Virginia’s public colleges and universities may be able to ban anti-gay discrimination after all

by E Wayne Ross on March 11, 2010

Inside Higher Ed: Reversal on Anti-Gay Bias

Virginia’s public colleges and universities may be able to ban anti-gay discrimination after all.

Days after the state’s attorney general told the institutions that they couldn’t ban discrimination against gay people, the governor said they could. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s announcement came amid growing student protests about the attorney general’s policy and strong statements by some college officials that suggested they would ignore the attorney general. Both McDonnell and the attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, are Republicans.