Yet another reason I will not live in Virginia

[ellid]

The state Attorney General has advised public universities that they cannot include GLBT individuals in their non-discrimination policies, even voluntarily, because there's no *state* non-discrimination law.

That's right. He's telling schools to *rescind* their non-discrimination policies.

In Virginia.

In 2010.


Sickening.

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

The is a special kind of insanity that touches Virginia politics, which is epitomized by Ken Cuccinnelli, bless his wee little heart.

Virginia is a state trying to figure itself out. There are a lot of dichotomies they are dealing with. The biggest would be the class issues. The whole of Virginia south and west of the Rappahannock River (Fredericksburg) resents NoVa with various shades of fiery passions.

It's too citified, too many carpet baggers, too affluent, not really Virginia, etc. But, the reality is, that the taxes brought into the coffers by the residents and businesses of NoVa are indispensible and it pisses other Virginians off.

Even those of us who count ourselves as liberals often have conservatives stripes. I'm pro-choice and pro-gun (I'd like to be able to shoot my rapist, thank you very much ;-p); though not pro-gun enough to think that allowing guns into bars is a good idea.

Other dichotomies include urban/rural; educated/not; whites/hispanics (occasionally, white/African American, but not often) and others.

Virginia, since before I've been able to vote, has had a tendency to flip flop the party of governors. They'll be a couple of Republicans and then a couple of Democrats, and then a swing back to the other party, and so on. We were the first state to freely elect an African American (Doug Wilder) as Governor.

But we do have the tendency to pick some doozies as Republicans. **sigh**

I hope the Universities hold their ground and take this wiener to court or vice versa and the Universities prevail.

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

me to VA's atty gen'l:

fold it and stuff it.

Very sincerely yours.

[orphandani.livejournal.com]

Makes me even more glad I didn't vote for him. Le sigh...