LZ Granderson Rips Christian 'Homophobe' Ken Cuccinelli on 'Crossfire'

A discussion of Arizona's SB 1062, the bill that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays based on religious beliefs, quickly ignited on Crossfire after former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli accused Van Jones of being "utterly inaccurate" in describing the bill as discriminatory.

LZ Granderson couldn't stand by and called out Cuccinelli for the wrapping his homophobia in the Bible and being the disgusting homophobe he is.

Ken Cuccinelli Hates Gays So Much He Sought to Further Oppress Them on Last Day in Office

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli hates gays so much that he was thinking about how to further oppress them on his last day in office, Think Progress reports: 

Cuccinelli’s non-binding opinion, which is dated January 10, 2014, concludes that “a Governor may not direct or require any agency of state government to allow same-sex couples to receive joint marital status for Virginia income tax returns.” Cuccinelli’s successor, Democrat Mark Herring, was sworn in January 11.

TP adds:

The question of whether married same-sex couples may file joint Virginia tax forms hinges upon a potential conflict in state law. Although the state constitution includes an expansive ban on same-sex marriages or similar arrangements, gay rights advocates note that forbidding same-sex couples from filing jointly “is in conflict with the state law that requires conformity with federal rules” — married couples of all kinds file joint tax returns under federal law.

Virginia's new governor Terry McAuliffe, on the other hand, made LGBT rights the first issue on his agenda.

McAuliffe projected to narrowly win Virginia governor’s race

Democrat Terry McAuliffe has narrowly defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia’s governor’s race, according to NBC News projections.

The Democratic businessman and former political moneyman prevailed in a tight race with the state attorney general with Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis peeling off limited support from both sides.

McAuliffe, who failed to win the Democratic nomination for governor four years ago, maintained a consistent lead in polls this year in part due to Republican infighting that helped the deeply conservative Cuccinelli secure his party's nomination. And the Democrat tapped into the organization that helped President Barack Obama win the state in two consecutive elections as well as the popularity of his good friends – Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Cuccinelli had distinguished himself as a conservative stalwart during eight years as a state senator and most recently as attorney general. The Republican embraced the ascendant Tea Party movement early on, winning accolades from conservatives for his legal challenges to Obamacare, abortion rights laws and climate change research.

That endeared Cuccinelli to conservatives nationally, but turned some voters at home against him. McAuliffe highlighted more strident examples of Cuccinelli's views to swing voters across Virginia, a state which has become friendlier to Democrats in recent elections due to changing demographics in the state. 

Ken Cuccinelli talks about the "clear and contrasting positions" he and Terry McAuliffe have over Obama's health care plan in the state.

Cuccinelli also contended with backlash over the October government shutdown, which affected federal workers who reside in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs and throughout the state.

Terry McAuliffe Calls Out Ken Cuccinelli's Rabid Homophobia in Last Days of Virginia Governor Race

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli's abysmal and hateful position on gay people and gay rights were brought up by opponent Terry McAuliffe in a debate last week at Virginia Tech, the Washington Blade reports:

McAuliffe pointed out his Republican rival once described gay Virginians as “soulless human beings” in response to a question during an Oct. 24 debate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg that Roanoke television station WDBJ sponsored. 

“Who talks like that,” McAuliffe said. “There’s somebody in this audience who might be gay or has a friend who’s gay. You cannot grow and diversify our economy with this mean-spirited language.” 

McAuliffe, who has publicly backed marriage rights for same-sex couples alongside the two other Democratic candidates for statewide office, further sought to differentiate himself from Cuccinelli during a campaign rally at Herndon Middle School on Monday at which former President Clinton spoke. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner; Congressman Gerry Connolly and state Del. Charniele Herring (D-Alexandria), who chairs the Democratic Party of Virginia, also addressed those who attended the event. 

“We must be a state where gay Virginians are treated equally,” McAuliffe said.

Recent polls show McAuliffe leading by a 51-39 percent margin.

Virginia Set To Elect A Democrat As Governor, GOP Voter Suppression Efforts Undone

There’s an air of quiet panic surrounding Ken Cuccinelli. OK, it’s not that quiet but it’s there. You would think that it would all be coming from his failing campaign and from Cuccinelli himself but you’d be wrong. Next month’s election will be (mostly unfairly) taken as a bellwether concerning the GOP engineered shutdown. But the more concerning issue is the midterms and 2016.

First, we’ll address the (mostly unfair) bellwether aspect. As with any election taking place during a national crisis, Cuccinelli’s impending loss will be blamed on the shutdown. While it is true the shutdown will influence the election, Cuccinelli has been significantly behind in the polls for months. This (mostly unfair) bellwether status will be coming from liberals as well. They will, without doubt, claim that the GOP blowing this election is a sign that America is tired of their insane political behavior.

The reasons that Cuccinelli is losing are legion: he’s a religious fanatic that wants to ban blow jobs. His running mate is a lunatic. Etc. etc. etc. But the loss of the Virginia governorship has far wider implications for the GOP. And this is where the fear comes in.

No Cuccinelli, no voter suppression

Virginia is still a swing state. That makes it vital to any Republican strategy for winning the White House. And the most vital aspect of that strategy? Voter suppression.  Without Cuccinelli in place to push and sign off on whatever ridiculous scheme the GOP comes up with next, voter suppression efforts fail. No voter suppression? Virginia lurches to the left in elections.

It is indisputable that voter suppression needs to be the Republican Party’s national strategy. Even after their 2012 drubbing, the right loudly and proudly announced that they were going to pursue the same strategy that just lost them the election. They were going to court the angry old white man vote. Blacks, Latinos, women, the LGBT community, Asians, etc. could all go screw themselves. These are all constituencies that are growing in size or influence or both. Liberals stared in disbelief and smiled at the pronouncement, knowing it was doomed in the (not so) long run. Republicans cheered because they’re insane. and then they nominated Ken “No Blow Jobs” Cuccinelli to run for governor.

Party purity versus cold, hard reality

In 2010, the GOP lost several Senate elections because they picked an unelectable loony to run. Christine O’Donnell comes to mind as does Sharron Angle. Ken Cuccinelli’s candidacy is following the same pattern. The Tea Party faithful pick a raving madman to keep ‘Murika pure. Madman opens mouth. The general public actually learns what madman stands for. Public vomits on self, votes for madman’s opponent.

I’m not a witch. I’m also not electable.

This hurt but not as much as losing Virginia will. If (when) Cuccinelli loses, the chances of Virginia voting Red in 2016 evaporate. Without Virginia, the road to the White House becomes significantly more treacherous. This is why the Republican Party is in middle of a full-fledged civil war. Sadly, the rest of us are caught in the crossfire. In the meantime, the Tea Party fanatics would rather go down with the ship than share a life raft with a liberal or, god forbid, a moderate. The establishment GOP is trying to figure out who they’re more afraid of: their racist drunk-on-Tea base or their corporate masters. The old guard of the right is thoroughly disgusted with the imbeciles of the suicide caucus and wishes they had never signed that bargain with the devil.

The loss of Virginia will only throw gas on that little bonfire of the insanities. That’s a very good thing. Sooner or later, the Tea Party will realize that their districts are so safe that they can forgo any attachment to the Republican Party. Once the split occurs, the Tea Party will attract of the frenzied hate on the right. The GOP will move back to the center where normal people can disagree without one side screaming for secession. The Tea Party will be reduced to an ultra localized regional party that everyone can mostly ignore.

Maybe they can elect Ken Cuccinelli and his revulsion of oral and anal sex. He can be their Minister of Morality.

Duggars to campaign for anti-gay Va. gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli

A busload of reality television stars – all from the same family – will cruise through Virginia to support anti-gay Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli.

The Duggar family from the TLC series “19 Kids and Counting” is planning a three-day bus tour starting Monday.

The Duggars will make stops in Lynchburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Fredericksburg and Woodbridge in support of Cuccinelli, the father of seven.

During seven years as a state senator and in the past four year as Virginia’s attorney general, Cuccinelli has endorsed Virginia’s anti-gay marriage legislation and has advocated for a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

In a 2009 op-ed for the The Virginian Pilot, Cuccinelli wrote, “Homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong.”

He also opposed a state bill that allowed private companies to voluntarily provide health insurance benefits to employees’ domestic partners, warning it might “encourage this type of behavior.”

Cuccinelli also waged a failed campaign to reinstate Virginia’s “crimes against nature” sodomy law that bans oral and anal sex among all consenting adults.

 

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider his appeal.

The Duggar tour is sponsored by Family Research Council Action. The executive director of the conservative advocacy group is 25-year-old Josh Duggar, the oldest of the 19 Duggar children.

Cucccinelli's Sodomy Ban Gets a Smackdown from SCOTUS!

Ken Cuccinelli, the VA Republican running for governor, is obsessed with outlawing sodomy and oral sex in his state. The Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws in 2003. But — driven by his conservative ideology — Cuccinelli refuses to let his dream die. His efforts reached a dead end on Monday, when the Supreme Court basically told the VA Republican to go f**k himself.

SCOTUS brings the hammer down on the VA Republican’s sodomy obsession.

In March, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the state using anti-sodomy laws to prosecute cases involving minors. But Cuccinelli wants the law exempted from their 2003 ruling. He appealed to the Supreme Court, but they rejected the case on Monday. Thus ends Cuccinelli’s quest to outlaw oral sex and sodomy.

Ken Cuccinelli’s Law Would Outlaw Sodomy And Oral Sex Among Consenting Adults.

The VA Republican’s now-invalid law is known as the “Crimes Against Nature Act.” Here’s the part that outlaws oral sex and sodomy between consenting adults:

“If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.”

Cuccinelli claims his law only applies to minors. But the wording clearly applies to all people engaging in oral or anal sex, including adults. The VA Republican unveiled a website for this law in July, and admitted he planned to put it back on the books. Virginia’s legislature had a chance to change the law and conform to SCOTUS’ 2003 ruling, but Cuccinelli blocked those changes. He clearly wanted to keep the law intact, in hopes of one day arresting consenting couples, especially same-sex couples. Was Cuccinelli trying to pull a fast one on the court system, and fool them into reinstating anti-sodomy laws across the nation? If so, his ploy didn’t work.

A Setback For The VA Republican’s bid for governor.

Ken Cuccinelli isn’t having a very good October. On top of having his dreams of a world without oral and anal sex stolen from him, he’s under fire for his close relationship with GOP Senator Ted Cruz, who helped instigate the unpopular government shutdown. He’s also in trouble because of a recent ad from his Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe, which provides damning evidence of Cuccinelli’s role in shutting down the government. This unfortunate series of events mean bad news for the VA Republican’s political aspirations. Americans do not approve of the shutdown, like delusional Republicans thought they would. In fact, Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP. This, combined with the Supreme Court’s decision, puts Virginia more in play for Democrats than ever before.

But which ever direction the governor’s race goes, at least consenting adults in Virginia won’t have to worry about Republicans regulating what they do in their own bedrooms.

Cuccinelli: References To My Anti-LGBT Record Are Unfounded ‘Personal Attacks’

After compiling a record of votes and comments that easily make him among the most virulently anti-LGBT elected officials in the country, Virginia Attorney Ken Cuccinelli II (R) sought to minimize his record in a gubernatorial debate on Wednesday. But his claims fly in the face of his 11-year political career.

Facing off against Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, Cuccinelli attempted to downplay social issues, saying, “Look, I believe– I have some basic beliefs that are fundamental to me. But overwhelming proportion of my time as attorney general has been spent moving Virginia forward economically and protecting liberty and our constitution.” But as attorney general, he has consistently opposed liberty and the constitutional protections for LGBT Virginians, demanding that public colleges and universities rescind non-discrimination policies and making a campaign issue his attempt to revive an anti-sodomy law he refused to bring into compliance with the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas ruling.

When asked about LGBT issues, McAuliffe reiterated his full support for marriage equality and employment non-discrimination protections. He noted that, as governor, he would sign a marriage equality bill if one got to his desk, which he noted was not currently possible due to the state’s marriage inequality amendment (which Cuccinelli co-sponsored). Cuccinelli wrongly responded: “It actually doesn’t happen in the form of a bill. It’s a constitutional amendment, so it never comes to the governor… it will never come to the desk of a Virginia governor.” While the governor of Virginia does not have any a formal role in the constitutional amendment process, in the event that the state amendment is ruled invalid under the federal constitution, a marriage equality bill could certainly follow.

Cuccinelli attempted to deny his own prior anti-LGBT comments — even though he had stood by them in his first debate against McAuliffe in July. In both debates, McAuliffe highlighted a 2008 speech Cuccinelli made to the anti-gay Virginia Family Foundation in which he had opined, “When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.”

Asked in the July debate whether he stilled believed LGBT people to be “soulless” and “self-destructive,” Cuccinelli told moderator Judy Woodruff, “My personal beliefs about the personal challenges of homosexuality haven’t changed.” But as McAuliffe on Wednesday again lambasted Cuccinelli for that view — and for jeopardizing the Virginia jobs when his pro-discrimination efforts nearly caused Northrup Grumman to relocate its headquarters — this time, Cuccinelli dissembled. Calling them “personal attacks,” Cuccinelli announced, “The Northrop Grumman charge is false. The soulless comment is offensively false.”

Cuccinelli then warned that McAuliffe might follow the lead of the U.S. Department of Justice, two Governors of California, and the Attorneys General of Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and other states in refusing to defend marriage inequality provisions they believe to be in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution:

CUCCINELLI: I would note that my opponent appears poised, based on some of his comments — during the campaign, to not defend our state constitution. Now look, as attorney general, I’ve defended laws whether I like them or not. And as pointed out by a former Democrat attorney general, Tony Troy, a pattern for Terry, though, that’s been emerging is that he seems to think he gets to decide which laws and which parts of the Virginia Constitution that you’re obligated to defend as the Virginia governor.

The oath of office for the governor of Virginia — and the one Cuccinelli took in 2010 as AG — includes a solemn vows first to “support the constitution of the United States” and second to support “the constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia.” Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution makes clear that the federal constitution takes precedence over state constitutions — so when the two are in conflict, it is absolutely up to the governor and attorney general to make that decision.

Moreover, Cuccinelli himself has refused to defend laws that he deems unconstitutional. Indeed earlier this month, his spokesman noted, “If the attorney general’s analysis shows that a law is unconstitutional, he has a legal obligation to not defend it.” Indeed in 2009, Cuccinelli himself said in a debate, “I will not defend what I, in my judgment, deem to be an unconstitutional law.” “If I determine it not to be constitutional,” he explained then, “I will not defend it. My first obligation is to the Constitution and the people of Virginia.”

Supreme Court Denies Request From Virginia's Ken Cuccinelli To Stay Ruling On Sodomy Law

Previously, this past March, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond issued a ruling that declared the state of Virginia's Crimes Against Nature Law to be unconstitutional, citing the decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 during Lawrence v. Texas. The state's blatantly anti-gay attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, took it upon himself to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court has yet to decide whether it will hear the appeal. In the meantime, however, Cuccinelli submitted a request for a stay, postponing the Fourth Circuit Court's decision until after the appeal. 

This past Friday, according to the Washington Blade, Chief Justice John Roberts, acting on behalf of the entire court, denied Cuccinelli's request. The Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision of whether or not to hear the case either later this year or in early 2014. Until then, Virginia's "Crimes Against Nature Law" will remain un-enforcable. 

The Fourth Circuit Court's decision comes after attorneys attempted to place William Scott MacDonald, a 47-year-old man, behind bars for soliciting oral sex from a 17-year-old girl. Since no sexual acts actually took place, the state attempted to use its "Crimes Against Nature Law" to do the job. Cuccinelli and others argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision during Lawrence v. Texas does not apply in cases where one of the (potential) participants is a minor and the other is an adult. The Fourth Circuit Court disagreed, saying that "while the Lawrence decision prohibited Virginia from applying the sodomy law in cases of consensual sex with someone between 15 and 18, it did not prevent the state legislature from enacting laws banning all sex between adults and people in that age range."

A Grandmother on -- Gasp -- Sodomy

Never in my 79 years, nearly 59 of them married to the only man I have ever known, did I imagine being able to say -- much less write -- this:

I am guilty of sodomy.

For that matter, so is my husband, pleasurably so. (Our youngest would have me use more graphic terms; they apply, but I am a 'reticent' white-haired grandmother, moderate in my speech, sometimes.)

We live in Virginia, home base for all our married -- as well as courting -- years. And in Virginia, the state's anti-sodomy law is again front and center. The law describes sodomy as "crimes against nature," which include all oral as well as anal sex, even between consenting adults, and is to be prosecuted as a felony. In other words, ordinary human behavior, criminalized.

Even though the statute is still on the books, as are anti-sodomy laws in fourteen states, it has effectively been unenforceable since 2003. That year, in Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court held that "statutes criminalizing private acts of consensual sodomy between adults are inconsistent with the protections of liberty" in the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and thus unconstitutional.

In mid-March this year, responding to a legal challenge, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (located in Richmond) specifically invalidated Virginia's law prohibiting sodomy. The challenge involved a 47-year-old man accused under the anti-sodomy law of criminal solicitation of a minor for oral sex who contended that the "crimes against nature" statute is illegal.

Having the statute invalidated by the Appeals Court could easily have been have been the end of the matter. But it's Virginia. And it's an election year. In Virginia, it's always an election year: federal, even years; state and local, odd (in more than one sense). Because Virginia is a purple state with a tight, bellwether gubernatorial election gaining momentum, all eyes are upon us. So, the present Attorney General and Republican candidate for governor, Ken Cuccinelli, has appealed the Fourth Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court and requested a stay of the ruling pending the appeal. The Chief Justice has asked the other side for a response by next Monday. We shall see.

Target In Hot Water Again After Donating $50K To PAC Supporting Anti-Gay Ken Cuccinelli

Many probably still remember the ensuing controversy when it was revealed in 2010 that Target Corporation donated $150,000 to a PAC that supported homophobic Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. The company subsequently revised its corporate giving policies, and even launched a series of Gay Pride shirts in an attempt to restore its gay-friendly reputation. Unfortunately, it looks as though the company will have to conduct more damage-control, since Right Wing Watch is reporting that the company "contributed $50,000 to the Republican Governors Association, which so far this year has spent nearly $3 million on behalf of [Ken] Cuccinelli’s gubernatorial campaign." Towleroad readers may remember Cuccinelli as the homophobic attorney general from Virginia with an extensive history of homophobic remarks, and who wishes to reinstate a "Crimes Against Nature Law" in the state.

It is worth noting that Target Corp. also made the same donation to the Democratic Governors Association, which is throwing its weight behind Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe. Right Wing Watch referred to the move as "equal opportunity influence-buy[ing]." Nevertheless, this indirect support of such a fiercely anti-gay candidate does call into question a previous promise by CEO Gregg Steinhafel to promote “a dialogue focused on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including GLBT issues," or a statement made last year by the company that it is “100 percent committed to the goal of families being respected in all communities including parents who happen to be LGBT."

This year, Target Corp. scored a perfect 100 on the HRC's Corporate Equality Index, a grade that will almost certainly suffer as a result of this donation. Thus far, the retail giant has yet to release a statement or comment addressing this most recent controversial donation.

Ken Cuccinelli made a laughing stock on The View

Cuccinelli: My ‘Beliefs About The Personal Challenge Of Homosexuality Haven’t Changed’

Usually when you think of religious anti-gay bigots, the image of an older person, say someone in their 60′s, 70′s or 80′s, comes to mind. Think, the late Jerry Falwell or octogenarian Pat Robertson, or even Maggie Gallagher, who’s 52. And given that America’s Catholics today support same-sex marriage at a higher rate than the rest of America — the majority of America, about 55 percent, already support marriage equality — you wouldn’t necessarily expect a 44-year old east coast Catholic to be as a big an anti-gay bigot as Ken Cuccinelli is. And you’d be wrong.

Ken Cuccinelli, who is running for governor of Virginia against Democrat Terry McAuliffe, on Saturday morning told voters that he is standing his ground when it comes to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. And that ground in the recent past has included comments that gay people have no souls, are self-destructive, and that “homosexual acts” are “intrinsically wrong.”

 

The radical right-wing Republican attorney general of Virginia was asked Saturday morning by PBS’ Judy Woodruff at the Virginia Bar Association gubernatorial debate if he still believes “same-sex acts are against nature and are harmful to society,” as he said a few years ago.

Cuccinelli’s response was straightforward:

“My personal beliefs about the personal challenge of homosexuality haven’t changed.”

But the married 44-year old Roman Catholic and father of seven didn’t expand on what “the personal challenge of homosexuality” actually is, leaving many, at least on Twitter, to wonder — and leaving Cuccinelli the laughing stock of the week.

Cuccinelli is so anti-gay that among his first acts upon taking office in 2010 was — literally unprovoked and out of nowhere — writing the University of Virginia Board of Governors to tell them that they did not have the constitutional authority to protect LGBT people from discrimination.

In the past, as a state senator running for AG in 2009, Cuccinelli said:

“My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. … They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.”

And in 2008 Cuccinelli, told the Virginia Family Foundation that when “you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.”

Watch (apologies — audio very low):

GOP Virginia gubernatorial nominee Cuccinelli’s ongoing effort to ban BJs

Someone clearly needs a hug.  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, the current state attorney general, is running for governor on a platform of banning oral and anal sex between adults. Cuccinelli says such laws are necessary in order to stop child predators from sexually assaulting children.

Now, you might ask, why does Ken Cuccinelli need to make it illegal for adult men and women to perform oral sex on each other in the privacy of their own bedrooms in order to protect children?

Answer: Because Republicans in the state legislature, the Virginia General Assembly, have refused for ten years to pass a law protecting kids in the state.

Here’s the deal. In 2003, the US Supreme Court struck down state anti-sodomy laws (laws that made oral and anal sex between consenting adults illegal), which were mostly being used against gay couples.  In Virginia, anti-sodomy laws were also being used, among other things, against child molesters.  But those laws were struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court, a good ten years ago.  So for the past ten years, what did the Virginia General Assembly, which was mostly controlled by Republicans the past decade, do to ensure that the rape of children was again against the law in Virginia?

Nothing.

In the decade since Lawrence v. Texas struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law, the Virginia General Assembly – which has been under GOP control collectively for 18 years, and Democratic control for 4 (if you add the state House and Senate together) – just never bothered to figure out if there was another way to make it illegal for grown men to rape small children, other than banning consulting adults from performing oral sex on each other in their own bedrooms.

So, the law was sat struck down, and now people like Cuccinelli, rather than simply asking the Republicans who currently control the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate to pass a law, you know, making it illegal to have sex with children, wants to instead make it illegal again for adults to have sex with each other.

Next on the Cuccinelli chopping block?

And keep in mind: Cuccinelli is himself the attorney general of Virginia. The top law enforcement official. He, if anyone, was the lead person in the state responsible for making sure that children are protected from sexual predators.  What did Ken Cuccinelli do to get his own party to pass a law specifically protecting children from rape? 

Nothing.

What’s going on here is that the Virginia Republican party, like the national GOP, is so hell-bent on hating gays – Cuccinelli has led his own personal jihad against gays for years – and hell-bent on hating sex generally, that they didn’t want to pass a new sodomy law that didn’t ban oral sex between consenting adults.

Had the Virginia GOP passed a law banning sex with children, they’d be tacitly saying that sex between adults, including gay adults, was okay.  And the Virginia Republican party is so uptight, so intolerant, and so discriminatory, that they couldn’t bring themselves to pass a law banning child-rape, lest the absence of language banning consensual sex between adults gave a silent nod to the notion that it’s okay for adults, straight and gay, to have sex, be it oral or any other kind.

So, as a result, the Republican party of Virginia is on a jihad to ban all BJs in the state, straight and gay.

Welcome to today’s Republican party.

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Virginia Gov. Candidate Cuccinelli Asks Supreme Court to Revive Ban on Oral, Anal Sex

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the GOP's nominee for governor, filed an appeal on Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to revive the state's law banning oral and anal sex. In a statement, Cuccinelli claimed that the law, which the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled unconstitutional earlier this year, is "an important tool that prosecutors use to put child molesters in jail." Cuccinelli warned that the appeals court's decision to strike down the statute "threatens to undo convictions of child predators that were obtained under this law" since 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that laws criminalizing oral and anal sex—sometimes referred to as sodomy bans—are unconstitutional.

As the Huffington Post reported:

Cuccinelli wants the court to reconsider a March 2013 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit striking down the state's "crimes against nature" statute. The 4th Circuit ruled that the law did not pass muster in light of the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, which struck down the latter state's anti-sodomy law as an unconstitutional criminalization of Americans' sexual conduct. The Virginia law, however, remained on the books.

The 4th Circuit ruled in favor of William Scott McDonald, who was convicted in 2005 at age 47 under the Virginia statute for soliciting a 17-year-old girl to commit sodomy. That law broadly makes oral and anal sex a Class 6 felony. While such laws historically targeted gay men, they have also been used against heterosexual activity.

The three-judge panel ruled that an unconstitutional law could not be used to convict McDonald. It added that the Virginia Legislature could pass another law to criminalize sexual conduct specifically between a minor and an adult. The Lawrence ruling applied only to consensual adult conduct.

Virginia has a notably low age of consent, which means, in effect, that vaginal sex between a 47-year-old and a 17-year-old is legal, but oral and anal sex between the same two people is not. Cuccinelli claims he will only use the sodomy law to bring cases involving minors or sexual assault, and argues that Virginians need not worry about him prosecuting "consenting adults," because the part of the law that would enable him to do so was defanged by the Supreme Court's Lawrence decision. But in 2004, when a bipartisan group of state Senators was trying to fix the sodomy law so that it would only apply to cases involving minors and non-consensual sex, Cuccinelli, then a state Senator, blocked the effort. And in 2009, as my colleague Andy Kroll has noted, Cuccinelli made clear that he objected to oral and anal sex (at least between gay people) on principle, telling the Virginian-Pilot, "My view is that homosexual acts—not homosexuality, but homosexual acts—are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law-based country it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that...They don't comport with natural law."