Republicans in Virginia rejected constitutional amendments to restore the voting rights of people who have been convicted of felonies and to remove anti-LGBTQ language from the state constitution.
Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates have rejected constitutional amendments to restore the voting rights of people who have been convicted of felonies and to remove anti-LGBTQ language from the state constitution — meaning that Virginians will not be able to vote on the measures during the state’s midterm elections this fall.must be approved by two concurrent sessions of the state legislature.
Virginia barred same-sex marriage in an amendment that passed in 2006. In 2015, the federal Supreme Court ruled that states could not restrict marriage on the basis of sex or gender., gave an impassioned speech ahead of the party-line vote in which Republicans rejected the marriage equality amendment.
Republican opponents of the amendment claimed that they voted against the measure because its framework would make it possible for the state to legalize polygamy. But, clarifying that the state would recognize marriages “equally under the law regardless of the sex or gender of the parties to the marriage.”
“Virginians who have paid their debt to society deserve to have their voices heard at the ballot box,”. “We wont [sic] stop fighting until we fully reverse this Jim Crow era law and make restoration of voting rights automatic.”
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