Republican Del. Robert Marshall, who led the charge against Thorne-Begland, faulted the former Navy officer for speaking out publicly?over 20 years ago?against the ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy. (Marshall described this as not mere insubordination, but also a waste of taxpayer money. ?The Navy spent $1 million training him,? Marshall said. ?That?s cheating the country out of the investment in him.?) Marshall further faulted Thorne-Begland for ?holding himself out as married,? since gay marriage is illegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia. To Marshall, the fact that Thorne-Begland lives in perpetual conflict with the state Constitution would infect and inform his every judicial act?even though the proposed judgeship would have placed Thorne-Begland on the General District Court, the lowest court in Virginia, where no gay rights issue would ever be likely to come before him. And Thorne-Begland has gone so far as to state in writing that he would recuse himself on any issue in which he had a conflict. But that still wasn?t good enough for the commonwealth. Because in Virginia, the only way to be sure that there is no discrimination from judges is by discriminating.
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