Breast On Virginia Seal Covered Up

Virginia's attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is hard at work on the
important issues of the day -- like making sure the Roman goddess
depicted on his state's official seal isn't exposing herself.

The current seal shows "Virtus, the goddess of virtue, dressed as a
warrior," with her foot resting "on the chest of the figure of tyranny,
who is lying on the ground." She is holding a spear and her left breast
is exposed.

Or at least it was exposed. At a recent meeting, Cuccinelli provided
pins to his staff with a new seal on which "Virtus' bosom is covered by
an armored breastplate," the Virginia Pilot reported. These new pins
were not paid for by taxpayer dollars, Cuccinelli's office insisted.

The original state seal was designed by George Wythe, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, and was first adopted in 1776, according to
a Virginia state website. But so much for that.

"When you ask to be ridiculed, it usually happens. And it will happen
here, nationally," University of Virginia political scientist Larry
Sabato told the Pilot. "This is classical art, for goodness' sake."

And indeed, the mockery has already begun. "I'm outraged -- no longer
can the Virginia state seal be the centerfold of the state seal
magazine," leading Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett joked to HuffPost.

Cuccinelli has previously gained national notoriety for questioning
President Obama's citizenship, rescinding protections for gays and
lesbians at Virginia universities, and claiming that homosexuals engage
in behavior that is "intrinsically wrong" and offensive to "natural law."

Cuccinelli's move harkens back to the decision by President Bush's
attorney general John Ashcroft to place drapes over the Spirit of
Justice statue in the Justice Department's Great Hall.


We have right-wing morons among us.


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