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After canvassing votes in precincts in Richmond and elsewhere, Democrat candidate Attorney General Candidate, Mark Herring, has retaken the lead from Ken Cuccinelli clone and far right extremist Mark Obenshain. Now, the Virginia State Board of Elections website has been updated, and Democrat Mark Herring now leads by 117 votes over Republican Mark Obenshain. :)
The closeness of the vote underscores the reality that EVERY vote does make a difference. To me, it is important that the entire hand picked slate of the extremists and hate merchants at The Family Foundation go down in defeat. Here's a sampling of the batshitery coming out of The Family Foundation now that their attempt to take over Virginia's top statewide government positions has failed (Note: gays, as always, are a favorite target of scorn for these foul modern day Pharisees):
Regardless of the reasons for Tuesday’s results, we have a new political climate in Richmond that in many ways will be far more hostile to our faith and principles than anything we’ve seen before. Make no mistake: the abortion industry that spent well over $1 million to elect Terry McAuliffe and the homosexual rights lobby that spent thousands expect payback – and they expect it quickly. While there will be claims that “social issues” will take a back seat, do not be deceived. The first actions of the Governor-elect will not have anything to do with jobs or the economy, but they will have everything to do with social issues – beginning with executive orders that grant special status to people based on their sexual behavior. The appointments he will make to his administration will not be to help your job situation; they will be to reward those who helped get him into office.
The new political climate will mean that the Founding Fathers' goal of a secular government and a clear separation of church and state. Ms. Cobb and her fellow hate merchants might do well to look in the mirror as they read the following - Thomas Jefferson's preamble to Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom (emphasis mine):
Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as it was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
The agenda of The Family Foundation is the antithesis of what Jefferson and his fellow Founders sought to uphold. With the defeat of Ken Cuccinelli, "Bishop" Jackson, and seemingly Mark Obenshain, perhaps Jefferson's ideals can begin to again be realized in Virginia.
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