Category Archives: Marshall Newman Amendment

Without comment

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Looking to 2007

At the end of the day I will be taking down my Voting NO page. Before I do, I’d like to thank the 998,180 Virginians who voted NO. A special thanks goes out to the members of the General Assembly who stood with the Commonwealth Coalition and supported our efforts. In 2007, the entire General [...]

Reason #1: Vote NO if…

… you believe the amendment writes discrimination into the Virginia constitution.
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VP LTE: Legal lesson for voters

There was a local case where a pregnant woman killed her unborn child by intentionally shooting herself in the stomach. The woman was charged with illegally inducing an abortion; however, those charges were dismissed since the law applied to third parties, such as doctors. In today’s Pilot, there is a letter to the editor that [...]

Reason #2: Vote NO if…

… you believe that the Bill of Rights should be used only to grant rights, not take them away.
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Another NO vote

Add Jay Hughes to the list.
Our Commonwealth has some of the lowest crime rates and lowest unemployment rates in the nation. Businesses flock to the Commonwealth because our schools and universities produce a robustly educated workforce. All of this is possible because Virginia families are already instilling decent morals and ethics in our children without [...]

Voting NO: a couple more

NoVA Scout, over at Too Conservative, offers up his view on Voting NO on Ballot Issue #1, the so-called Marriage Amendment.
Conservatives do not take kindly to legislative use of constitutional documents. We are skeptical of public fads and passions that try to seize a moment to trivialize the great structures of republican constitutional [...]

Bob Marshall: Virginia’s “chief homophobe”

The so-called Marriage Amendment, Ballot Issue #, actually bears his name. But just who is Bob Marshall? In this article, we get a glimpse of the man “who refers to himself as Virginia’s ‘chief homophobe.’”
“There is a natural order of things, a natural order where gay marriage is an impossibility,” he said, books tucked under [...]