CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – More than 11 years after the first same-sex couples were married in Charlottesville, the General Assembly is poised to quickly make the right for consenting adults to marry one of four new amendments to the state constitution being pushed through both Democratic controlled chambers of the General Assembly.
The amendments also include the automatic restoration of voting rights to felons who have completed their time served, the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, and the ability to temporarily redraw Virginia’s Congressional districts with voter approval in response to Texas’ mid-decade redistricting.
Soon-to-be ex-northern Virginia Delegate and soon-to-be state Finance Secretary Mark Sickles is one of the patrons of the marriage amendment…