Papers, please! Cuccinelli's Immigration Opinion Creates a Führer

The trampling of your civil rights continues unabated in the Commonwealth of Virginia as Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issues a legal opinion saying that it is reasonable for police to inquire about your immigration status and arrest you if you cannot prove that you are in this country legally.

That's right folks. Virginia's cops aren't busy enough trying to stop the weapons purchased at gun shows here from illegally flowing into the rest of the nation, where there are more sensible gun control laws. And, apparently, all the background checks on all the nut-jobs that buy guns at these largely unregulated gun shows and shoot up our campuses have been effectively screened and apprehended.

The Washington Post is reporting that Cuccinelli will not be outdone by Arizona when it comes to trampling the rights of Virginians and instilling fear in the hearts of women and children:

"Our opinion basically said that Virginia law enforcement has the authority to make such inquiries so long as they don't extend the duration of a stop by any significant degree,'' Cuccinelli (R) said at a news conference Monday. "That's consistent with Supreme Court authority."

The attorney general issued the opinion in response to a request from Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), who sought clarification on whether local police, conservation officers and zoning officials could inquire about legal status.

So what if Virginia is about a thousand miles from the nearest international border? We will not sit by idly and let that Arizona whipper-snapper Gov. Jan Brewer be the face of tyranny and oppression. Virginia was the capitol of the Confederacy and still has a very active KKK, dammit! Nobody out-bigots Virginia, not while Cooch is on the job!

I'm so proud.

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Virginia Partisans Send Message to Atty. General: "Kiss My Cooch!"

Via The Washington Post:
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be the special guest at the Capital Pride Festival this weekend -- only he doesn't know it yet.

The Virginia Partisans, a gay rights group with thousands of members in the state, will ask parade attendees to "kiss" a life-size cutout of the controversial attorney general in an event they are affectionately calling "Smooches for Cooch."

The group will send a collection of photos of people kissing Cuccinelli to the attorney general along with the message that Virginia is for all lovers. The same motto will appear on stickers and banners at the group's booth along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route Sunday.

Cuccinelli, who advised public colleges that they could not legally prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, has called the practice of homosexuality "a detriment to our culture" and "wrong."

The Partisans hope Cuccinelli will be just the draw they need to recruit members. The group considered a petition drive, but abandoned it because members thought it was too passé.

"We're sending our love to Ken Cuccinelli,'' said Terry Mansberger, president of the Virginia Partisans. "He's the gift that keeps on giving."

A spokesman for Cuccinelli had no comment.

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BlogActive's Mike Rogers: "Republican Mark Kirk is gay."

Blogger Mike Rogers, of BlogActive, who famously outed Congressman Larry Craig and and four other closeted, anti-gay politicians has set his sights on Republican Mark Kirk, who's currently running for the Illinois senate seat once held by Barack Obama.

Rogers reports that, although Kirk has a pretty good rating from HRC on LGBT issues, it was his decision not to vote in favor of DADT repeal that prompted him to expose the GOP closet case. Ironically, Kirk served as a  Navy reservist for 21 years and could have been kicked out under DADT. Over the weekend Rogers wrote on his blog:

Within hours of the DADT repeal vote I was contacted by two people who knew Kirk from his college days.

"In law school in DC everyone knew Mark was gay," the first source told me. I explained that the information was intriguing, it would not be enough to go on. He continued, "But I had sex with him a number of times." Well, now we're onto something I thought. "Could someone verify for me that you knew Kirk and went to school with him?" I asked. "Yes" was the swift reply. "Could you recall personal details about Kirk that others may not know?" "Yes," he said.

And he did.

The next source claimed to have gone to undergraduate school with Kirk. I asked for proof that he and Kirk were in school together and once that was shared with me, I met with the source. The source introduced me to a man who had also been friends with Kirk in college. They both shared with me their interactions with Kirk, including one sexual in nature. The source who claimed to have sex with Kirk described personal details about the House, um, er, "member." The description was the same as the first source.

Kirk is also under fire in the mainstream press for exaggerating his military service in his campaign and for lying about an award he claims to have received for his military service in Kosovo. The Washington Post reports this morning:

Rep. Mark Kirk, the GOP candidate for the Senate seat once held by President Obama, misrepresented his military record as recently as last summer, according to a Web video for Kirk's campaign that resurfaced Tuesday.

"The Navy named Mark Intelligence Officer of the Year for his combat service in Kosovo," the narrator of the two-minute video says, while photos of Kirk in military attire scroll in the background.

Kirk, whose Illinois Senate campaign has emphasized his service in the Navy Reserves, acknowledged last week that he did not receive the award, despite a claim in his official biography and his own statements in a 2002 House committee hearing. A unit Kirk led in Aviano, Italy, received an award from the National Military Intelligence Association for outstanding service in 2000.

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Desmond Tutu Speaks Out for LGBT Rights

"Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity -- or because of their sexual orientation."

So writes Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an editorial that appeared in the Washington Post on Friday. Tutu compares the current wave of homophobia sweeping Africa to the South African system of Apartheid, which denied native Africans their civil rights by creating a separate and extremely unequal social system.

Tutu continues, "Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people are part of so many families. They are part of the human family. They are part of God's family. And of course they are part of the African family. But a wave of hate is spreading across my beloved continent. People are again being denied their fundamental rights and freedoms."

Tutu calls on church and political leaders to end the persecution of LGBT Africans, "But they are sinners," I can hear the preachers and politicians say. "They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished." My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Does God love his dark- or his light-skinned children less? The brave more than the timid? And does any of us know the mind of God so well that we can decide for him who is included, and who is excluded, from the circle of his love?

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This is why Virginia is a National Joke

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In case you're just tuning in, this is what you've missed about the Commonwealth of Virginia. Same-sex marriage is bad. Legislating against the biblical end of days is good.

Delegate Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg) has introduced a bill that would ban the forced implantation of microchips in humans. A lot of states have these laws, it's no big deal really. These are the chips that help you find your lost dog. The use of this technology has been proposed for tracking Alzheimer's patients who wander off or, potentially protecting children. There has never been a proposal anywhere that these implants ought to be mandatory. Okay so far, right?

The difference here is that Cole's rationale for passing this bill is to prevent the biblical end of days. Del. Cole admits he's no Bible scholar, but he's heard that a lot of people think of microchips as the mark of the beast. Cole told the Washington Post, "My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times," Cole said. "Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."

According to the Post, Cole's paranoia leads him to believe that the growing use of microchips could allow employers, insurers or the government to track people against their will and that implanting a foreign object into a human being could also have adverse health effects. "I just think you should have the right to control your own body," Cole said.

So, in case you're keeping track, in Virginia you should have the right to control your own body and keep the government from implanting a microchip that may or may not be the mark of some mythical beast that will bring about the end of the world, which, since it's a prophecy, can't be stopped anyway.

However, in Virginia you do not have the right to control your own body if your body wants to marry another body of the same sex so you can build a life together, because that's just crazy talk.

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