For Virginians in unhappy marriages, you may be free to bolt, cuz you maybe ain't married!

[Stinky The Clown]

Virginia's Certified Loon™ AG, Ken Cuccinelli, has determined that if your marriage was performed anyplace but Virginia, you're not married.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA) -- Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has issued yet another controversial opinion, this time about marriage in the Commonwealth. It's left local married couples wondering if they're now living in sin!

A legal opinion by Cuccinelli launched the controversy. A court clerk in Prince William County asked the Attorney General about a couple with a Virginia marriage license whose ceremony was performed by someone authorized in Virginia, but they held their wedding in Bethesda, Maryland. The Attorney General said marriages taking place outside of Virginia are not valid in the Commonwealth.

9NEWS NOW shared the opinion with some couples strolling on a hot summer night along the Alexandria waterfront.

"Oh. So we're not married this week? That's great. I always wanted to shack up. That's good," said Frank Battles, married to his wife, Janet, for 44 years.

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http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=103504&catid=158

THIS is what happens when you fail to vote for sane people. THIS is what the tea party gets you. Even Virginia's Liberty University fuckwit governor must cringe when this human embarrassment opens his fetid piehole.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. As has been said before "Ya just can't make this stuff up!"

[KamaAina]

2. Four words: Full faith and credit.

Four more: Cuccinelli is a jackass.

[kelly1mm]

5. Agreed. Does that apply to consealed weapons permits as well? If not, why? nt

[KamaAina]

7. The issuance of a permit is not (I don't think) a "legal proceeding".

By the way, what does marriage have to do with guns?? Oh, and it's "concealed".

[kelly1mm]

9. OK, so I suppose I need a drivers license for every state I travel to

as well under your definition. Marriage and guns don't (hopefully) have a direct connection. My question was more about your thoughts on what should be the extent of the full faith and credit clause.

[KamaAina]

10. If you move to a new state, you do need that state's driver license

usually within 30 days.

[kelly1mm]

11. What about just passing through, like from PA through MD to VA for a

vacation of less than 30 days? If I have a PA driver's license and a PA consealed weapons permit should the full faith and credit clause mean that I can a) drive in MD and VA, b) carry a consealed weapon in MD and VA, c) both, d) neither?

Would love to read your thoughts on this - it is an interesting question.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I don't believe those words apply here.

They would if they had a Maryland marriage license and married in the state. Then it would be recognized in Virginia.

A license is needed from the state that the marriage will be performed.

[donco6]

3. Just to be clear:

So the article is terribly confusing. But it looks like the couple got a marriage license in VA, then went to MD for the actual ceremony, officiated by a VA-licensed official. So, are they married or not?

As far as I know, if you sign the marriage certificate on the earth or the moon, I'd assume you're married. What difference does it make what physical soil you're on?

[Sinistrous]

4. I wonder if this blindingly brilliant legal opinion also invalidates

marriages of couples who were married in the state in which they were living before they moved to Virginia. The opinion as quoted in the OP would invalidate such, but there may be clarification in context.

[KamaAina]

8. Mark my words. If the repukes get back in power,

they will attempt to put this shitball on the Supreme Court. :scared: