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VCU students sound off on AG opinion

By: Olympia Meola
Published: March 09, 2010 7:25 PM

About 1,000 Virginia Commonwealth University students and faculty packed forums today to air their thoughts on Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s opinion that gays cannot be included in state anti-discrimination policies.

So many people turned out that the school added a fifth forum. The meetings were held on both the academic and medical campuses.
Speakers expressed deep concerns over the opinion and urged VCU’s administration to retain its policy, according to the T-D’s Karin Kapsidelis, who covered the forums.

Cuccinelli says Virginia’s colleges and universities cannot prohibit discrimination against gays because the General Assembly has not authorized them to do so.

In a letter sent last week to the presidents, rectors and boards of visitors of Virginia public colleges, Cuccinelli said: the law and public policy of Virginia “prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation’, ‘gender identity’, ‘gender expression’ or like classification, as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy, absent specific authorization from the General Assembly.“

He said the recipients must consider the letter “as the opinion and advice” of the office of Attorney General. And he said those colleges or universities that have included sexual orientation in their policies acted without proper authority and those policies are invalid.


If a private business (which is regulated by the state) already has a policy which has sexual orientation and/or gender identity policies, they should remove them as well?

Hypocrisy, thy name is Ken Cuccinelli!

Marlene of Richmond, Virginia
Mar. 10, 2010 at 05:18 AM



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