Cuccinelli Right, Protestors Wrong… McDonnell Splits Difference

Good God!

Talk about drama over literally NOTHING. Ken Cuccinelli puts a kindly written letter out to the publicly funded colleges, bringing to their attention that they have inadvertently broken state law by inserting a clause that was never passed by the Virginia Legislature. In response, the college(s) leak the letter to the press, who quickly drum up a fabricated uproar over something that has been in place for YEARS?!

Give me a break. VCU sends a thousand people into the streets because the Attorney General did his job!? Where was the protest and frustration when the legislature, you know, the people who MAKE the law, rejected the term ‘sexual orientation’ over and over and over again for decades?! Yet Attorney General Cuccinelli, who rightfully points out that state colleges have circumvented the law, is the bad guy?

It doesn’t help when articles like this (from RTD about the protest today in Richmond) refer to the issue as Cuccinelli’s ‘opinion.’ Wake up people. It’s not an opinion, it’s not an interpretation; it’s the LAW. And as Attorney General, it’s his job to defend the LAW. The state colleges are in clear violation of it, he pointed it out rightfully, because it’s his, you know, job!

So the backlash swells, Cuccinelli doesn’t back down (not really sure how you can back down from the law? Going oh yeah, nevermind?) So McDonnell swoops in today, as Jason throughly reported here and issues a Governor’s directive clarifying that discrimination will not be tolerated. This placates the alleged controversy, and doesn’t cut out Cuccinelli’s knees from under him. Why?

Because a Governor’s Directive is not law. It’s not an Executive Order, as Tim Kaine famously and unconstitutionally did in regards to this specific issue. So McDonnell placates the left and shuts them up (and you can tell by the headlines and press releases today, it worked). However, the same issue remains. State colleges are in violation of state law. For a state that has altered its constitution to recognize that marriage is between a man and a woman, this is not likely to go away.

I’d salute Ken Cuccinelli, but it is his job. However, way to stay strong in the face of a fabricated firestorm of nonsense and not losing sight of how blatantly wrong the opposition is on this issue.

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