WTF Virginia?
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Virginia's colleges and universities cannot prohibit discrimination against gays because the General Assembly has not authorized them to do so.
In a letter Thursday to the presidents, rectors and boards of visitors of Virginia public colleges, Cuccinelli said: the law and public policy of Virginia "prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation', 'gender identity', 'gender expression' or like classification, as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy, absent specific authorization from the General Assembly."
Cuccinelli said the General Assembly has defined protected classes on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, age, marital status or disability, but “on numerous occasions considered and rejected creating a protected class on the basis of sexual orientation.
www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/state_regional_govtpolitics/article/CUCCGAT05_20100305-182601/328592/
It's one thing to say, "We don't have a state law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation but individual schools can put their own rules in place" (which is what we've done in Washington) and NOT ALLOWING THEM TO DO SO. Basically what AG Cuccinelli is doing is giving Virginia colleges an authorization to discriminate. I'm sure the folks at Liberty University are doing cartwheels over this. But the rest of us would like to ask, WTF Virginia???