For those who haven't heard yet...

[marcmagus]

In this post, penknife informed the LJ community of Virginia's Marriage Affirmation Act.

The bill, whose full text can be read here, prohibits any same sex civil union or contract which "[purports] to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage".

Further commentary by Equality Virginia suggests that this could invalidate Powers of Attorney, custody arrangement, health insurance benefits, and wills involving same sex partnerships.

Comments

[oldsilenus.livejournal.com]

Well, Virginia was a slave state, and Jefferson was a slave owner. It doesn't seem like that much of a turn of affairs to me.

And of course there was going to be backlash once the idea of gay marriage hit the mainstream. It'll be one of the big civil rights fights of the coming decade or two. But most likely it will turn out well and right, at least on paper and in law, because that's what tends to happen in this country.