Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli once suggested as a state senator that laws criminalizing extramarital sex “ought to stay on the books,” Politico reported Tuesday.
“Frankly it wouldn’t hurt to enforce them more,” Cuccinelli is quoted saying in Richmond’s Style Weekly magazine in 2008.
Cuccinelli was paraphrased as comparing adultery to “perjury inasmuch as the occasional prosecution or two would get people thinking twice.”
Cuccinelli’s spokesman Anna Nix told Politico the question of adultery was not a focus of the 2013 campaign.
“Ken Cuccinelli is someone who believes in and supports the institution of marriage,” Nix said. “The campaign for the governorship in Virginia is about the concerns of voters, which include first and foremost creating jobs and growing the economy.”
