Virginia Attorney General Tells Colleges to Back Off on Gay Rights Policies

[democracy1st]

Virginia's conservative attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli II, wants the state's public colleges and universities to pull back on policies banning discrimination against gay students because he says the schools don't have the legal authority to make those kinds of rules.

In a letter to the schools on Thursday, Cuccinelli argued that only Virginia's General Assembly can establish legal protections based on sexual orientation -- not the universities' governing boards of visitors, the Washington Post reported.

Cuccinelli, a Republican elected in November, seemed to be signaling to the academic community that he intends to take a harder line on social issues such as gay rights, the Post said.

"It is my advice that the law and policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation' 'gender expression,' or like classificaiton as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy, absent specific authorization from the General Assembly," he wrote.


http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/06/virginia-attorney-general-tells-colleges-to-back-off-on-gay-righ/

[saltpoint]

1. There are at this hour, as there have been before and will be later,

young women and men who are lesbian or gay who attend State colleges in Virginia and elsewhere and of whom their parents, brothers, sisters, other kin, teachers, and close friends are deeply and understandably proud.

For Cuccinelli to miss this point of essence suggests a deep-boned meanness in him. May shame visit him for a very long stay and keep him from ever advancing beyond his current post which he plainly does not deserve to hold.

[msongs]

2. are u picking on his religion lol nt

[saltpoint]

3. : )

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