Still No Out Reach to LGBT Virginians by Taliban Bob McDonnell

As the November elections in Virginia get closer, Taliban Bob McDonnell continues to try to distance himself from his 1989 thesis setting forth a Christianist road map for governance which McDonnell has consistently followed while in elected office. Bob, actions speak louder than your recent disingenuous words. In the case of gay rights, while in the House of Delegates and then as Attorney General, Taliban Bob's actions towards gays make him the equivalent of Darth Vader for LGBT Virginians. Other than providing what I have heard described as half- assed responses to Equality Virginia's questionnaire, McDonnell has done NOTHING to convince LGBT Virginians that his views on gays have changed. Why? Because in my view his approach to gays has not changed whatsoever. He merely is lying to hide his true anti-gay gay agenda as dictated to him by Pat Robertson, the loons at Liberty University and The Family Foundation, the Virginia affiliate of the ever toxic Focus on the Family. Here's a brief highlight from a Wall Street Journal story where McDonnell again lies about his real views:

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Mr. McDonnell said he wrote the paper, titled "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade," as a 34-year-old completing a joint law and master's degree program at Regent University, the Virginia school founded by Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson. In it, Mr. McDonnell wrote that government should actively discriminate against "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators" in favor of married couples.

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Now 55, Mr. McDonnell has said the passages about women don't reflect his opinions. "Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older," he told reporters. He said he no longer believes government should discriminate against unmarried or gay people.

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Bob, I again challenge you to prove that your views have changed: come to the next HRBOR Third Thursday (see: www.hrbor.org), issue a statement in support of the National Equality March this weekend, or allow yourself to be interviewed and asked hard questions by LGBT bloggers. I'd be more than happy to afford you an interview. But both of us know that none of the foregoing will happen because your views sadly have not really change at all.