christian Taliban attacks