On Saturday, May 17, Family Foundation of Virginia President Victoria Cobb was interviewed by Scott and Richard Lee on their highly rated Richmond talk show, “Saturday Mornings With The Lee Brothers” on WRVA about the California Supreme Court decision striking down that state’s law banning same-sex marriage.
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Victoria Cobb says its a good thing VA has the constitutional amendment that now bans gay marriage and referred to the California decision as “radical.” I bet she’s glad “radicals” prevailed in 1920 to give women the right to vote in the United States! Many back then argued against it saying that it would give women too much authority over men in contradiction of biblical laws and would damage our society. We now hear the same arguments from groups like yours against gay marriage! The reason Victoria Cobb was able to become director of something other than her own kitchen was because “radicals” and “liberals” changed things for the better. You people are hypocrites. Tell me how gay marriage in the state of Mass. has damaged society like you say it does. Like a philosopher said nearly 400 years ago: People never do evil so completely and so cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
[...] The other reason Virginia comes to mind is that during the 2006 campaign, one of the many points o… of prohibiting any couple (brothers, sisters, business partnerships) from entering into contracts and doing business together. Of course that hasn’t happened and will not happen. Best proof yet? A neighborhood newsletter (we leave no stone unturned in our investigative journalism; click here): One of the leading fundraisers against the Marriage Amendment, Mac Pence of Richmond, and his partner, have bought a historic mansion on Monument Avenue and are converting it to a bed and breakfast. We doubt they even considered that they couldn’t start this business together, proving the homosexual lobby’s disingenuousness from the beginning. [...]