Bob McDonnell says he never opposed gay judges

Dan82 · May 30, 2012

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ed-gay-judges/2012/05/29/gJQANWJlzU_blog.html

Bob McDonnell would like you to know that he has not, in fact, evolved on gay judges.

Earlier this month, just before Virginia’s General Assembly rejected a gay judicial nominee, the Republican governor said that homosexuality should not disqualify someone from serving as a judge. He reiterated that stance on a radio program Tuesday and said that’s always been his position.

“I have long been an advocate of judicial selection based on merit,” he said on WTOP’s “Ask the Governor.”

What about in 2003, host Mark Segraves asked. Back then, while leading a successful effort to unseat a lesbian Circuit Court judge, then-delegate McDonnell questioned whether someone who had engaged in oral or anal sex could serve as a judge because that behavior would violate the state’s anti-sodomy statute...

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Revan · May 30, 2012

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