Folks, Clarence Thomas isn’t done taking away rights - he wants to go after same-sex marriage and contraception. He wrote the following in Friday’s Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v Wade:
"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents."
- Griswold established that married couples have the right to purchase contraception. It laid the foundation for complete legalization that we enjoy today.
- Lawrence established the right of two consenting adults of the same sex to engage in physical intimacy.
- Obergefell guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage.
Virginia still has outdated and immoral laws on the books criminalizing same-sex marriage. If the court overturns Obergefell, those laws will snap back into place immediately. We need to elect more Democrats to the General Assembly to repeal that law — chip in now to help us defend Abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in Virginia!
Virginia needs more pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, & pro-democracy elected officials. That’s where the Democratic Party of Virginia comes in. We work year-round to elect Democrats to offices from school boards to the halls of Congress and the White House.
But we can only do so much without your support. Flipping seats takes time, money, and effort and we rely on small-dollar contributions to power the work we do.
Can we count on you to chip in $25 today so that we can keep working to elect pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ Democrats across the commonwealth?
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