In a perverse and cynical way, Del. Bob Marshall, who seems utterly obsessed with gays and making their lives miserable, has unwittingly perhaps become the best argument for LGBT equality in Virginia. The man has become such a crackpot and complete nutcase that even the leadership of the Republican Party of Virginia cringes at his antics and seem to wish he would simply disappear. A case in point is Marshall's attempt to start impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Mark Herring due to Herrings refusal to defend Virginia's unconstitutional Marshall-Newman Amendment which was jointly authored by, you guessed it, Del. Bob Marshall, gay hater extraordinaire. GayRVA looks at the quashing of Marshall's latest lunatic venture. Here are excerpts:
Marshall had hinted at impeaching Herring since the AG first announced he would not defend the state’s same-sex marriage ban in court earlier this year. The effort last week came after Marshall attended the Fourth Circuit hearing against the state’s ban. That’s when he realized Herring was going to “carry through with it.”
“[Herring] wants to change the tax-deductibility laws as well, and in addition, he decides he can identify and authorize who gets instate tuition,” Marshall said explaining the numerous instances Herring had violated the law to his understanding.
House Speaker Bill Howell (R) immediately denied Marshall’s resolution when it was first submitted and released a short statements saying he “does not believe impeachment is an appropriate or practical recourse at the moment.”
Marshall then blamed his own party’s higher-ups for not challenging the AG’s actions. “The failure of the republican leadership to address his first violation of the constitution has led to more [violations].”
Marshall is one of the authors of VA’s 2006 ban on same-sex marriage, the Marshall Newman Amendment, and has since staunchly opposed any attempts to expand LGBTQ-equality related bills in the General Assembly.
He started a petition to help build support for his impeachment inquiry, however the site was taken down after opponents inundated it with what Marshall called “vile cuss words” and “suggestions that where gross and demeaning.”
“The first amendment rights of people to petition their leaders over a grievance has been abridged by people who support so-called same-sex marriage,” said Marshall.
Marshall’s plea for public support included referring to same-sex marriage as “same sex sodomy marriage” and suggesting lawyer Ted Olson, one of the lawyers for the challenge against the VA’s same-sex marriage ban, is in a race to be the first lawyer responsible for removing “all standards against same sex or sodomy “marriage” in America, to the detriment of children and the well-being of society.”
AG Herring’s office was unabashed in their criticism of Marshall’s impeachment attempted, saying “A small handful of legislators seem to remain oblivious as to how the law works.”
Bob Marshall belongs in a mental ward as doe the majority of voters in his district who keep reelecting this hated filled buffoon. I suspect that 60 years ago Marshall would have been wearing white robes and protesting Brown v. Board of Education and, no doubt he was not pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia. Marshall is simply put a horrid individual and serves as ehibit A as to what is wrong with the Virginia GOP..
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