A House subcommittee on Tuesday voted 5-4 to reject a proposed constitutional amendment to automatically restore rights to felons who have completed their sentences.
A House subcommittee on Tuesday voted 5-4 to reject a proposed constitutional amendment to automatically restore rights to felons who have completed their sentences.
Lawmakers Move to Strike Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Carol Schall and Mary Townley, with daughter Emily. Schall and Townley sued Virginia for the right to marry, which resulted in a federal court ordering Virginia to allow same-sex marriages in October 2014, before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges. (Photo courtesy the family.)
Virginia is on track to remove a section of its constitution that defines marriage as solely between one man and one woman.
The now-defunct provision enshrined the state’s ban on same-sex marriage when it was ratified in 2006. It signalled to the rest of the country, and to the world, that more than half of Virginia voters were not open to legal recognition of same-sex couples.