I have been asked more than once in the past few days, what I think of the McDonnell verdict. I hear so many people excusing this man and his wife for what we all recognize as greed and wrongdoing. Yes, I do know he is not the first. I also know folks totally ignored the thesis he himself published in college, and that appalled me. He was in office mostly to correct the separation of government and church. I, for one, hope NEVER to see this happen. Remember his manifesto that he denied, until he got in office and pursued it actively? From the very start of his political career McDonald championed conservative causes, but few questioned his motivations. He was pro-gun and anti-choice. His thesis gave insight as to why. In the 1989 document titled “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade,” he declared working women and feminists as detrimental to the family and proposed policy changes that would limit divorce. As a state legislator, he voted against a resolution that would end wage discrimination between men and women, introduced proposals that would make divorce harder and create a legal type of marriage that would require a written declaration of a lifetime commitment. Those proposals failed to pass. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a decades’ old thesis that outlined a Republican vision in which he wrote “leaders must correct the conventional folklore about the separation of church and state,” McDonnell went on to become Virginia’s 71st governor. - June Folke
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:14:13 +0000
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