The Washington Post, a bit late on the draw (as were gay organizations) on Sunday ran a strongly worded editorial against the recently enacted Virginia law banning not only recognition of gay marriages and civil unions, but any private contracts that seek to bestow marriage-like rights between same-sex couples. The full extent of this extremist lunacy is just now becoming evident to many. But how did this thing pass with no attention from either the media or activists? (As noted in an earlier posting, Virginia's main gay rights group was hesitant to push the state Democratic Party to oppose the measure, for reasons still largely unexplained.)
The silver lining, as the Post editorial notes: the law is so
bad, it may eventually prove an embarrassment even to its backers
in Richmond, capital of the Confederacy and still in rebellion
against modernity.