The resolution would have two be approved by the General Assembly in 20 since it is in Virginia’s Constitution. This will continue to be a developing situation throughout the upcoming session and possibly beyond. Wade earlier this year.Ĭonservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in June that the court should review and reverse previous “errors” under the 14th Amendment right to equal protection. Virginia Beach delegate candidate Tim Anderson campaigned against COVID relief funds, but received nearly 750K for his businesses. While the Supreme Court made these types of bans illegal in 2015, advocates are worried that the current Supreme Court could overturn that decision as they did with Roe v.

Don’t fall for it,” said Kevin Saucedo-Broach, a staffer for Del. “The same Virginia Republicans who have made life hell for LGBTQ Virginians are trying to paper over their Fear the Queer hate campaign by supporting half measures to clean up the bigotry they put into Virginia’s constitution 15 years ago. Their efforts earlier this year were defeated by the Republican-held House of Delegates. Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax) plan to introduce a repeal of the ban again. Protecting children from adult content is not anti-LGBTQ and certainly had nothing to do with the Colorado shooting.”Īnderson then said he plans to continue to protect children from a “woke, Marxist liberal mob.”ĭemocrats have been trying to repeal this ban for years but Republicans have blocked them each step of the way. The lawsuit sought limited relief, which is not to sell the book which contains extreme graphic sexual images to minors. :The premise, that the lawsuit sought to ban Barnes and Noble from selling Gender Queer is false. “The connection is as fictional as the belief the Pilot has an ounce of journalistic integrity,” Anderson said. The Pilot said efforts like the one from Anderson to remove this book from children’s libraries as an example of the “exhaustive and relentless opposition” that LGBTQ Americans face.Īnderson referred to the editorial as fiction. The editorial section of the Virginian-Pilot recently criticized Anderson for the lawsuit and connected it to the tragedy that happened at Club Q in Colorado. 'This was simply just saying these have really sexual explicit content and it's not appropriate for kids.'

'This was never never about trying to ban gay literature or trans literature,' Anderson said. On the lawsuit that was eventually dismissed by a judge earlier this year, Anderson said: “Gender Queer” recounts the author’s journey from adolescence to adulthood and their exploration of gender identity and sexuality, ultimately identifying as being outside of the gender binary. The provision was placed into the Constitution 16 years ago and defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.Īs pointed out by the Virginia Progressive Legislative Alert Network, Anderson recently sued to have “Gender Queer” removed from children’s book sections.

This law has already been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court but the ban still remains on Virginia’s books. Tim Anderson (Virginia Beach) filed a bill for the upcoming General Assembly’s legislative session that would repeal the ban on same-sex marriage in Virginia.

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