{"id":189742,"date":"2010-02-17T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/big-surprise-old-dominion-governor-rolls-back-protections-for-gay-workers\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:39:00","slug":"big-surprise-old-dominion-governor-rolls-back-protections-for-gay-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/17\/big-surprise-old-dominion-governor-rolls-back-protections-for-gay-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise, Old Dominion Governor Rolls Back Protections for Gay Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, now that Bob McDonnell is now Virginia governor, he <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/02\/virginia-gov-bob-mcdonnell-rolls-back-non-discrimination-protections-for-gay-state-workers.php\">repealed the protections instituted by his predecessor for gay and lesbian state workers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>McDonnell (R) on Feb. 5 signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination &#8220;on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities,&#8221; as well as veterans.<\/p>\n<p>It rescinds the order that Gov. Tim Kaine signed Jan. 14, 2006 as one of his first actions. After promising a &#8220;fair and inclusive&#8221; administration in his inaugural address, Kaine (D) added veterans to the non-discrimination policy &#8211; and sexual orientation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s because they need someone to hate, or they would have nothing to campaign on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, now that Bob McDonnell is now Virginia governor, he repealed the protections instituted by his predecessor for gay and lesbian state workers: McDonnell (R) on Feb. 5 signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination &#8220;on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,969,1009,1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-government","category-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}