From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/ken-cuccinelli-oral-sex_b_3639244.html
Michelangelo Signorile
07/23/2013
Sherri Shepherd of ABC’s “The View’” has not exactly been the most ardent champion of gay rights in the past, having supported Proposition 8 in 2008. But yesterday on the show she commented that if Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli — who is intent on reinstating Virginia’s Crimes Against Nature law — really thinks oral sex (between any two people) is the same as gay sex, then she, a self-professed evangelical Christian, “is gayer than a gay two-dollar bill.”
Is this really where the GOP is going in 2013, taking on straight sex too? And that raises yet another question: Is it time for a reporter to ask Cuccinelli, currently the Virginia attorney general, if he’s ever engaged in cunnilingus or had anyone go down on him? Is American politics truly headed in that direction as the GOP defies political analysts as well as the beliefs and practices of the vast majority of Americans and continues to pander to extremists within in its base?
In 2012, we saw two political candidates who could not have been more starkly different on gay rights and some predicted it was the last time we’d see it. President Obama supported marriage equality, while Mitt Romney supported a constitutional ban on gay marriage. When Romney lost, and as polls showed majority support in the country for gay marriage, political analysts, pundits and even the Republican National Committee chair himself, Reince Preibus, predicted GOP candidates would need to change the tone on gay rights. After the Supreme Court’s gay marriage rulings last month, the predictions only continued, with some even saying that momentum in the Republican Party is moving toward changing with the times.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case despite three GOP senators coming out for marriage equality. After potential presidential contender Rick Perry’s recent railing against the Boy Scouts, and possible presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul’s warning that gay marriage could lead to marriage with “non-humans,” we now have Cuccinelli doubling down in a debate over the weekend on his 2009 comments that homosexuality is “harmful” and “soulless.” More than that, just when you thought there couldn’t be two opponents in a race as vastly different on gay issues as Romney and Obama, the race in Virginia is simply incredible.
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See Also:
Raw Story: Even Barbara Walters is mystified by the GOP candidate who wants to outlaw oral sex in Virginia
Think Progress: Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Campaigns On Effort To Restore Ban On Oral Sex
Salon: Ken Cuccinelli: Keeping the war on sodomy alive!
