Life is a State of Mind

So in their first days in session for the new year, Virginia’s legislature decided to prioritize new bills to address Virginia’s biggest problems first, right? Wrong. Instead our elected law makers spent the a day debating the merits of amending our state constitution to ban gay marriage. Why? Gay marriage is already illegal. Do we really need to waste time making it a constitutional amendment?

Any amendment to the state constitution must be passed by the legislature, the senate, and the voters. That means there will be an expensive ballot question to track and vote on for an issue that is already closed. Like our law-makers don’t have any other pressing problems to solve.

A. Barton Hinkle wrote a nice piece in the Times Dispatch about Delegate Marshall’s disregard for fundamental rights and how strange it is that his fellow delegates don’t chastise him more often.
Thanks goes to Waldo for pointing out that some folks in the media are finally paying attention to Delegate Marshall’s lunacy. We need to write to our delegates and encourage them to make a stand and stop coddling this lunatic and clearly state if they stand with him or against him. None of his bills make any sense, we need to get the Republicans to clean their own house.