Bob Marshall Continues to Make Virginians Look Like Neanderthals

In today's economy when states and regions are competing as business relocation destinations and trying to nurture job generating start up businesses, one would think that thinking Virginians would not want the state on display as a region that continues to cling to a mindset like that of the Spanish Inquisition or red necks out of the old movie Deliverance. Not so in the case of Northern Virginia's Del. Bob Marshall who seeks out ever opportunity to tarnish Virginia's image. Of course he gets plenty of help in that endeavor from Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinella, the state's (in my view) mentally ill attorney general, and Governor Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell. The controversy over the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank to fly a rainbow flag during Pride month could have remained a small scale story. But not with Marshall's constant rants and batshitery. Now, to further publicize the worse elements of bigotry in Virginia, the New York Times has latched onto Marshall's latest display of anti-gay hatred. Here's a portion of the Times' story:
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RICHMOND, Va. — The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ran a rainbow flag up its flagpole last week and has been hearing about it ever since.
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The bank unfurled the flag on June 1, at the request of a group of gay and lesbian employees in honor of gay pride month.
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One day later, Bob Marshall, a Republican in the House of Delegates and an outspoken opponent on gay rights issues, was moved to write a letter to the bank’s president, saying that the flag was inappropriate for a quasi-governmental entity.
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Gay and lesbian “behavior,” he wrote, “undermines the American economy, shortens lives, adds significantly to illness, increases health costs, promotes venereal diseases,” among other things.
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In many ways, the controversy mirrors the changing demographics of this fast-growing state, whose traditions and habits are mixing with an influx of immigrants and young professionals in the northern part of the state.
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Jim Strader, a spokesman for the bank, said the bank had fielded hundreds of phone calls and as many e-mails about the flag. The flag, he said, symbolizes “values of being open and inclusive,” and shows that the bank is “a place that doesn’t discriminate.”
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One of the most popular arguments by the flag’s opponents was that the bank is a government institution and so should not be displaying a flag that promotes a cause. And now that they are, the argument goes, they have an obligation to other causes. . . . Mr. Strader’s response is that the bank is in fact privately owned, as are all regional Federal Reserves, and that it considers requests by employees — this was the first one — but not the general public.
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Mr. Marshall, 67, has been vocal on gay issues. He told The Washington Post last year that he was concerned gay troops would spread venereal disease. He was also a sponsor of Virginia’s ban on gay marriage. . . . Mr. Marshall has written an opinion article that he said is scheduled to run on Sunday in The Richmond Times-Dispatch. “I am sure this flag and or Fed story will not end here,” he said.
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One can only imagine what lies and untruths Marshall will put in his op-ed. Like most self-congratulatory "Christians," Marshall thinks himself exempt from the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness. I sure hope that when Marshall dies he discovers that God is a black lesbian. He'll have earned a special place in Hell for himself.