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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,923 posts) Mon Nov 28, 2022, 01:11 PM Nov 2022

Republican delegate files resolution to repeal Virginia Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.

This looks like the so-called “clean repeal” some Republicans said they could support.

It just gets rid of the ban, without replacing it with new, largely symbolic marriage equality language.

PLOT TWIST: Republican Delegate Tim Anderson—the guy who unsuccessfully sued to get Gender Queer removed from book stores (https://usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/08/30/gender-queer-virginia-judge-tosses-suit-obscene-books/7943937001/)—files resolution to repeal the Virginia Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HJ460

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Uhhh, he wants to repeal the ban. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 #2

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Will Virginia make a bipartisan move to get rid of its antiquated same-sex marriage ban? mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2022 #4

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2. Uhhh, he wants to repeal the ban. NT

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4. Will Virginia make a bipartisan move to get rid of its antiquated same-sex marriage ban?

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Mon Dec 5, 2022, 08:23 AM

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Democrats who have worked on LGBTQ equality issues for years say they're filing the same thing Anderson did.

That means it could pass on a bipartisan basis, depending on how
@cToddGilbert
decides to handle it.

"The conservative principle here is less government, more freedom," GOP Del. Tim Anderson says of his proposal to get rid of Virginia's antiquated same-sex marriage ban.

virginiamercury.com
Will Virginia make a bipartisan move to get rid of its antiquated same-sex marriage ban? - Virginia...
Lawmakers from both parties say they plan to push for a "clean repeal" of state's 2006 constutional ban on same-sex marriage.

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