Virginia Measure Would Impose Radical Gender Ideology

Americans are increasingly waking up to the profound harm caused by the counterfactual claim that, with the help of drugs and surgery, men and women can change their sex. Lawmakers in Virginia, however, seem unaware of the moment.

On Tuesday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a measure that, if eventually enacted, would amend the state’s constitution to eliminate language limiting marriage to “one man and one woman” and replace it with language creating a fundamental right for any two persons to marry regardless of their “sex, gender, or race.” For the most part, this restates existing law. The Supreme Court held in Loving v. Virginia that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects “the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race.” And the high court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that the fundamental right to marry extends to same-sex couples.

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Americans are increasingly waking up to the profound harm caused by the counterfactual claim that, with the help of drugs and surgery, men and women can change their sex. Lawmakers in Virginia, however, seem unaware of the moment.

On Tuesday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a measure that, if eventually enacted, would amend the state’s constitution to eliminate language limiting marriage to “one man and one woman” and replace it with language creating a fundamental right for any two persons to marry regardless of their “sex, gender, or race.” For the most part, this restates existing law. The Supreme Court held in Loving v. Virginia that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects “the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race.” And the high court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that the fundamental right to marry extends to same-sex couples.