» (Already) Fighting…
"John McCain's presidential campaign filed a federal suit Monday against Virginia seeking to extend by 10 days the deadline for the state's acceptance of military members' federal absentee ballots. |
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A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state elections officials. Virginia's state police are looking into this mess, but they have no leads yet. Obviously they should start with people who want to see the Democrats fail in the election. |
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Click through to see video of some Republicans at a Virginia rally – a few of them Muslim – swarming and haranguing two jackasses who are defaming Obama by saying he's an Islamic Communist. Surprisingly, the guy with the sticker on his head is one of the rational folk. |
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Rather than relying on negative attacks and innuendo, the Republican presidential candidate attempted to set himself up as an underdog ready to fight for the White House. The media's coverage, he claims, has been far too dismissive. Said McCain to a crowd of Let me give you the state of the race today and some straight talk. We have 22 days to go. We're 6 points down. The national media has written us off. But they forgot to let you decide. McCain and Palin are definitely sweating Virginia, a state that hasn't gone to the Democrats since 1964. Obama, however, may change that: the Senator has a slim three-point lead, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Despite this anomaly, McCain insists he and his supporters have the Democrats "right where we want them." |
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Plus, Supporter Sacked For Anti-Gay, Racist Column
Trying desperately to turn around from last week's ugliness, McCain this weekend countered a woman who said she couldn't trust Barack Obama because he's an Arab. Hoping to disarm the woman's worry, McCain insisted his opponent's a decent family man and not an Arab, which represents a slight move forward for McCain, who last week stood by silently as his supporters called for Obama's head. McCain's resistance to anti-Obama rhetoric, however, may be undercut by his ignorance over his own camp's stance. |
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» Defection.
"Two small parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia have quit the denomination over gay ordination and joined a like-minded group of dissident churches based in Northern Virginia. The break-away Anglican District of Virginia announced Friday that Christ Church in Emporia and Grace Church in Purdy had become members. The district now includes 23 parishes that have cut ties with the Episcopal Church." [Hampton Roads] |
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Damn you, optimism! Damn you!!! |
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Backed by the anti-gay Family Research Council, organizers in Fairfax, Virginia sent reviews of "pray-away-the-gay" books to their local library, but the library coordinator Susan Thornley flat out refused to consider the divisive texts, saying, "Donations should not be at the expense of minority populations or make the reader feel inferior… These books were not research based. There were not facts to back it up." Gay foes failed to understand Thornley's argument, of course, and gathered yesterday to protest the library's allegedly anti-Christian stance. And, of course, they sent out about forty students to do their dirty work. |
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» Editing.
"The Virginia delegation canceled an order of a publication it planned to hand out to visitors at the upcoming Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, because it included a six-page section for gays and lesbians…" [POQ] |
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» Dismantling.
Hillary Clinton met with her campaign staff in Virginia today to inform them that they're last day will be Friday. They are, however, getting paid through June 15th. How generous! [ABC News] |
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Sure, former business man Jim Neal lost his bid for North Carolina's Senate, but Virginia-based political Lawrence Webb made a big mark: he's now the state's first black and gay elected official. Totally radical! |
» Horrible Hopeful
Proudly homophobic state Senator Ken Cuccinelli wants to be Virginia's next Attorney General. He also makes no apologies for his bigoted views: "I’m a traditional family guy and I don’t believe homosexuality is something that’s right at a fundamental level." If only he were being ironic… [Washington Blade] |
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Now Virginia A.G. Bob McDonnell has taken the dissenters' side: The attorney general urged Circuit Judge Randy I. Bellows to follow a state law dating back to the Civil War era in resolving the dispute. Rather than examining the actual property contracts, McDonnell hopes the court will simply look into whether the dissociation was done "properly". |
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Love Doesn't Necessitate Bodily Fluids?!
Virginia resident John Stec takes issue with The Roanoke Time's consistent support of gay rights and "equality". The engineer apparently doesn't believe gays should have, deserve or need any such things. Nor does he seem to understand the full extent of homosexual inclinations: A man or boy can love another man or boy without the exchange of bodily fluids. I love my father deeply. Affection is physically given and proven by an appropriate and occasional embrace and a kiss. I love some of my friends deeply. They know it. They know it by my conversation, my commitment to their well-being and by the things we enjoy together. And they know it without having to disrobe to perform sex. At least he's not entirely irrational. |
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