Wash. Post’s “Bad Editorial” conveniently ignores VA AG’s marriage amendment analysis
In Sunday’s Washington Post, the editorial board labeled the Virginia Marriage Amendment “A Bad Amendment. The Post argues that even opponents of same-sex “marriage” should reject what it characterized as an “absurdly broad” amendment constituting a threat to “the rights of individuals to enter into private contracts or employers to extend benefits such as health care coverage to unmarried couples.”
This scare tactic is being used around the country to frighten moderate voters out of protecting marriage at the ballot box this November from judicial redefinition down the road. The Post makes only a passing reference to Virginia’s Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell, labeling him a Republican “who backs the measure and dismisses the idea that it is legally problematic.”
One would think from this reference that McDonnell brushed off the Post’s concerns with a flippant wave of the hand. In fact, just three days before the Post’s editorial, the Attorney General issued a thirteen page long official advisory opinion, thoroughly debunking the Post’s ominous speculations.
Hopefully the same voters who elected McDonnell to be the Commonwealth’s top attorney will credit his analysis of the Virginia Marriage Amendment, and vote this November to preserve the unique legal status of our most important social institution against the contemporary threats of redefinition and imitation.