WaPo: Virginia Governor's Race Erupts Over Candidate's Anti-Gay, Sexist Graduate Thesis

[marmar]

Governor's Race Erupts Over McDonnell's Past Views

By Amy Gardner, Rosalind S. Helderman and Anita Kumar
Washington Post Staff Writers

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Virginia governor's race ignited Monday over Republican Robert F. McDonnell's 20-year-old graduate thesis: Democrats assailed him in e-mail blasts and interviews for what he wrote about working women, homosexuals and "fornicators," and McDonnell tried to explain his views to crucial moderate and female voters.

After a sleepy summer filled with rural RV tours and policy papers on energy and the economy, news of the thesis, first reported Sunday in The Washington Post, pushed the race to a fever pitch.

McDonnell's opponent, Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, bombarded state and national media with details of the thesis, submitted by McDonnell in 1989 for a master of arts in public policy and juris doctorate in law from Regent University in Virginia Beach.

McDonnell, meanwhile, spoke by telephone to reporters for nearly 90 minutes, saying that his views have changed on many of the issues he explored as a graduate student. He also released a list of women who support his campaign.

"I'm disappointed but not surprised that my opponent wants to make this a central issue in the campaign," said McDonnell, the former state attorney general and a 14-year veteran of the House of Delegates. "During my years in the General Assembly, Senator Deeds would suggest that I have this undue focus on social issues. That's just a flat misrepresentation." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083103855.html

[Demoiselle]

1. How could such a thesis earn anybody a degree?

...Bashing working women, homosexuals and "fornicators?" Has anybody challenged the accreditation of "Regent University?"

OK, I'll admit it...I didn't go to the link. So if it turns out that Regents isn't acredited, or he never got a degree....I'm sorry. I just can't bring myself to read the whole thing.

[Botany]

3. Regent University is a Pat Robertson Production.

The university's current motto is "Christian Leadership to Change the World". from wiki

Famous alumni include Monica Goodling, the former # 3 lawyer @ the Dept. of Justice who helped in voting
caging in 2004 and hired only the "right type" of people to work @ the DoJ.

[Demoiselle]

6. Boy, am I stupid!

I KNEW THAT "REGENT" was bogus. i just forgot!

[atreides1]

4. Provisional in 1989

In 1989, the ABA offered the Christian law school ``provisional'' accreditation, saying the school would have to address concerns about issues such as finances and academic freedom before it could receive full accreditation.

[Botany]

2. McDonnell just had his macaca moment

In the thesis, "The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade," McDonnell described working women as
"detrimental" to the traditional family. He criticized a U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing contraception for unmarried couples and decried
the "purging" of religion from schools. He advocated character education programs in public schools to teach "traditional Judeo-Christian
values," and he criticized federal tax credits for child care expenditures because they encouraged women to enter the workforce.

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McDonnell's VA Governor Race 2009 is now over. Thanx for coming Bob get your t-shirt and parting gifts at the door.

[TankLV]

5. Regent University - nuff said...

ANYBODY from that CULT should be AUTOMATICALLY BARRED from any form of Public Service or Public Trust...EVER!

And ANYBODY running against them should NOT be afraid to VILIFY with them for that...

And we should TRUST him to not "hold those view" anylonger just like ASHCROFT told us he "no longer held such views" and his BATTLE AGAINST TITS ON STATUES, among other travesties...

I especially like how these REPUKES, when CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN AROUND THEIR ANKLES, say how "unfair" it is to use THEIR OWN WORDS AND RECORD against them!!!

But, at the same time, they can just LIE and MAKE SHIT UP OUT OF THIN AIR, and expect to be taken SERIOUSLY!!!