IGF contributing author David Boaz, who wrote the book on libertarianism, provides an astute and provocative look at how anti-libertarian the government of Virginia was, is and likely will remain, in a new article posted at Reason Online.
As evidence of the state's century-long heritage of interfering
with love and marriage, Boaz cites - among other examples -
Virginia's former law barring mixed-race couples from marrying
(only struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967) and its
current fixation on nixing even private contractual relationships
that might smack of gay unions. All of which adds up to, in Boaz's
words, "an arrogant desire by the state to control private
relationships." Old habits, apparently, die hard in the Old
Dominion.