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Cuccinelli Orders Va. Colleges to Strip Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Anti-Discrimination Policies

Last November, 58% of Virginians voted to elect Ken Cuccinelli as our next Attorney General. In doing so, 58% of Virginians voted to discriminate against LGBT students and faculty at our state’s colleges and universities:

“It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender expression,’ or like classification as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy absent specific authorization from the General Assembly,” he wrote in the letter.

Colleges that have included such language in policies that govern university hiring and admissions — which include all of Virginia’s largest schools — have done so “without proper authority” and should “take appropriate actions to bring their policies in conformance with the law and public policy of Virginia,” Cuccinelli wrote.

So I guess when UVa and William and Mary and the like prepare their recruitment materials for next year, they’ll have to put a big ole’ asterisk next to diversity to remind prospective students that only straight students are welcome in Virginia.

At least when Gov. Bob McDonnell rescinded anti-discrimination protections for LGBT state employees, maybe some people could have claimed to have been surprised since McDonnell likes to run for office as a moderate. But The Cooch has never been anything but a far-right, anti-government, gay-bashing, woman-hating whackjob, or, as the Virginian-Pilot put it in their endorsement of his opponent Steve Shannon:

To put it politely, Cuccinelli’s election would bring embarrassment to Virginia, instability to the state’s law firm and untold harm to the long list of people who don’t fit his personal definition of morality.

Well, we went ahead an elected him anyway. And now, Virginia is getting just what we voted for.

3/5/10 9:24 pm | Comment (4) | Permalink | Tags: Ken Cuccinelli, LGBT rights