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Cuccinelli Not Coming Clean on Sodomy

04.05.13 | 3:57 am

State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax County, gestures as he challenges a ruling by Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine during the Senate Session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday April 6, 2005. Cuccinelli attempted a procedu... State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax County, gestures as he challenges a ruling by Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine during the Senate Session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday April 6, 2005. Cuccinelli attempted a procedural maneuver in an attempt to strip Sen. Russell Potts of his committee assignments for his independent Republican bid for governor. MORE LESS

After interceding to try to save the state’s anti-sodomy law earlier this week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said his push had nothing to do with homosexuality. But back in 2009 he explained that “homosexual acts” are wrong, violate “natural law” and “should not be accommodated in government policy.”

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