VA AG Ken Cuccinelli tells board it must allow adoption agencies to discriminate on basis of sexual orientation and political beliefs

With two members absent, the Virginia Board of Social Services voted 5-1 to allow state-licensed adoption agencies to discriminate against prospective adoptive and foster parents based on their sexual orientation, political beliefs and other personal characteristics, nullifying previous rules disallowing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, age, disability, gender, family status and political beliefs even though most most of the 3,000 comments made during the comment period favored leaving the rules as they were.

Virulent homophobe and GOP Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, told the board that it lacked the authority to bar private and faith-based groups from discriminating against gay people.

Bruning (left), Cuccinelli

Cuccinelli and Nebraska's Jon Bruning, also a heterosexual supremacist, were the only refuseniks to a recent letter signed by the AGs of every other U.S. state urging members of Congress "to reject the Mobile Informational Call Act of 2011 (H.R. 3035), which would expand robocalls to cell phones. Excerpt:

"Currently, federal law bans robocalls to cell phones unless the consumer gives prior express consent. H.R. 3035 would change the law and undermine federal and state efforts to shield consumers from a flood of solicitation, marketing, debt collection and other unwanted calls and texts to their cell phones. In the process, H.R. 3035 also would shift the cost of these calls — such as debt collection and marketing calls — to consumers, placing a significant burden on low income consumers. Furthermore, H.R. 3035 will create obstacles to effective enforcement of state consumer protection laws. H.R. 3035 goes far beyond the stated goal of giving debt collectors a new avenue to contact debtors and unnecessarily allows businesses to robocall or text consumers without the consumers' prior express consent.
"We urge you to reject H.R. 3035 as harmful to consumers."