Actually, the courts have protected gay rights more than once. I'll find the citations later, but two cases:
A mother in Roanoke sued the school system because Heather Has Two Mommies was in the school library. The Circuit Court there said it was the parents duty to regulate what the child reads, not the library's duty to limit the selection of literature.
A conservative Christian couple, also in Roanoke, tried to evict theire tenants when they learned the men were a couple. The Circuit Court found that they could not evict the men for that, so long as they do not violate lease. Their only recourse was to screen applicants more carefully, and in the case of the two men, to choose not to renew the lease when it was up, because a lease need not be renewed by either party.
So though anti-gay discrimination is alive and well in all sorts of places, VA Courts, some in conservative areas, have upheld gay rights in important, if sometimes subtle, ways.
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:27 pm (UTC)A mother in Roanoke sued the school system because Heather Has Two Mommies was in the school library. The Circuit Court there said it was the parents duty to regulate what the child reads, not the library's duty to limit the selection of literature.
A conservative couple, also in Roanoke, tried to evict theire tenants when they learned the men were a couple. The Circuit Court found that they could not evict the men for that, so long as they do not violate lease. Their only recourse was to screen applicants more carefully, and in the case of the two men, to choose not to renew the lease when it was up, because a lease need not be renewed by either party.
So though anti-gay discrimination is alive and well in all sorts of places, VA Courts, some in conservative areas, have upheld gay rights in important, if sometimes subtle, ways.