Some 30 LGBT protesters descended on Chick-fil-A’s D.C. food truck yesterday to inform fans of the chain’s fried chicken and waffle fries that their money was going to support groups that are opposed to same-sex marriage.
Jim Webb and George Allen might be stuck in a tight battle for the Virginia Senate seat, but no such contest existed for a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage or civil unions. As the Post is reporting, the amendment — one of eight across the country — was approved by an overwhelming 57 percent of Virginia voters, somewhat proving the power of the commonwealth’s social conservative tendencies. And even though Northern Virginia has tended towards…
Signaling an additional layer of complication to the already complicated and fractured immigration debate, the Washington Times is reporting today that some African Americans are joining together with the Minuteman vigilante groups that have been hounding illegal immigrants along the border and in day laborer centers, most locally in Herndon, Virginia. Though seeming like an alliance of strange bedfellows, African Americans in the region and across the nation tend to see immigrants as a threat…
In response to allegations that existing state law banning gay marriage hasn’t gone far enough in protecting traditional marriages from corrosive homosexual influences, Virginia is now considering further defining marriage as only being between a man and a woman, reports WJLA. We thought that Virginia had made their opposition to gay marriage clear enough last year with their endorsement of “Traditional Marriage” license plates, but it’s always good to err on the side of excess….
Good morning, Washington. The weather today is supposed to be frigidly chilly this morning with temperatures later rising into the 40s, according to Capital Weather. Drew McDermott’s recent photo of the Virginia Square metrorail station entrance seems timely considering this morning’s first item … A Transit Surplus and a Rate Hike?: Thanks to a 4 percent increase in subway ridership and a 10 percent increase in bus ridership, WMATA officials have gleefully announced they…
Waldo Jaquith, a Virginia Tech student and president of the Virginia Family Values Political Action Committee (they support sexual privacy and contraception) was sick of his legislators passing Puritanical laws restricting and regulating sexual behavior and lobbying for things like “Traditional Marriage” license plates which, he reasoned, was basically a not-so-subtle dig against gays: “Every time they get married, they use up a little bit of our collective ability to get married. When they go…