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Speak Out: Ken Cuccinelli In Your Bedroom

Is candidate's defense of sodomy ban aimed at child predators or you?

Welcome back to the sodomy debate — with a twist! Regardless of what you think may be allowed in your bedroom, state law still bans sodomy.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli says the law targets child predators. Democrat Terry McAulliffe says the law should be changed to exempt consenting adults and that Cuccinelli’s defense of the status quo is due to the Republican’s persecution of gays and lesbians.

Cuccinelli, the state’s attorney general, is fighting an appeals court ruling this spring that the state law violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The same justification was used in a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a Texas anti-sodomy law.

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The Washington Post noted this week that Cuccinelli opposed changes to the Virginia law in 2004 that would have protected consenting adults from prosecution. In a 2009 speech, Cuccinelli said, “homosexual acts are wrong and should not be accommodated in government policy.”


Should the state’s ban on sodomy include consenting adults? Tell us in the comments!

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