Va. House of Delegates Kills Worker Protections

Oh this is a big surprise. I mean, according to the Advocate as of late, the Republicans are our friends and the Democrats are the ones working against our interest. I mean the fact that Republicans are not only hostile to us verbally but also writing legislation to take our rights away is exactly why we should consider voting for them over Democrats, because Democrats don't appreciate us enough. And that black guy in office that actually has done more for our community in one year than any president before him, ever...well you can't trust him. Go for the white guys like McDonnell. You can trust them, wink wink.

Of course, killed by the Republicans once again!

Still a Southern state with a Southern mentality. Virginia is for bigots.

What ever happened to ENDA, which the Democrats promised during the campaign on the national level, and HRC promised during the second year of Obama's presidency? Certainly it will never pass next year when the Republicans control the Congress. NOW is the time!

It is a huge and total waste of money, time, energy and effort for ANY state to have two housed in its legislature. Just think how much we could all save if state houses were one house bodies. I say have one rep from each county, with no respect to population. K.I.S.S. ...KeepItSimpleStupid

No discrimination currently taking place in Virginia?

HAHAHAHA Surely you jest it will NEVER happen not here and not with homophobic Taliban Bob McDonnell as our Gov given that in 2006 when McDonnell, then attorney general, advised Gov Kaine that he had overstepped his constitutional authority when he outlawed bias against gays in state hiring McDonnell then suited the state and lost. Now as Gov he has already stated he will NOT sign the same rider Gov Kaine did to protect gays state employees. NO Gay legislation is ever going to make it out of the Va house of Representatives and It will never make it to the voters and if it ever does Pat Robertson and his Ilk will start yelling fire and brimstone form the mountain tops and scare every voters out their into voting the same way they have in the pass and we'll get the the result we already have in a BAND on same sex marriage. I've live here long enough to known Equality in Virginia is a lost cause...Virginia's not for lovers its for bigots.

I completely agree John! If they had 5 minutes of the discrimination we have faced for years they would crumble-----and that is their weak spot that we must expoit. In addition, we need to start calling every Chamber of Commerce in these states that either fail to pass a pro-gay law or do pass and anti-gay one and issue a boycott of the state until the issue is resolved. Anti-gay will become expensive!!! They may not listen to civil rights. But I promise you, when the issue hits THEM in THEIR wallets, they'll get it. AND I agree, fire heterosexuals because the state house said its OK!

So, gay employers of Virginia: seriously consider giving pink slips to all of your straight employees. Married or have kids? Sorry--your kind's not wanted here. Ask sexual orientation when interviewing, and end the interview if they say they're straight. It's a win-win: you hand an employment advantage to the gay community during a bad economy, and you send a clear message to the Virginia lawmakers: your rules, assholes. You're the ones who decided sexual orientation discrimination was acceptable. And even if you're not an employer, openly discriminate in hiring vendors, service providers, etc. Or in renting property, if there is no housing protection either. Once the heteros are the ones feeling the discrimination--and once they learn it's perfectly legal and they can't do anything about it--just watch how fast an antidiscrimination law gets passed.

Nice. The Commonwealth is still living in The Dark Ages, I see...