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Va. couple files federal lawsuit challenging state’s ban on gay marriage
NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia couple on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Va. county supervisor, anti-gay hate group leader censured by colleagues
LEESBURG, Va. — Loudoun County, Va., Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling, Va.), leader of the anti-gay hate group Public Advocate of the United States, has been formally censured by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in the wake of a grand jury report that suggested he misused county funds and his staff.
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Poll: Va. voters support same-sex marriage, Gov. race tight
RICHMOND, Va. — Fifty percent of registered Virginia voters support same-sex marriage compared to 43 percent who don’t, with a clear majority of women approving it, a new poll has found.
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Va. AG launches ‘child predators’ website to build support for sodomy laws
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a website to build support for his fight to keep the state’s sodomy laws on the books, and to attack Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.
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Latest polls mixed on marriage equality, discrimination, religious freedom
The latest polls released this week affirm growing support for marriage equality in several states around the nation, as well as growing support for LGBT-inclusive workplace protections. But another poll suggests religious freedom should trump discrimination laws.
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Va. man sentenced to nine years in prison for AIDS-related fraud scheme
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia man who claimed he was developing a groundbreaking treatment for AIDS was sentenced to nine years in prison Wednesday for spending investors’ money on personal expenses rather than the research and human trials he promised.
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ACLU, Lambda Legal to file federal challenge to Va. gay marriage ban
RICHMOND, Va. — The ACLU of Virginia says it will file a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s gay marriage ban.
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Va. GOP Lt. Gov. nominee says recorded anti-gay remarks taken out of context
Virginia Republican lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that the media has taken all of his anti-gay comments out of context and that his derogatory remarks were only directed at the “rabid radical homosexual activist movement.”
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Va. AG wants U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate sodomy law
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Virginia’s anti-sodomy law, arguing that a lower court misinterpreted the scope of the justices’ 2003 decision invalidating a similar law in Texas.
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Hate group leader Eugene Delgaudio evades grand jury indictment
LEESBURG, Va. — Loudoun County, Va., Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio will not face criminal charges after a special grand jury probe into allegations that he misused his county office to raise political funds.