4 Apr 2013 11:58 am
And he will fail to get a law like this passed.What law? What are you talking about?He's not trying to get a law passed.He's trying to get a federal appeals court to reverse their decision that struck down Virginia's sodomy law as unconstitutional.Virginia prosecutors used the sodomy law in order to be able to charge a 47-year-old man with a felony for soliciting oral sex from a 17-year-old girl.Normally under other statutory rape laws, he would have been charged with a misdemeanor.In 2004 a bipartisan group in the Virginia Senate backed a bill that would have fixed the states Crimes Against Nature law to comply with Lawrence v Texas, eliminating provisions dealing with consenting adults in private and leaving in place provisions relating to prostitution, public sex, and those other than consenting adults. That would have covered the above mentioned case. But Cuccinelli opposed the bill in committee and helped kill it on the Senate floor.And he did that because of his views on homosexuality. He said that homosexual acts are wrong, and that it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that. IOW he wanted to be able to use the sodomy law to prosecute gay consenting adults for their behavior.So it's his own fault that the sodomy law was now struck down as unconstitutional by the federal appeals court. The Virginia legislature had a chance to bring the law in line with the Lawrence V Texas decision, and Cuccinelli killed it.Cuccinelli has been hoist with own petard, because it's highly unlikely that the appeals court decision will be overturned. And this whole thing could have been entirely avoided had he and the Republican majority in the Virginia General Assembly not been so determined to ignore the Supreme Court in the first place.Are you expecting a politician to be flawless philosophically?No, But I expect that they don't use the laws to impose their prejudices and their religious zealotry on us.