"In the race for Sterling District supervisor, the diversity of the district is nowhere more apparent than it is with incumbent Republican incumbent Eugene Delgaudio and Democratic challenger Doug Reimel.
"Reimel, a homosexual who is endorsed by Virginia Partisans, a gay rights group, is taking on Delgaudio, who champions anti-gay positions as the executive director of a conservative foundation. His opposition to gay rights issues have earned him a label in some circles of 'homophobe.'"
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"“A lot of what he
says is pretty far out there,” said Josh Israel, president of Virginia Partisans in Arlington. “The people of Sterling don’t know what their supervisor believes and does. It’s wonderful that he doesn’t want this to be an issue, then he shouldn’t be spending his time demagoguing and insulting millions of Americans, gays, lesbians or straight.”
Added Israel, “It’s wonderful that he doesn’t think he hates anyone, but his comments certainly convey opposition to basic equal treatment and fairness.”
The Supreme Court ruled that Virginia’s sodomy law, the so-called “crimes against nature law” is unconstitutional. It’s still technically on the books but not enforced, and the General Assembly next year may try to repeal it, Israel said.
Delgaudio is pushing for a constitutional amendment in Congress to define marriage, supporting legislation for an amendment which would prohibit rights for same sex couples such as civil unions and domestic partnership benefits, according to Israel. Same-sex marriages aren’t allowed in Virginia.
In a release from Public Advocate, Delgaudio praises Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) for her constitutional amendment to define marriage as consisting “only of the union of a man and woman.”
The amendment would empower the states to determine on their own whether to accept “civil unions” that occurred elsewhere as legally binding.
Public Advocate filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of Lawrence v. Texas, arguing that there is no constitutional basis which would allow the court to protect sexually deviant behavior.
Scoffing the notion of overturning the anti-sodomy law, Delgaudio boasted in a release that he held up a poster in Washington of a “Saddamy Free Zone,” illustrating that “the court must not turn its back on God and America’s families if we wish to be successful in overthrowing the Iraqi dictator.”
In its gay rights agenda, Virginia Partisans is trying to get the Virginia Legislature to pass a law that expands the hate crimes statute to protect people who are victimized because of their sexual orientation.
Delgaudio, said Israel, describes hate crimes laws as “Ted Kennedy’s thought control bill.”
On Delgaudio's Public Advocate Web site, he has a news release saying he delivered boxes filled with thousands of petitions to senators on Capitol Hill in an effort to continue to stop the “extremist homosexual agenda in its tracks.”
The petitions ask senators to fight Kennedy’s “Thought Control, or so-called hate-crimes bill, which is continuously being pushed by the Senate’s far left leadership.”
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