Cuccinelli: Claims References To His Anti-LGBT Record Are "Unfounded Personal Attacks"

If anyone is guilty of personal attacks it is Ken Cuccinelli who has made a career out of maligning and denigrating gay Virginians.  The man has worked relentlessly to keep us and our families third or fourth class citizens devoid of even the most basic employment non-discrimination protections.  Yet Cuccinelli is whining that Terry McAuliffe's references to Cuccinelli's extreme anti-gay agenda are "unfounded personal attacks."  The man is either a pathological liar or truly living in a fantasy world if he thinks his past actions aren't relevant in this years gubernatorial election.  Think Progress looks at this whining bullshit from Cuccinelli.  Here are highlights:

After compiling a record of votes and comments that easily make him among the most virulently anti-LGBT elected officials in the country, Virginia Attorney Ken Cuccinelli II (R) sought to minimize his record in a gubernatorial debate on Wednesday. But his claims fly in the face of his 11-year political career.

Cuccinelli attempted to downplay social issues, saying, “Look, I believe– I have some basic beliefs that are fundamental to me. But overwhelming proportion of my time as attorney general has been spent moving Virginia forward economically and protecting liberty and our constitution.” But as attorney general, he has consistently opposed liberty and the constitutional protections for LGBT Virginians, demanding that public colleges and universities rescind non-discrimination policies and making a campaign issue his attempt to revive an anti-sodomy law he refused to bring into compliance with the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas ruling. When asked about LGBT issues, McAuliffe reiterated his full support for marriage equality and employment non-discrimination protections. 

Cuccinelli attempted to deny his own prior anti-LGBT comments — even though he had stood by them in his first debate against McAuliffe in July. In both debates, McAuliffe highlighted a 2008 speech Cuccinelli made to the anti-gay Virginia Family Foundation in which he had opined, “When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.” 

Asked in the July debate whether he stilled believed LGBT people to be “soulless” and “self-destructive,” Cuccinelli told moderator Judy Woodruff, “My personal beliefs about the personal challenges of homosexuality haven’t changed.”

Calling them “personal attacks,” Cuccinelli announced, “The Northrop Grumman charge is false. The soulless comment is offensively false.”  

There's more to the piece, but you get the point.  Cuccinelli is an anti-gay extremist.