Sexual Orientation is not a Political Position

Leesburg Today
February 25, 2005
By David Weintraub
President, Equality Loudoun
You would think from reading the local papers recently that there were no more important public policy questions facing Virginians than those having to do with the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. A remarkable number of bills addressing this topic were considered in this General […]

House backs letting firms extend health benefits

Richmond Times-Dispatch
February 25, 2005
By Pamela Stallsmith
By one vote, the House of Delegates yesterday agreed to let businesses extend health-insurance coverage beyond spouses and dependent children to others such as siblings, in-laws or domestic partners.
The House voted 49-48 on the bill sponsored by Sen. Janet Howell, D-Fairfax, that would let the insurer and employer decide who […]

Play Confronts Rumors

Recent Stone Bridge controversy makes “The Wrestling Season” appropriate fare for playgoers.
Loudoun Connection
February 24, 2005
By Suzannah Evans
A one-act play that will have its Loudoun premiere next weekend has a timely subject: rumors floating around a high school about sexuality.
The play, “The Wrestling Season,” by Laurie Brooks, will be presented by Arlington Outreach at Unitarian Universalists […]

Use energies elsewhere

Loudoun Easterner
February 23, 2005
By Renee Dean
Re: the article from the Feb. 9 edition regarding the Stone Bridge High School play: Mr. Staton states “why are different groups allowed to offend the beliefs of Christians with impunity?” I am hoping that he is speaking only for himself and those who are just as close-minded as he […]

A marriage amendment is a lost cause - by definition

Roanoke Times
February 20, 2005
By G.F. Pranzarone
Pranzarone is a professor of psychology at Roanoke College.
A hot issue in the last election was whether a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman should be proposed. According to a recent Associated Press story, Karl Rove insists that President Bush will work toward […]

Voters expected to be passionate about marriage

Groups such as Equality Virginia may organize meetings before the issue comes to a vote.
The Roanoke Times
February 20, 2005
By Cody Lowe
As the Virginia General Assembly takes the first steps toward amending the state constitution to ban gay marriages, the debate over that issue - which ultimately must be decided by voters - is already moving […]

Tolerance a Christian Value

Washington Post Loudoun Extra
February 20, 2005
By Mike Brady
At the risk of appearing to “pile on,” I would like to add a few thoughts regarding the Stone Bridge High School drama that has offended so many politicians and their supporters. [”Gay-Themed High School Play Sparks Va. Protests,” Metro, Feb. 9].
My son dragged me to see “Postcards […]

Animal House rules in the state House

The Virginian-Pilot
February 18, 2005
If you’ve tried in vain to make sense out of the nuttiness and excess that has passed as legislation in the House of Delegates (of which the britches bill is but the most conspicuous example), Leo Wardrup has some comforting advice: Don’t take it too seriously, because we don’t.
“A lot of bills […]

And the survey says …

Local Dems upset with GOP-sponsored survey
Augusta Free Press
February 18, 2005
By Chris Graham
Former Harrisonburg mayor Joe Fitzgerald obviously didn’t give the computer the response that it wanted.
Answering his phone one night last week, Fitzgerald, the former chairman of the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee, was asked by a computer-generated interviewer whether or not he supports the existence of […]

Anti-gay adoption bill killed

The star witness for the bill’s sponsor faces harsh criticism from a Senate committee.

The Daily Press
February 17, 2005
By John M.R. Bull
RICHMOND — Hostile state senators attacked a bill that would make it harder for gays and lesbians to adopt as both discriminatory and unnecessary before loudly voting to kill the measure Wednesday.
Along the way, they […]

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