Insane Virginia Homophobe Seeks to Bar Gays from National Guard

When someone is so, so hysterically anti-gay, in my opinion a lot more than mere "deeply held religious belief" is involved. A case in point: Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall (pictured at left), a crony of AG Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinelli, who takes fear and loathing of LGBT individuals into the stratosphere. Every anti-gay legislative initiative in Virginia always finds Marshall's finger prints all over it and it's to the point that I believe Marshall - like Cuccinelli - could use some serious mental health expert intervention. Marshall is so over the top in his efforts to denigrate and harm gays' legal rights that I can only speculate that he's either a severely self-loathing closet case cut out of the cloth or Robert Knight and Peter LaBarbera or that he has some other type of severe emotional/psychological problems. He's simply too obsessed with gays. Now, in the wake of the Senate vote to repeal DADT over the weekend, Marshall has vowed to introduce a bill to bar gays from serving in the Virginia National Guard. The validity of the legislation would seem questionable since the guard involves units of federal troops, but I'm sure that won't deter Marshall. Here are highlights from the Washington Times:
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Responding to the federal repeal of the military policy banning open gays from serving in the armed forces, a state lawmaker in Virginia plans to fight back with legislation that bars "active homosexuals" from serving in the Virginia National Guard.
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Delegate Robert G. Marshall said the Constitution reserves states with the authority to do so and that he'll introduce a bill in the state General Assembly next year that ensures the "the effect of the 1994 federal law banning active homosexuals from America's military forces will apply to the Virginia National Guard."
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"With the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell,' President Obama seeks to pay back his homosexual political supporters," the Prince William County Republican said, echoing a sentiment shared by many of the repeal's most ardent opponents. "This policy will weaken military recruitment and retention, and will increase pressure for a military draft."
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Claire Gastanaga, legislative counsel for Equality Virginia, a gay-rights group, said the National Guard is a federal military unit subject to the same rules as other federal military units and that "any state statute seeking to set different standards for the Virginia National Guard would be a nullity with no effect."
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"It is a shame that Delegate Marshall would dishonor the brave men and women serving in our National Guard by seeking to make political points at their expense and waste the time of his colleagues in the Virginia General Assembly, who have pressing matters to attend to, like balancing the budget and finding solutions to the traffic problems that are the real and present concern of his constituents," she said.
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My advice to Mr. Marshall - either get some serious mental health care help or hire an male escort and get over your bizarre fixation on all things gay. Then again, maybe Marshall is playing an Ed Schrock - pushing an anti-gay persona via anti-gay legislation while in reality he's out trolling for gay sex hook ups. Whatever is the case, something is clearly wrong with the man.