In a devastating front-page exposé, this morning’s Washington Post examines the governing philosophy at the core of Bob McDonnell’s extreme ideological agenda. It’s all outlined in a 93-page paper he wrote just before entering politics. The Post calls it a “blueprint,” “a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.” Among other things, McDonnell argued that working women, contraception and child day care programs harmed society.

He described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family. He described as “illogical” a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

We’ve said all along that Bob’s election year rhetoric about prioritizing jobs and the economy is nothing more than a façade. Now, voters are getting to see a glimpse of the Bob McDonnell that his campaign is desperately trying to hide. 

UPDATE: Women all across Virginia are OUTRAGED, and are telling Bob McDonnell that they are not detrimental. What can you do? Write a letter to the editor NOW!

If Bob McDonnell becomes governor, he’ll continue to use this thesis as a blueprint for pushing his extreme social agenda that will take Virginia backwards.

Below is an excerpt of the article and link to full article, fact sheet, and McDonnell’s thesis.

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’89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell
Washington Post Staff Writer
By Amy Gardner
Sunday, August 30, 2009

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At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.” He described as “illogical” a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell said the Republican Party should follow to protect American families — a vision that he started to put into action soon after he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

  McDonnell thesis (5.1 MiB)

During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women…

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