Cuccinelli's Gay Rights Stance Angers Virginia Students

Just because Ken Cuccinelli released his letter stating that colleges cannot protect gay employees from discrimination the day spring break began on many Virginia campuses doesn't mean it's getting past students unnoticed.

The Washington Post reports:

More than 3,000 people have joined one Facebook page titled, "WE DON'T WANT DISCRIMINATION IN OUR STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES!" Nearly 900 people have joined another page started by activists at the College of William and Mary.

The University of Virginia group Queer & Allied Activism has launched a social media campaign, urging students to protest on Cuccinelli's Facebook and Twitter pages, and to sign a petition organized by the group Equality Virginia.

According to The College of William and Mary's student newspaper, The Flat Hat, the school recently reapproved its anti-discrimination policy protecting transgendered, gender-neutral and transsexual employees and students. William and Mary spokesman Brian Whitson told the Flat Hat that "With or without the clarification, William and Mary does not discriminate or harass anyone because of their sex, gender identity or sexual orientation."

Comments

[moderatevadad]

09:09 PM on 03/22/2010

Ken Cukoonelli is nothing more than a right wing ,christian, hate monger. Why is this bigot protecting the groups that asked him to review this policy? He duped the people of VA during the recent campaign. This is only the beginning of this guy trying to impose his views on everyone in the state.........be afraid...be very afraid!!!

[Clevelandinwi]

12:02 PM on 03/22/2010

People of this country:

VOTE

(or you end up with these regressive racists.)

[Australian2]

05:39 AM on 03/14/2010

To: Virginian voters.
Re: Voting patterns and responsibility.

Dear voters of Virginia,

This is what you get for allowing Republicans to take office. A bunch of holier-than-thou, hypocritical Godbotherers, who get in one one set of promises and then begin fulfilling others.

Don't run around crying. You did it to yourselves.

Regards,

An Australian.

[kannita]

07:33 AM on 03/15/2010

Wrong! I voted, so did my college age daughter. But there are some of these same college age kids that failed to think it was important enough. I think its a good lesson for them. Maybe next time, they will vote.

[botan]

05:50 PM on 03/11/2010

Isn't it just ironic that Republicans who have been caught time and again having affairs both straight and gay worry over the sexual lives of others?

[botan]

05:47 PM on 03/11/2010

So, is this is the Republican plan? Run on the economy and healthcare, and then start discrimination against gays when they get in office? What this tells me is they have no plan except to engage in distraction by lynching gays and other minorities while the country burns. Brilliant, just brilliant.

[darkmark]

10:43 AM on 03/11/2010

sounds like the conservative republicans that can't keep up with social changes are going to just fade away or die away. hope it becomes clear before i do.

[KarateKid]

08:43 AM on 03/11/2010

To Virginians: This is what you get for electing cretins.

[Vetinari]

08:28 AM on 03/11/2010

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Translation: "We refuse to let anyone who disagrees with us on VA campuses." Typical ideological leftists: the biggest bigots out there, willing to tolerate a diversity of everything except opinion.

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yeah, a republican would never try to stop people with other opinions than himself, right?

[Vetinari]

08:13 AM on 03/11/2010

sounds good gop.

you think you will win elections on this platform?

[Malou0501]

10:06 PM on 03/10/2010

Massa is destroying don't ask don't tell. This give republicans an opening.

[Tizzylizzy99]

08:59 PM on 03/09/2010

Stop the censorship on HP

Words I am not allow to use on some HP boards .. anti-semitism, Samir Kunter, Palestinians blowing up discos and ...censorship...

[darleneslee]

10:35 PM on 03/10/2010

This is the main reason they are losing bloggers by the hundreds. All of my old friends have moved on to sites where they can express themselves without being offensive.

[ftrobaugh]

08:45 PM on 03/09/2010

Note, most anti-discrimination provisions prevent descrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/gender identity -- they do not specifically protect gays. LGBT, etc. Repealling such anti-discrimination provisions could adversely affect straights if anyone had the chutzpah to make the following statement.
IF an anti-discrimination provision is repealed, there is nothing to prevent a boss, gay or straight, from firing a straight work for JUST BEING HETEROSEXUAL. I would LOVE to see it happen. THAT would get the Righties undies in a bunch.

[butterfly218]

12:16 AM on 03/11/2010

Who in America would run for office on taking away any rights from an American . In America dogs , cats , chickens and cows have rights and they don"t even have a birth certicicate nor do they pay taxes . How sad when our politicians want to regulate the American bedroom and not law breaking banks .

[Vetinari]

08:23 AM on 03/11/2010

republicans have always been obsessed with other people's bedrooms.

insecurities and jealousy...

[guytaur1]

08:22 PM on 03/09/2010

This guy should not be the First Law Officer of the Land. Of Course the Colleges are keeping their policies. They have to. Otherwise they would be in breach of hard fought civill rights law. LIke the 14th Amendment for example. The AG cannot force discrimination. Federal Laws prevent this. Laws backed by numerous Supreme Court decisions in this area. The very same ones that make sure there is only one drinking fountain and not a white and black one.

[LegalCodex]

04:04 PM on 03/11/2010

"LIke the 14th Amendment for example."

The constitution, unfortunately, has not been found to apply to discrimination against homosexual or transgendered people.

[Leigh49]

08:09 PM on 03/09/2010

Who elected this clown to take away American's freedom?

[jussaying]

09:04 PM on 03/09/2010

that would be the good ole boys in Virginia; he came along as part of a package deal with the governor a right-winger who put on a moderate suit for the election season. The same guy who not so long ago attended Pat Robertson's School for Freedom for White Males and wrote a glowing dissertation about keeping women barefoot and pregnant. Save the Commonwealth of Virginia who now is in the hands of these people

[blackonics]

03:07 AM on 03/10/2010

better them, than, the the homosexuals!

[BigCheese]

08:01 PM on 03/09/2010

Wow, they joined a facebook page!

[Vetinari]

08:25 AM on 03/11/2010

kids today... thinking that facebook really gets stuff done in real life...