W&M president assures students and staffers that school won't discriminate...

College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley just sent out a note to the school's students, faculty and staff assuring them that the school won't discriminate against gays regardless of the legal opinion of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Reveley said that the school's lawyers - presumably including State Sen. Thomas K. "Tommy" Norment- are working to digest the opinion Cuccinelli sent out to schools last week. But then he takes it a step further saying that the school hasn't tolerated discrimination before and it won't start now. 

Here's the letter in full:

Dear William & Mary Community,

Virginia’s Attorney General has written public colleges and universities in the Commonwealth about their anti-discrimination policies. At William & Mary, we need to review carefully the AG’s views as a matter of law and policy, as well as seek the counsel of the campus community, including of course our Board of Visitors. This process has just begun.

For now, let’s be clear that William & Mary neither discriminates against people nor tolerates discrimination on our campus. Those of us at W&M insist that members of our campus community be people of integrity who have both the capacity to meet their responsibilities to the university and the willingness to engage others with civility and respect. We do not insist, however, that members of our community possess any other particular characteristics, whether denominated in race, religion, nationality, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other of the myriad personal characteristics that differentiate human beings. We certainly do not discriminate against people on such grounds, or tolerate discrimination against them. This is the way we live our lives together at William & Mary, because we believe this is the way we should live our lives together. This is not going to change.

Taylor Reveley

Comments

[Grover Leoning]

You are misrepresenting the facts of this case.

Mr. Cuccinelli has merely correctly pointed out that the Boards of Visitors at the colleges do not have the authority to create new protected classes, without the General Assembly giving them that power.

It is a moot point that previous governors have circumvented the Peoples' elected representatives by adding the homosexuals to special protected status by use of Executive Order.

Given that we are all supposed to be equal under the law, as stated in the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution, these protected classes are ALL unconstitutional and should ALL be struck down by our Supreme Court.

What is disturbing to most citizens, is that neither Party has sought to abolish these special protected classes, and to restore our citizens to the equal status under the law.

If you recall the book, Animal Farm, the main fallacy of the pigs on the farm was that as soon as they ascended to power they created a revised constitution where equality was abolished and replaced with an edict that. "...some citizens are more equal than others..."

We no have such a corrupt body of law as part of our reality here in America. We need to restore Constitutional government and abolish special protected classes of citizens.

[James Young]

"William & Mary neither discriminates against people nor tolerates discrimination on our campus"? "C" students all over the Commonwealth can, I suppose, look forward to receiving acceptance letters from William & Mary. And I suppose they will no longer "discriminate" between those who drink to excess and those who don't.

Unless, of course, he's lying, and what it's really about is promoting licentiousness.

Which, of course, it is.