Virginia Attorney General won’t uphold state marriage amendment
RICHMOND, VA, January 27, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Only weeks after taking his oath of office, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is already violating it by opposing the state's amendment keeping marriage between a man and a woman, say critics. “As a legislator, Herring supported this Constitutional Amendment . Now, as Attorney General, he is using the power of his office to actively oppose it,” Eve Marie Barner Gleason, a member of the Virginia Republic State Central Committee, told LifeSiteNews. “This is exactly backwards. As a legislator, he was free to oppose the amendment, but as Attorney General, he is bound by his honor and oath of office to defend it.” Herring, who voted to prevent same-sex “marriage” from becoming legal in 2006, told Politico that his position has changed and “as attorney general I cannot and will not defend laws that violate Virginians’ rights.” According to Politico, Herring said he has pledged “to put the law and put Virginians