Ken Cuccinelli's Homophobia - The Face of Bigotry

Queerty has a good post up on Ken "I'm a Bigot" Cuccinelli that puts a strong focus on just how extreme a Christianist the GOP candidate for Attorney General is once looks behind his carefully scripted camapaign ads. If the prospect of Taliban Bob McDonnell as Governor is scrary, the thought of Cuccinnelli as Attorney General is absolutely terrifying and ought to be making all but the extreme base of the GOP have difficulty sleeping at night. The fact that Cuccinelli won the nomination for the AG slot on the ticket demonstrates just how out of the mainstream the Republican Party of Virginia has become. Unfortunately, the MSM - which in my view is for the most part (other than the Washington Post) increasingly lazy and worthless in terms of doing anything but parroting candidates' talking points - has done little to expose the disingenuousness of both McDonnell's and Cuccinelli's campaigns and has allowed them to commit a fraud on the voting public. Here are some highlights from Queerty:

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Virginia's Attorney General hopeful Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican facing off against Steve Shannon, is the type of social conservative you people love! He wants to give legal rights to fetuses at conception and favors restrictions that would all but shutter many abortion clinics. Oh, and he doesn't want any of you homos pleasuring yourselves.

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It's not that gay people are abhorrent, says Cuccinelli. Just their sex lives: "My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. . .

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His comments, sadly, are typical. But we're sort of loving what's happened since those remarks went public: A newspaper of record has gone, uh, on the record identifying Cuccinelli's statements sans bullshit, cherry coating, and fluff as this: bigotry.

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Kudos to the Washington Post, for this: "Putting aside what Mr. Cuccinelli has to say about homosexuals when he's not trying so hard to be polite, let's call his comments what they are: bigotry. Bigotry is as pernicious today, applied to homosexuals, as it was a century ago or less, when immigrants and minorities were its main victims. And it is just as familiar. Appeals to 'natural law' and 'intrinsic' rights and wrongs were the usual cliches deployed to justify the old-time religion of hatred then directed at African Americans, Jews, Italians, Irish and other immigrants."
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We want more of this. More branding of such rhetoric not as "religious beliefs" or "conservative values," but as "hate speech" and "bigotry." We're no longer talking about "opposing viewpoints"; this is a matter of right and wrong.