Va. House OKs measure to defend gay marriage ban

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/02/va-house-oks-measure-defend-gay-marriage-ban



Va. House OKs measure to defend gay marriage ban
By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© February 4, 2014

A day before a muscular legal assault on Virginia's gay marriage ban unfolds in a Norfolk courtroom, Republican lawmakers in Richmond were scrambling to find a way to defend the embattled law.

On a largely party-line 65-32 vote, the Republican-controlled House of Delegates passed legislation Monday that would give the House, the state Senate or any individual member of the General Assembly permission to defend a state law in court if the governor and attorney general choose not to do so.

The measure is aimed squarely at preserving Virginia's 2006 constitutional amendment that declared only a union between a man and a woman can be a valid marriage.

A Norfolk couple, Tim Bostic and Tony London, filed a lawsuit in federal court last summer seeking to overturn the Virginia law on the grounds that it violates the U.S. Constitution. Two more plaintiffs, a lesbian couple from Chesterfield County, have since joined the case.

[lostincalifornia]

1. So Priebus demands an apology from MSNBC because someone tweeted an implication that republicans

are racist? When will Priebus apologize for republicans that are racist, sexist, and homophobic?

[NCLefty]

2. Spending taxpayer money on gay marriage is no problem for these "conservatives."