The conservative Arlington Sun Gazette has come out against the so-called Marriage Amendment (Ballot Issue #1), saying:
On principle, we should be in favor of the proposed state constitutional amendment banning so-called “gay marriage.
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Unfortunately, the proposed amendment Virginia voters will be casting ballots on this November is overreaching, ambiguous and clumsily written. This sloppiness has given the amendment’s opponents a great tool: A chance to reach out to moderates and conservatives with the argument that having no amendment is better than having this amendment.
We agree.
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This amendment should be rejected at the polls on Nov. 7.
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h/t RK
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
When did the Arlington Sun Gazette become conservative?
Are you saying they are not?
The Arlington Sun Gazette is normally supportive of the Democrats in Arlington. It will occasionally criticize them, but not often.
Then blame it on RK 🙂 They called it that. And their first paragraph seems to indicate that they were predisposed to be in favor of the amendment.
I bet the Arlington Sun Gazette falls into the moderate conservative category.
Alot of media is being called liberal when it’s really moderate and centrist material.
It’s just that the mainstream press is really extreme press; it’s skewed so far right that the center is now called “liberal.” That’s what happens when the left is cut out of the public discussion platforms.
I’m not surprised when moderates and centrists decide to vote no to an awfully written amendment that is unnecessary because the state laws already do the dirty deed of preventing lesbians and gays from having “recognized” families.
Buzz…Buzz…
The Sun Gazette papers generally endorse democrats and liberals. They aren’t as far left as the Post, but still left. BUT, I don’t think anyone has ever voted for anything or anyone based on newspaper endorsements, and certainly not the Sun Gazette. It’s a free paper that few people read.
Freddie, you’re more than misleading here. Work for the Sun Gazette, perhaps? And anyone who reads the Washington Post regularly will also know how much weight to assign Ms. Oldham’s opinion on the matter.
The Sun Gazette endorses Dems in Arlington because that’s all there is to vote for. If you want to be relevant (I’ll grant that this doesn’t always seem a Sun Gazette priority), you opine on the Democratic candidates. Mike Lane’s brief stay notwithstanding, the Arlington GOP is pretty much useless.
Is the Sun Gazette conservative? Given their recent appalling reasoning in their Allen endorsement, I hate to denigrate conservatives by saying yes, but I think it most certainly is. The Sun Gazette’s editorial page is so out of step with Arlington that it’s good for little more than laughs. They seem to do fine on the reporting side, for the most part. It’s a damn shame there isn’t a better local alternative, though.