{"id":4966,"date":"2012-05-17T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2012-05-17T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:03:57","slug":"virginia-fails-at-basic-human-decency-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2012\/05\/17\/virginia-fails-at-basic-human-decency-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Fails at Basic Human Decency.  Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve certainly heard by now, <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/02\/23\/and-a-liar-too\/\">Bigot Extraordinare<\/a> Rep. Bob Marshall and the clown show that is the Virginia GOP continued Virginia&#8217;s grand tradition of hatefulness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/bigotry-blocks-a-gay-virginian-from-the-bench\/2012\/05\/15\/gIQA0XRISU_story.html?hpid=z2\">when<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he judicial nomination of Mr. Thorne-Begland, a former Navy fighter pilot who is gay, was sabotaged by an ugly campaign of homophobic bigotry led by Virginia Republicans. In a vote at 1 a.m. Tuesday, the GOP-dominated House of Delegates, with an avowed homophobe leading the charge, killed his candidacy, thereby ensuring that Virginia state courts remain free of openly gay judges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The usual attempts to\u00c2\u00a0obfuscate and cast doubt upon the reasons behind the vote have quickly made their appearances, of course. \u00c2\u00a0While Virginia&#8217;s got a well established tradition of narrow-mindedness and willingness to use the power of the state to discriminate, one thing it simply<em> cannot stand<\/em> is actually labeling these actions for what they are.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Waldo Jaquith does a great job of sorting out the vote <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/thorne-begland-tally\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve certainly heard by now, Bigot Extraordinare Rep. Bob Marshall and the clown show that is the Virginia GOP continued Virginia&#8217;s grand tradition of hatefulness when: [T]he judicial nomination of Mr. Thorne-Begland, a former Navy fighter pilot who is gay, was sabotaged by an ugly campaign of homophobic bigotry led by Virginia Republicans. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-society","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}