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Advocacy group endorses Va. Democrats despite tepid support of LGBT issues
RICHMOND — Equality Virginia PAC, the advocacy arm Equality Virgina, on Friday endorsed the Democratic ticket for Virginia’s three top elective offices, while at the same time acknowledging that a lack of public comment on LGBT issues from the candidates was problematic.
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E.W. Jackson: Using my past anti-gay statements against me is ‘persecution’
E. W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for Lt. Governor in Virginia, on Monday stood by his anti-gay and anti-abortion views and suggested that efforts to hold him accountable for his previous statements now that he is running for office was somehow an unconstitutional religious test.
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Little substance on LGBT rights from Va. Democratic candidates
RICHMOND, Va. — The Democratic party’s candidates for Virginia’s top elected offices had little to offer on Wednesday on the issue of LGBT rights, despite facing a trio of vehemently anti-gay Republican opponents.
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Va. GOP candidate for Lt. Gov. defends claim that gays are ‘very sick people’
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Virginia’s GOP nominee for Lt. Governor appeared Thursday on Janet Mefferd’s radio program to defend his claims that gays and lesbians are “very sick people.”
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Candidate for Va. Lt. Governor warns same-sex marriage leads to bestiality
During a sermon last October, Virginia GOP Lt. Governor nominee E.W. Jackson added to his long list of virulently anti-gay remarks by warning that marriage equality for gays and lesbians will result in the legalization of man-animal unions.
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Va. GOP nominates trio of anti-LGBT candidates for state leadership
RICHMOND, Va. — Delegates at Virginia’s GOP Convention on Saturday nominated a trio of candidates with a long history of marginalizing and demonizing LGBT people in hopes they will become their state’s next leaders.