Ken Cuccinelli Backed Anti-Adultery Laws - Does He Still?

Frighteningly, most Virginians do not seem to grasp the full extent of Ken Cuccinelli's religious extremism and desire to police their bedrooms and personal lives.   In this effort, he is furthering the agenda of The Family Foundation which seeks a far right Christian theocracy in Virginia and which would inflict its fear and hate based religious views on all citizens.  In addition to wanting to continue to make oral and anal sex - even between married couples - a felony ( a good article can be found here), Kookinelli has in the past supported enforcing the anti-adultery law still on the books in Virginia.  Have an affair, be charged, prosecuted and go to jail.  That's the agenda of Kookinelli and most assuredly the utterly insane GOP Lt. Governor candidate "Bishop" Jackson.  Politico looks at Cuccinelli's past support for criminally prosecuting adulterers.  Here are highlights:

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli once suggested that society would benefit from enforcing anti-adultery laws, according to a report dating to the Republican’s days as a state senator.  Speaking to Richmond’s Style Weekly magazine back in 2008, Cuccinelli defended laws criminalizing extramarital sex, saying that such restrictions “ought to stay on the books.”

“Frankly it wouldn’t hurt to enforce them more,” Cuccinelli is quoted saying. The magazine paraphrased Cuccinelli drawing a comparison to “perjury inasmuch as the occasional prosecution or two would get people thinking twice.”

Cuccinelli went on to be elected attorney general of Virginia the following year and he is now the GOP nominee for governor. At issue in the race is his history of hardline social conservative stances, which Cuccinelli has de-emphasized in the current campaign in favor of economic issues.

In response to an email from POLITICO, Cuccinelli spokeswoman Anna Nix said the question of adultery was not a major issue in the 2013 election.

“Ken Cuccinelli is someone who believes in and supports the institution of marriage. The campaign for the governorship in Virginia is about the concerns of voters, which include first and foremost creating jobs and growing the economy,” Nix said.

Note how Cuccinelli merely dodged the issue and did not disavow his past positions.  The man is insane and dangerous.  He needs to be defeated in November.