Never say that progress doesn’t happen. The Commonwealth of Virginia may be — in 2013 — about to repeal its longstanding law against (heterosexual) cohabitation by unmarried persons. The legislature may also compensate people who were forcibly sterilized by the state — as late as 1979. The state’s multiple bans on gay marriage remain in force, of course. But progress has to start somewhere.
I wrote about Virginia’s long record of intrusions into the private lives of its citizens in my article “Virginia Is for (Homoracial, Heterosexual, Mentally Adequate) Lovers” at reason.com a few years ago. And about the state’s gay marriage ban in 2006.
