Tracy Thorne-Begland |
In spite of the Virginia Assembly’s rejection of his
nomination—and Pissy Little Bobby Marshall’s stomping and seeing—last week Richmond
Circuit Court judges appointed Tracy Thorne-Begland’s , an openly gay
prosecutor, to the bench.
Thorne-Begland’s appointment to the city’s General
District Court immediately revived one of the most heated issues of the
legislative season and promised to incite even more controversy next year, when
legislators will have the chance to undo the temporary appointment.
The move was hailed by gay rights supporters and some
conservatives, including Governor Robert McDonnell—who was agin it before he
was afer it--who once questioned whether gays who are :::gasp::: sexually
active could serve as judges because they had broken Virginia’s now-invalidated
anti-sodomy statute.
“The Governor believes Mr.
Thorne-Begland is well-qualified to serve on the bench,” McDonnell spokesman
Tucker Martin said. “He congratulates him on the appointment.”
But the appointment enraged
Delegate Robert Marshall—AKA Pissy Bobby—who stood side-by0side with hate
group, the Family Foundation of Virginia, to persuade the General Assembly to
reject Thorne-Begland’s nomination.
“I think it’s highly imprudent
and arrogant on their part,” Pissy said. “I hope Virginia understands what’s
going on here: They’re contesting the authority of the General Assembly. . . . This
is an act of defiance on their part. When appointed officials get in fights
with elected officials, they invariably lose.”
Boo-freaking-hoo.
Tracy Thorne-Begland issued a statement which said, “I am
humbled by the Circuit Court’s decision. I look forward to serving the citizens
of the City of Richmond as a jurist, and over the coming months, I hope that my
service provides comfort to all Virginians that I remain committed to the
faithful application of the laws and Constitutions of Virginia and the United
States of America.”
Um, and that’s his job, Pissy Bobby.
The appointment came after
leaders of Richmond’s five largest law firms urged the Circuit Court appoint Thorne-Begland
to the bench, and on the same day that the Richmond Times-Dispatch published a
letter that Republican delegate, Richard Morris, sent to his caucus, saying
that he had dropped his opposition to Thorne-Begland.
Well, at least one Virginia Republican has his head
screwed on, for lack of a better word, straight.
It was last month that the General Assembly blocked
Thorne-Begland’s appointment in General District Court saying they objected to
Thorne-Begland, not because of his sexual orientation, but because of his
outspokenness on the subject of gay rights.
You know, he’s one of those queers that likes to speak up
instead of staying in a closet and not disturbing the normal folk.
Pissy Bobby Marshall |
And Pissy Bobby Marshall, in his, I think, self-loathing
closeted homosexual, rampage against Thorne-Begland’s appointment, actually
compared him to a polygamist, and said that because Virginia does not recognize
same-sex marriage or civil unions, Thorne-Begland’s “life [is] a contradiction
to the requirement of submission to the constitution.”
I think Pissy Bobby protests
too much.
And, well, as much as the appointment of Thorne-Begland
makes me happy, and, well, as much as I like to see asshats take a tumble, I
can also gleefully report that Pissy Bobby Marshall lost the Republican primary
for the US to former governor George Allen.
And he tried to use the
Thorne-Begland issue against
Allen, who said sexual orientation should not be a factor in selecting judges.
Which means the people of Virginia deserve a little LGBT
Hallelujah for not drinking the Pissy Bobby Hate Kool-Aid.
Still, the fight is not over for Tracy Thorne-Begland. He
will have another fight for a vote in the General Assembly. Last time he needed
51 votes to win appointment and received just 33.
Hopefully next time, saner, less pissy heads will
prevail.
But not Pissy Bobby Marshall he says if Thorne-Begland
was engaged in homosexual sex while in the military, he’s guilty of a felony “Sodomy
is still a felony under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, today, as we
speak.”
Funny, Pissy Bobby is a little obsessed with how much gay
sex Tracy Thorne-Begland may, or may not, have had.
This retroactive obsession is very strange - you can spin it out for all sorts of stuff and it doesn't hold up. Bad laws are, and were, bad law.
ReplyDeleteit's time for Bob to get out
ReplyDeleteYour right, right, right, Mr Pissy Pants is way to obsessed over the sex Mr. Thorne-Begland is having.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't it be that he's good in his line of work, instead of who he's sleeping with?!
ReplyDeleteHow many judges are now going to whores or have an extramarital relationship, or two, three... but THEY can be good judges?