As if registrars around the state don’t have enough to do with the voter registration deadline approaching, a letter from the Family Foundation is creating more work for them:
Voter registration offices around Virginia were inundated with complaints from residents who received letters last week saying they may not be signed up to vote.
The Family Foundation is a strong proponent of the so-called Marriage Amendment (ballot issue #1). In addition to sponsoring a “survey” of 2.1 million households, they sent letters out, containing the following:
“Each voter will be asked if he or she would like to define marriage as a union only between one man and one woman in the Commonwealth,” the letter states. “By amending our constitution this way, Virginians can be sure that our state law banning same-sex marriage is not overturned by an activist judge, leaving/forcing our Commonwealth to uphold/recognize Vermont values.”
Remember the charges that the amendment opponents were spreading fear and lies? It is the Family Foundation that is spreading fear and lies. Look at the letter. Look around the net for the number of people who have been push-polled in that survey. The Family Foundation is not about family at all. Instead, they are attempting to appeal to homophobia in pushing their agenda.
Gay marriage is already illegal and this amendment’s passage or failure will not change that, so enough already with the homophobia BS. What will change is that unmarried couples – any unmarried couples – will be denied basic rights. What will change is that the very activist judges they are trying to avoid will be forced to decide what constitutes “the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage.”
Read the whole thing, Virginia. And then Vote NO on ballot #1.
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Why is this a penalty? Shouldn’t the Democrats be identifying issues and voters that will help Webb win, too?
Maybe you were born yesterday, 06bust, but where I come from I learned that America is a participatory democracy… And in participatory democracies the idea is to get eligible voters to — PARTICIPATE. Where I come from, they call what the Family Foundation did, spurring doubt that legitimately qualified voters could vote — VOTER SUPPRESSION. And in a participatory democracy, VOTER SUPPRESSION is an automatic penalty flag
“participatory democracy”
Dude, it’s a “moneyacracy”.
who was born yesterday ?
I don’t understand the suppression part?
I realize the hypocracy of a “family values” organization bashing those they deem unworthy of ANYONES family, but I fail to see how this suppresses anything.
My reasons for it being a penalty is that they sent out an inflammatory letter to voters, causing them to panic about their registration status at the time when the registrars’ offices are already busy.
Are your readers aware that the precincts in VAB have been changed?
No – that is pretty important. I’ll try to get something up on that.