California's Got Arnold... - Virginia's young, up-and-coming Attorney General Jerry Kilgore is facing opposition from a strange direction these days. Anti-gay groups are used to praising him, as when he defended Virginia's sodomy law in the aftermath of SCOTUS's Lawrence decision. But they were hopping mad when Jer decided to sign on to one of those non-discrimination pledges that gay groups circulate from time to time. (I guess this explains why anyone with conservative credentials has to think twice about signing something so innocuous. It's great how, to these people, even Log Cabin types are radical homosexual activists.) Everyone seems to think that the AG was hedging his bets for a prospective run for governor, when he'll need at least a few votes from Northern Virginia's soccer moms. I'm glad to see you can't be a complete right-wing asshole and expect to win the state. Alabama, on the other hand...

P.S. With the end of Virginia's Crimes Against Nature law, bible-thumpers are retrenching and working on how they can amend the old sodomy law to accede to Lawrence while still keeping the homos down. Gay groups are asking that people write the Virginia Crime Commission and urge them not propose changes "that may further stigmatize gay and lesbian Virginians." Something tells me Commission chairman Robert McDonnell, an anti-gay bigot, is interested in hearing from us.