News Item: : VA AG to colleges, End gay protections
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Posted by Wendy McElroy
Monday 08 March 2010 - 01:43:27
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt such statements. In his most aggressive initiative on conservative social issues since taking office in January, Cuccinelli (R) wrote in the letter sent Thursday that only the General Assembly can extend legal protections to gay state employees, students and others -- a move the legislature has repeatedly declined to take as recently as this week. [Ed.: tax funding always muddies issues. Private schools like individuals have a right to discriminate based on a right of free association but, once the private status has been surrendered, how can you ban classes of people who have paid taxes from receiving the benefits of that money?] (03/06/10)
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(Category: News Reports)
Posted by Wendy McElroy
Monday 08 March 2010 - 01:43:27
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt such statements. In his most aggressive initiative on conservative social issues since taking office in January, Cuccinelli (R) wrote in the letter sent Thursday that only the General Assembly can extend legal protections to gay state employees, students and others -- a move the legislature has repeatedly declined to take as recently as this week. [Ed.: tax funding always muddies issues. Private schools like individuals have a right to discriminate based on a right of free association but, once the private status has been surrendered, how can you ban classes of people who have paid taxes from receiving the benefits of that money?] (03/06/10)
This news item is from ifeminists.com
( http://www.ifeminists.com/news.php?extend.15633 )