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Sauron · 07-25-2003, 11:23 AM

Yew might have one of them ho-mo-SEX-yew-alls movin' in right next door to ya!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Jul25.html

Quote:

Va. Offers Low-Interest Lending to Same-Sex Couples
Housing Authority to Offer Rates to Same-Sex Couples

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 25, 2003; 1:18 PM

RICHMOND, July 25-Virginia's housing authority will provide low-interest mortgages to gay couples and other singles living together, abandoning a one-of-a-kind lending policy that limited such help to married couples and single people living alone, commissioners decided today.

The unanimous decision by the Virginia Housing Development Authority was immediately denounced by religious, conservative and family organizations as an assault on marriage and a cave-in to a gay-rights agenda. They vowed to reverse the decision in the General Assembly this winter.

Toto · 07-25-2003, 01:10 PM

This seems to be a virtual duplicate of this active thread in PD:

Jerry Falwell must be having fits about now...

so I will direct comments on the issue to that thread unless someone can come up with a unique church state angle on this issue.

From the article:

Quote:

Housing advocates, realtors and representatives of the mortgage and home building industries hailed the decision as a common-sense change that will allow people who are not related to pool their resources to buy a house. Under the rule, elderly singles living together, college friends and other single people were barred from applying jointly for a VHDA loan.

Advocates also said the elimination of the authority's "family rule" ends two decades of discrimination against homosexual couples. No other state or federal mortgage lender imposes similar restrictions on their applicants for home loans.

So all those other lenders have already signed on to the homosexual agenda in any case!

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