Virginia AG Cuccinelli: Colleges Directed to Rescind Policies Protecting Gay State Employees

The speed with which Virginia is regressing backwards under the Christianist triumvirate of McDonnell, Cuccinelli and Bolling is down right frightening. In a move that will overnight make Virginia's top public universities and colleges - think the University of Virginia and William & Mary among others - uncompetitive in recruiting faculty and staff, Virginia's lunatic theocrat Attorney General has now directed colleges and universities rescind their policies protecting employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation. One can only assume that Cuccinelli's next move will be to try to reimpose sodomy laws and bans on interracial marriage. I hope to Hell the rest of the country is watching how false moderate Republicans govern. Some of us warned what was going to happen under these madmen but idiot voters fell for their lies. I hope the colleges and universities refuse to comply. I also hope that Northrup Grumman is watching closely. Here are highlights from the Washington Post:

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RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has asked the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school Thursday that their boards of visitors have no legal authority to adopt such statements.

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"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.

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Colleges that have included such language in their policies -- which include all of Virginia's leading 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.

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The opinion is likely to spark outrage with many students and faculty at Virginia schools. "What he's saying is reprehensible," said Vincent F. Callahan Jr., a former Republican member of the House of Delegates who serves on the Board of Visitors of George Mason University. "I don't know what he's doing, opening up this can of worms."

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Cuccinelli is a menace and needs to be removed from office as quickly as possible on whatever basis or means is required. Over the next four years, he will clearly try to turn Virginia into a theocracy based on his own fanatical religious views.