On the same day that we receive news the the District is elevating the level of importance they give to protecting and promoting gay, bisexual, and trangender rights, we find Virginia continuing its long march in the opposite direction.

As we noted last week, Virginia’s voters will have a chance this November to amend their state constitution so as to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, thus putting the final nail in the coffin for the prospects of gay marriage in our southern neighbor.

And now WJLA informs us that the House of Delegates is considering a measure that would allow local school boards to disband student groups that promote sexual promiscuity, a sly way of doing away with gay-straight alliance organizations, according to gay rights activists. While the measure’s sponsor, Del. Matthew Lohr (Harrisonburg) claims he is not going after gay student organizations, when questioned by an opponent of the proposal, Lohr could only cite one example of a student group allegedly promoting promiscuity — a gay-straight alliance in Chesterfield County.

If gay rights activists have anything to be happy about, though, it’s that Virginia isn’t dead last in its treatment of gay, bisexual, and transgender issues — it ranks ahead of Alabama and Oklahoma.

But Virginia isn’t a state to not be best at something, now is it?