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Open letter to representatives, Aldie hate crime
The following is an open letter sent to Loudoun County elected representatives, published in local newspapers the first week of August, 2006. Most of you by now will have heard from the Sheriff’s Office about the horrific anti-gay hate crime … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy
Tagged Animus, Doing the right thing, General Assembly, Hate crimes, Letters, Loudoun BOS, The Cypress Project
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Silence == consent
Update: This is Sophrosyne’s description of this post at the Virginia Blog Carnival: “David over at Equality Loudoun has a post discussing the civility of the Virginia Marriage Amendment debate in relation to a purported lack of condemnation of a … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Commentary
Tagged Animus, Bob McDonnell, Hate crimes, Marshall-Newman Amendment, Moral confusion, The Cypress Project
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Sad news: A hate crime in Loudoun
I had hoped that I would not have to post an announcement like this. I had hoped that the campaign against our community in Virginia would not descend into the kind of ugliness we saw in Oregon 14 years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, News
Tagged Animus, Hate crimes, Legislation, Marshall-Newman Amendment, The Cypress Project
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Reality bites
A very entertaining discussion has ensued over at Bearing Drift, at which James Atticus Bowden has constructed a post in which he purports to Explain It All. This would be exhibit A in the category of people who would like … Continue reading
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Tagged Animus, Parenting, Reality-based world, Research
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Seek and Destroy
The ugly truth is being openly discussed. Seek and destroy. That is the true objective behind the Marshall-Newman amendment. To seek out and destroy whatever security gay families may have been able to cobble together using contracts “intended to approximate” … Continue reading
The blogs are alive with the sound of malice
Recent posts by two conservative bloggers going negative on the Marshall-Newman amendment have apparently had quite an impact on the anti-gay right. Some of them have forgotten the instruction they have received from on high to Not. Sound. Hateful. Apparently … Continue reading
Virginia vs. Vermont
A biting Washington Post editorial today gives us a watered down preview of the future envisioned by the backers of the Marshall/Newman amendment: A Virginia that elevates anti-gay animus to a constitutional principle, above federal law and above simple human … Continue reading →