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Dems in VA tried to strip marriage from state constitution

Dems in VA tried to strip marriage from state constitution


Dems in VA tried to strip marriage from state constitution

Virginia's state constitution is still upholding traditional and biblical marriage after an almost-successful effort to strip the document of language affirming it, and a conservative activist predicts that fight is just beginning.

According to The Associated Press, a constitutional amendment passed the General Assembly last year, when Democrats controlled the legislature, but the measure must be approved a second time before it goes before the public in a voter referendum.

Angry voters have since booted Democrats from power, however, and the must-pass measure failed to get out of a subcommittee this week where it was voted down 5-4.

A second measure, to restore voting rights to convicted felons, also died in the same committee, the AP said.

Victoria Cobb, who leads the Family Foundation of Virginia, says the pro-LGBT push never stops.

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“It is dead for now but anytime you see language that would permit same-sex marriage, polygamy and more, you need to be very alarmed,” she tells AFN. “So we will be in a watchful mode over the next several years because these things come back.”

Democrats in the Virginia legislature want the constitution amended to reflect the current times and after a U.S. Supreme Court decision upheld same-sex marriage.

According to the liberal AP, Virginia’s constitution contains “legally outdated language” that prohibits same-sex marriage.