Virginia attorney general prefers covered breast for goddess on state seal

Source: USA Today

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has opted for a more modest version of the Great Seal of the Commonwealth by handing out new lapel pins that cover up the exposed left breast of the Roman Goddess Virtus, the Virginian-Pilot reports.

The newspaper's Julian Walker quotes Cuccinelli's spokesman, Brian Gottstein, as saying the pin was paid for by Cuccinelli's political action committee, not with taxpayer funds.

Gottstein acknowledges that the attorney general has noted Virtus' "more modest attire," and says the new version "harkens back to an older version of the seal."

The newspaper quotes the state capitol historian as saying there have been numerous versions over the years, the most recent dating to new language in the state code in 1930 that said Virtus is "dressed as an Amazon."

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is that the tyrant whom she has bested, as depicted on the seal, has much in common with those who would cover her up.

Very sad for the state.

Especially by those who couldn't pick on an example in a more non-sexualized setting.

There's more nudity in that place than the Playboy mansion! OK, I jest, but there is a great deal of nude art in the Vatican, St. Peter's Cathedral, and the Sistine Chapel. I say if it's good enough for the Pope, it's good enough for me!

Puritans do care about nudity.

Puritans are dreadful too.

He is just trying to stop the earthquakes in Virginia.

:rofl:

Has John Ashcroft been notified?

this is a waste of time and disrespect for what has come before.

now I have to take a trip to Virginia to flash my tits at this numbnnuts. :(

It's either a complaint about a stature depicting partial nudity, or a complaint that a statue is promoting a religion. The stupid never stops...

Well that mothergusher is at it again. I guess we need to have a crazy Republican run state of the day award.

Calling Arizona... Can you trump this craziness?

for crying out loud!! Grow the fuck up already!!!! A woman's breast is the first thing that every child sees up close and personal when they are fresh out of the uterus. I cannot believe that a grown man is so emotionally stunted that he can't get around that. What a fuckin' tool.

but apparently not by the presence of a pagan goddess on the seal? :shrug:

don't give it away, they're too dim to put that together, but then I realized they might not be literate enough to get here.

who couldn't be bothered to get to the polls last November...:mad:

I nearly got the sack.

the goddess has a 36 FFFF out on display!!!

Honestly, I'm going to DC in September, and my friends are talking about staying in Virginia, but I don't think I want to spend any money there.