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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJanuary 15th, 2013
Poor Belshazzar could be forgiven for not reading the handwriting on the wall considering how fast it’s been scribbling. I swear I wouldn’t be surprised if the Republican Party sent out a press release saying, “Hey, about that marriage thing, you knew we were kidding, right? I mean c’mon it was just a joke. Ha ha. Dude, I mean seriously, of course we support you.”
Well, okay maybe that would surprise me. But not much more than what’s happening in Virginia.
It seems that a Mr. Tracy Thorne-Begland was nominated as a General District Court judge. True, it’s more like People’s Court than Supreme Court, but last year the legislature just wasn’t having it.
Not cuz he’s gay, hrmph mutter mumble, but because he’s one of those ‘openly aggressively gay’ gays and had gone on TV as a Navy pilot opposing DADT. And that was violating military policy and breaking the law and so such.
Ah, but that was last year. And since then it seems they’ve seen the hand writing on the wall. And it was writing “mene mene of you are going to lose elections if you don’t drop the anti-gay crap”. So this year they have a whole new tune.
In the interim Thorne-Begland got a temporary appointment and, by golly it turns out that all his confirmation problems turned out to be a huge comical misunderstanding. (WaPo)
Republican leaders, who are hoping to de-emphasize some of the social issues that dominated the previous session, said they were changing course in this case because they had received more information. Morris said he initially believed that Thorne-Begland had violated Navy regulations by coming out on national television but later concluded that he had not because he was not in uniform on TV.
Well golly gee, I’m awfully glad that was all cleared up. For a moment there I thought it might have something to do with obvious political trends or the fact that Corporate America had a lil’ chat about what is good for business.
And so today a joint House and Senate panel voted unanimously to advance his approval to the floor.
“I share with you a high degree of comfort you will be certified and elected on the Senate side,” Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City) told Thorne-Begland on Monday.
Ya think so, Mr. Majority Leader? Well, I tekel u-pharsin word for that.
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Hank
January 15th, 2013
That’s progress for sure. But it was just yesterday that HJ665, a resolution that would have repealed the 2006 marriage ban, was tabled and therefore killed in committee. Therefore, this backward state that I live in still has a long way to go.
Reed Boyer
January 15th, 2013
Hmmmm . . . and his confirmation passed – after 12 (out of 20) Republicans walked out rather than vote.
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