Jon Stewart Inspects Ken Cuccinelli's Failed Attempt to Retain Virginia's Sodomy Law

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Virginia Attorney General and would be governor Ken Cuccinelli is just a tad too hysterical when it comes to the issue of sodomy - even when it doesn't involve gay sex.  The man is a nutcase and, in my view, needs to be in a mental institution or at a minimum, needs some other form of serious mental health intervention.   Thankfully, Kookinelli's obsession with sodomy, abortion and contraception is getting national publicity but not of a positive nature as The Daily Show goes after Cooch big time in the video clip above.    It is also interesting that even the one judge on the 4th Circuit who would have upheld the state prosecution under the Virginia sodomy law seems to have had second thoughts as noted in the Washington Blade:

In an action that surprised some court observers, the order says none of the court’s judges requested a poll among themselves to determine which, if any of them, favored Cuccinelli’s request for an en banc rehearing of the sodomy case by the court’s 15 active judges and one senior judge.

Under court rules, if no judge calls for a poll or vote on the issue, the petition for a rehearing is automatically denied in what, in effect, becomes a unanimous decision.

Among the judges that chose not to approve a rehearing was Judge Albert Diaz, who wrote the dissent in the three-judge panel’s 2-1 ruling declaring Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” statute unconstitutional. The statute classifies sodomy between consenting adults, gay or straight, as a crime.

“It’s a pretty resounding rejection,” said Claire Gastanaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, which filed a friend of the court brief urging the three-judge panel to overturn the state sodomy law. “There really wasn’t any interest in doing this at all by anybody.”

Caroline Gibson, Cuccinelli’s deputy communications director, didn’t respond to a question from the Blade about whether Cuccinelli plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, which would be the last remaining step to challenge the appeals court ruling overturning the sodomy law.

As previously noted, I suspect that Cuccinelli will appeal.  The man and his backers at The Family Foundation are just that crazy and will never cease in their attempts to impose their beliefs on all Virginians.  Meanwhile, Terry McAuliffe must be smiling like the Cheshire Cat.