What's in the Water in Northern Virginia?

While Northern Virginia is by most measures the most progressive and liberal part of the state, there seems to be an undue number of far right crazies elected to public office in that part of the state: Bob Marshall, an author of the anti-gay Marshall-Newman Amendment; Ken Kookinelli who was a senator from that area prior to inflicting himself on Virginia statewide as attorney general, and now Sterling, Virginia Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio whose goal seems to be to make Kookinelli look sane in relative terms, something that is no small task. Among his other activities, Delgaudio is President, Public Advocate of the U.S., an ultra-far right whack group which must be seeking a hate group designation from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Washington Post secured a copy of a fund raising letter authored apparently by Delgaudio that demonstrates that the man is bat shit crazy and likely a self-loathing closet case. I mean NO ONE is that obsessed with homosexuality unless they've got some severe personal issues going on. Here are some highlights from Delgaudio's completely untethered fund raising letter:
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Dear fellow American,
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The Radical Homosexuals claim you and other pro-family Americans actually now support same-sex marriage, special job preferences for homosexuals and promotion of the homosexual lifestyle in schools. Is it true? What do you say? But first I want to make sure you understand just how serious this issue is. You see, the Radical Homosexuals are storming through Washington demanding passage of their agenda. As the President of Public Advocate of the U.S., I've devoted twenty-seven years to battling the radical homosexuals in Washington.
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Backed by Hollywood celebrities, the media and millions of your tax dollars, the Radical Homosexuals have many Congressmen quivering with fear -- and they have a Radical Homosexual-friendly majority in control of Congress. That is why pro-family Senators and Congressmen are counting on me to find out if you really support the Gay Bill of Special Rights and homosexual marriage as the radical homosexuals claim.
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Special job rights for homosexuals and lesbians. Businesses may have to adopt hiring quotas to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every homosexual fired or not hired becomes a potential federal civil rights lawsuit.
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Radical homosexuals will terrorize day care centers, hospitals, churches and private schools. Traditional moral values will be shattered by federal law. Same-sex marriages and adoptions. Wedding-gown clad men smooching before some left-wing clergy or state official is just the beginning. You'll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to "pick out" a little boy for themselves.
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Please click here to complete the American Morality survey and prove to Congress that Americans oppose homosexual marriage and the Gay Bill of Special Rights today.
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Delgaudio is also spreading lies in his efforts to defeat the "Student Non-discrimination Act" introduced in Congress by Congressman Jared Polis. The Act merely seeks to stop bullying and is actually ought to be quite non-controversial. But not so in Delgaudio's bizarre world. Here are highlights from Alvin McEwen's post at Huffington Post that describes the sick propaganda being spewed by Delgaudio:
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Our children... They've been the Radical Homosexuals' target all along. Now they're finally going after what they've always wanted. Just a few weeks ago, radicals in Congress led by openly homosexual Representative Jared Polis introduced H.R. 4530. It is a bill to turn America's schools into indoctrination centers ... its classrooms into social laboratories ... its playgrounds into homosexual breeding grounds.
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Of course, they've disguised the bill's wicked nature behind the innocent name "The Student Non-Discrimination Act."
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More appropriately, this bill should be called "The Homosexual Classrooms Act." . .You see, the Homosexual Classrooms Act contains a laundry list of anti-family provisions that will:
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Require schools to teach sodomy and other appalling homosexual acts so homosexual students don't feel "singled out" during already explicit sex-ed classes;
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Spin impressionable students in a whirlwind of sexual confusion and misinformation, recruiting and even pressuring vulnerable teens and pre-teens into the homosexual "lifestyle";
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You get the drift. How someone as unhinged as Delgaudio got elected is troubling. Obviously, both he and those who elected him are drinking some pretty weird water or something. I can just imagine what mental health experts would find if they ran a comprehensive psychological profile on Delgaudio. As I said, he actually makes Ken Kookinelli look sane at first glance.