Other Voices: Club bill a thinly veiled threat

Wonderful op-ed by two high school students.
“Schools do not exist to protect their students from reality and the challenges it presents. They do exist to prepare and educate people for their entrance into the real world and to ensure that they will have the skills and knowledge to run a successfully functioning nation when it […]

AG Opinion Endorses Discrimination

Equality Virginia: Attorney General Opinion Endorses Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Virginians
(Richmond) – Equality Virginia condemned an official opinion issued today by Attorney General Robert McDonnell that said the Governor does not have the authority to include “sexual orientation” in an Executive Order protecting state employees from discrimination.
McDonnell argues in the opinion that, because the […]

Two Loudoun churches leave ECUSA

Loudoun Times-Mirror
February 14, 2006
By Eileen M. Carlton
Two Episcopal churches in eastern Loudoun have made history, being the first and second congregations in Virginia to leave the umbrella of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and join the Anglican Province of Uganda.
The pastors of South Riding Church and the Church of the Holy […]

Virginia Is for . . . :

Welcome to the Fred Phelps Training Academy
“Only a visceral animosity that is the antithesis of Christian agape could account for such an unrelenting assault.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
February 14, 2006
By A. Barton Hinkle
The Rev. Fred Phelps, leader of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, likes to show up at funerals with a placard reading, “God Hates Fags.” Certain […]

Stay tuned for GSA bill in Senate

In case there was any doubt about which generation is providing leadership: Due to continuing legislative efforts to deny GLBTQ and allied youth their constitutionally protected right to freedom of expression and association, a new statewide grassroots youth coalition has been founded. The Commonwealth Education Equality Virginia Initiative was founded in response to HB 1308, […]

Statewide group for gay youth forms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February, 9, 2006
Contact: Tully Satre
Founder/Executive Director
info@CEEVAinitiative.org
540.219.1654
Statewide group for gay youth forms
Responding to continued attacks against Virginia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youth, a new coalition has been formed to work to protect the rights of students to assemble and meet on school property. The “CEEVA (Commonwealth Education Equality Virginia) Initiative” is working […]

In Virginia, a Step Backward

Washington Post
February 5, 2006
Now that the Virginia legislature has passed the marriage amendment for a second time and the measure is almost certainly headed to the November ballot, Virginia voters should understand exactly what the amendment does.
Although proponents argue that it merely defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, the amendment goes […]