Cuccinelli is Gay Bashing Yet Again

Virginia's - in my view - severely psychologically disturbed Attorney General, Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinelli, is once again jumping on the gay bashing band wagon and attacking the concept that same sex couples can be good, loving and stable parents. The irony to me is that Virginia's two biggest gay haters - Cuccinelli and Bob Marshall - both profess to be devout Roman Catholics. Their concern for children is selective at best. Has either one of them uttered a single word demanding an accounting from the Church hierarchy or used their powers to seek potential prosecution of those guilty of criminal conspiracy to cover up crimes against children? Of course not. They are utter and complete hypocrites and, in the case, of Cuccinelli, his anti-gay hysteria is just a bit too extreme and suggests to me that he's a self-loathing closet case like Robert Knight and other professional Christians who doth protest too much. Indeed, at last year's Equality Virginia Commonwealth Dinner (the boyfriend and I will be at tomorrow's event in Richmond) I was told by someone that Cuccinelli has played for the LGBT team in the past. I never could never definitively substantiate the claim, but if any readers out there have proof, please bring it on. This man is a menace and it would be oh so sweet to take him down. Here are highlights from the Washington Post on Cuccinelli's latest effort to denigrate LGBT Virginians:
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has advised a state board that it cannot impose new regulations that some argue would for the first time allow gay couples to adopt children in Virginia.
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Cuccinelli’s office said in a memo dated Tuesday that the proposal to be considered by the State Board of Social Services as early as next week “does not comport with applicable state law and public policy.”
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“Therefore the State Board lacks the authority to adopt this proposed language,’’ wrote Allen Wilson, senior assistant attorney general. Cuccinelli’s position reverses one of his predecessor, William C. Mims, a former Republican legislator and now a Virginia Supreme Court justice.
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Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), who has been lobbying Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) to do what he can to kill the proposal because he does not think it is healthy for gay couples to raise children, said he was pleased by the advice.
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“It was a correct decision in my judgment,’’ he said. “The General Assembly has not made sexual orientation a protected class. This will be welcome news to a lot of faith- based adoption agencies.”
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His memo at this stage is advice, and clients get to say one way or another whether they accept the counsel,’’ said Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, general counsel to Equality Virginia and a former chief deputy attorney general. “He was wrong when he said the state college boards of visitors did not have the authority to implement equal-opportunity policies. He’s equally wrong here.”
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Several gay-rights organizations held news conferences in Northern Virginia and Richmond on Wednesday to lobby McDonnell to eliminate discrimination in the adoption process.
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In Cuccinelli's self-loathing view, Virginia's "public policy" should be to denigrate and stigmatize LGBT citizens for the failure to embrace the religious views of Christianists who want to establish a theocracy. Oh, and to his supporters who say he can't possibly be gay because he's married with a gaggle of children, I'd suggest they re-read the name of this blog.