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Related: About this forumKen Cuccinelli's Running Mate Compared Planned Parenthood to KKK, Said LGBT Minds Are Perverted
Ken Cuccinelli's Running Mate Compared Planned Parenthood to KKK, Said LGBT Minds Are PervertedVirginia Republicans picked the man they want to be Attorney General Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli's lieutenant governor over the weekend. And the extremely conservative bishop has got quite a history for the state's Democrats to sink their teeth into.
Bishop E.W. Jackson won the nomination Saturday, in what the Richmond Times Dispatch called "a stunning upset."
After his nomination, Politico picked up on comments Jackson made in a YouTube video last fall, comparing Planned Parenthood to the KKK:
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Jackson is also not a fan of gay and lesbian people. From an interview with Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality and pastor John Kirkwood, reported on by Right Wing Watch:"Their minds are perverted, theyre frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally and they see everything through the lens of homosexuality. When they talk about love theyre not talking about love, theyre talking about homosexual sex. So they cant see clearly. Jesus said when the eye is dark the body is full of darkness. Let me come back to this whole issue of their using the black community because here again some of the most vicious attacks ever leveled against any black conservative or black Christian for that matter has come out of the homosexual community."
In addition to Jackson, the Virginia GOP this weekend picked state Senator Mark D. Obenshain to run for attorney general. Obenshain supports so-called "personhood" bills and has said emergency contraception is a form of abortion.
From the comments:
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The AG nominee wants women to report miscarriages to the police.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/20/2035411/virginia-gop-nominee-for-attorney-general-would-force-women-to-report-their-miscarriages-to-police/
Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police
Also at DU:
Virginias GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee: Obama Has Muslim Perspective Toward The World
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014487393
Bishop E.W. Jackson: "The idea that Barack Obama is a Christian is Laughable"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017119793
Hard to believe, but:
About E.W. Jackson
E.W. Jackson served three years and was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps. He then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree(BA), Summa Cum Laude with a Phi Beta Kappa Key from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Three years later he graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor (JD). While in law school, he was accepted into the Baptist ministry and studied theology at Harvard Divinity School.
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Ken Cuccinelli's Running Mate Compared Planned Parenthood to KKK, Said LGBT Minds Are Perverted (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2013
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JPZenger
(6,819 posts)1. He's much more of a loon than Cuccinelli
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022871203
The Repubs wouldn't let the voters pick a Governor and LT. Gov. candidate. Instead, they held a convention of party insiders to make the decision. The other Governor candidates dropped out because they knew the fix was in. However, the Lt. Gov's race was wide open with multiple candidates. That makes it all the more absurd that they picked such a loon.
The Repubs wouldn't let the voters pick a Governor and LT. Gov. candidate. Instead, they held a convention of party insiders to make the decision. The other Governor candidates dropped out because they knew the fix was in. However, the Lt. Gov's race was wide open with multiple candidates. That makes it all the more absurd that they picked such a loon.