He was against Virginia's amendment but it's impossible to get much gay friendly legislation passed with our current House of Delegates. He signed an executive order to ban discrimination for state employees, I'm fairly sure.
ChangeWeCan'tBelieveIn
· 10 months ago
Kain is against gay marriage AND civil unions.
dacnova
· 10 months ago
I've never known him to go on record against civil unions. He does personally oppose gay marriage, but came out against the amendment that passed. Kaine is a Catholic and is also personally opposed to the death penalty and abortion, but (if Wiki is accurate) he has allowed 8 executions to happen in Virginia and vetoed many bills that would have further restricted abortion.
Virginia is a hard place to win state wide if you're too vocal on LGBT rights. That's slowly changing, though, as the Northern part of the state has increased in population enough that we usually decide elections. Doesn't make us very popular in most of the rest of the state, but they do like our tax income.
As an adopted Virginian, I'm very pleased Tim Kaine got this job. He couldn't step down as governor to take a cabinet position because our LG is a Republican. (Virginia is one of those whacky states where the Gov and LG run separate campaigns.)
Indigo
· 10 months ago
That can't be good.
lucky hussein
· 10 months ago
why? did dean quit? the word 'dean' isn't even in that article! I don't know much about Kaine, but Dean is responsible for getting dems elected in 04 and 08 - certainly not the dlc, dccc, reid, pelosi, hoyer, or rahm f-ing emannuel. OK, so Obama is building a group of confidants in control - what's wrong with Dean?
dacnova
· 10 months ago
Dean announced several weeks ago that he didn't want another term.
CitizenX
· 10 months ago
Perhaps he could be appointed Commerce Secretary, since Richardson is out?
SkippyFlipjack
· 10 months ago
I hope Obama shows Dean some love. He deserves it.
maudgonne
· 10 months ago
Ban the press. Keep the cameras out. By yesterday morning, only hours after the Israeli army went clanking into Gaza to kill more Hamas members – and, of course, more civilians – Hamas was reporting the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Reporters on the ground could have sorted out the truth or the lie about that. But without a single Western journalist in Gaza, the Israelis were left to tell the world that they didn't know if the story was true.
On the other hand, the Israelis are so ruthless that the reasons for the ban on journalism may be quite easily explained: that so many Israeli soldiers are going to kill so many innocents – more than three score by last night, and that's only the ones we know about – that images of the slaughter would be too much to tolerate. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...
mark
· 10 months ago
He'll turn the DNC to the RNC......anti gay, anti choice, anti labor, anti green, pro Iraq War
there will be so few Democrats by 2010, the libertarians will beat them
mark
· 10 months ago
btw, a critical Kaine post I tried to make at Obama's transition blog was censored.....F*CK THAT WHOLE SITE! A Huffington Post writer had a column which makes a verb...." TO OBAMA" "To Obama" for gays means taking Larry Craig's wide stance and lots of KY
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Tim Kaine?
Guess he's better than Rick Warren...
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Virginia is a hard place to win state wide if you're too vocal on LGBT rights. That's slowly changing, though, as the Northern part of the state has increased in population enough that we usually decide elections. Doesn't make us very popular in most of the rest of the state, but they do like our tax income.
As an adopted Virginian, I'm very pleased Tim Kaine got this job. He couldn't step down as governor to take a cabinet position because our LG is a Republican. (Virginia is one of those whacky states where the Gov and LG run separate campaigns.)
On the other hand, the Israelis are so ruthless that the reasons for the ban on journalism may be quite easily explained: that so many Israeli soldiers are going to kill so many innocents – more than three score by last night, and that's only the ones we know about – that images of the slaughter would be too much to tolerate.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...
there will be so few Democrats by 2010, the libertarians will beat them
A Huffington Post writer had a column which makes a verb...." TO OBAMA"
"To Obama" for gays means taking Larry Craig's wide stance and lots of KY
for Warren, Kaine, and Josh DuBois
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-8/1210139/t...