VA Governor Orders Only Pro-LGBT Groups Receive State Contracts
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed an executive order barring the state from giving contracts to businesses that do not have antidiscrimination policies regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
Critics of the executive order say that the measure sanctions religious discrimination against businesses owned by individuals who hold moral objections to homosexuality and transgenderism.
The Family Foundation of Virginia's president Victoria Cobb denounced EO 61 as an attack on faith, labeling it an "unconstitutional act of intimidation and bullying of businesses and charities."...
Paul Fountain | 1/30/2009
