not my state but i still have to post this

he says his views have changed. they very well may have. i in no way shape or form believe they have more than the teeniest tiniest bit though. twenty years is not an eternity. if this man believed 20 years ago single women should not be ALLOWED to have contraception, women are 'detrimental' to the work force and 'the' gays are well who the hell even knows what he thought and currently thinks about 'the' gays........

so now he thinks it's ok for unmarried couples to be ALLOWED to have contraception? so now he thinks it's ok if the little woman has a job?

well he may say so but i ain't buying it

Governor's Race Erupts Over McDonnell's Past Views

By Amy Gardner, Rosalind S. Helderman and Anita Kumar

Washington Post Staff Writers
The Virginia governor's race ignited Monday over Republican Robert F. McDonnell's 20-year-old graduate thesis: Democrats assailed him in e-mail blasts and interviews for what he wrote about working women, homosexuals and "fornicators," and McDonnell tried to explain his views to crucial moderate and female voters.

After a sleepy summer filled with rural RV tours and policy papers on energy and the economy, news of the thesis, first reported Sunday in The Washington Post, pushed the race to a fever pitch.

McDonnell's opponent, Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, bombarded state and national media with details of the thesis, submitted by McDonnell in 1989 for a master of arts in public policy and juris doctorate in law from Regent University in Virginia Beach...

sort of a catch-22 here

if you were NOT doing it to begin with, why did you STOP doing it when you got caught? hmmmmmmmmmm



Va. women's prison segregated lesbians, others
By DENA POTTER, Associated Press Writer

TROY, Va. – For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say.

Dozens were moved in an attempt to split up relationships and curb illegal sexual activity at the 1,200-inmate Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, though some straight women were sent to the wing strictly because of their appearance, the inmates and corrections officers said.

Civil rights advocates called the moves unconstitutional punishment for "looking gay." The warden denied that any housing decisions were made based on looks or sexual orientation, and said doing so would be discriminatory. The practice was stopped recently after the Associated Press began questioning it, according to several inmates and one current employee.

Two current guards and one of their former co-workers said targeting masculine-looking inmates was a deliberate strategy by a building manager. Numerous inmates said in letters and interviews that they felt humiliated and stigmatized when guards took them to the separate wing — also referred to by prisoners and guards as the "little boys wing," "locker room wing" or "studs wing.".......

tell me how

not smiling is going to save america? what a bunch of stupid asswipes


As if It Needed to, Virginia Bans Smiles at the DMV

By Nick Miroff

Washington Post Staff Writer

Few places in Virginia are as draining to the soul and as numbing to the buttocks as the branch offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles. And yet, until recently, smiling was still permitted there.

No more. As part of the DMV's effort to develop super-secure driver's licenses and foolproof identification cards, the agency has issued a smile ban, directing customers to adopt a "neutral expression" in their portraits, thereby extinguishing whatever happiness comes with finally hearing one's number called.

The driver's license photo, it seems, is destined to look like a mug shot........

awakened at 2 am

rousted from their sleep. told they were breaking the law. told they had to leave the state (va) for 25 years OR they'd be tossed in the can. why?

she was black. he was white. that was the ONLY reason



they made history. thank you mildred jeter loving and richard loving

Quiet Va. Wife Ended Interracial Marriage Ban


By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer



Mildred Jeter Loving, 68, a black woman whose refusal to accept Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that struck down similar laws across the country, died of pneumonia Friday at her home in Milford, Va.
This Story
Appreciation: Mildred Loving Followed Her Heart and Made History
Obituaries: Quiet Va. Wife Ended Interracial Marriage Ban
The Loving v. Virginia decision overturned long-standing legal and social prohibitions against miscegenation in the United States. Celebrated at the time, the landmark case sunk to obscurity until a 1996 made-for-television movie and a 2004 book revived interest in how the young, small-town black and white couple changed history.
A modest homemaker, Loving never thought she had done anything extraordinary. "It wasn't my doing," Loving told the Associated Press in a rare interview a year ago. "It was God's work."
Today, according to the Census Bureau, there are 4.3 million interracial couples in the nation. .........





Mildred Loving and her husband, Richard, took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1967 struck down bans on interracial marriage. Photo Credit: 1965 Photo By Associated Press Photo