So says The Washington Post editorial board.
Putting aside what Mr. Cuccinelli has to say about homosexuals when he’s not trying so hard to be polite, let’s call his comments what they are: bigotry. Bigotry is as pernicious today, applied to homosexuals, as it was a century ago or less, when immigrants and minorities were its main victims. And it is just as familiar. Appeals to “natural law” and “intrinsic” rights and wrongs were the usual cliches deployed to justify the old-time religion of hatred then directed at African Americans, Jews, Italians, Irish and other immigrants.
The Post agrees with The Virginian-Pilot: election of Ken Cuccinelli would be an embarrassment to Virginia.
Do you part to make sure that doesn’t happen. Vote Steve Shannon for Attorney General.
UPDATE: New Shannon ad is up. I saw it on TV just a few minutes ago.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
All across the blogosphere we see a sudden flurry of attacks on Ken Cuccinelli, over his Christian-based views against homosexual BEHAVIOR.
Ken has always spoken against the negative impacts on society of homosexual BEHAVIOR, and has always expressed tolerance for people who are homosexuals.
America should have an open dialog regarding the high rates of disease within the male homosexual community. Any health professional will confirm that this is a real problem and such topics must not be made taboo in a free society. Certainly people are free to make lifestyle choices, but they must be given all of the facts and consequences of such choices.
Americans, in general, want to be kind to one another, but we made an error during the AIDS scare by halting public attribution of diseases to homosexual behavior. What Ken is alluding to is that, AIDS, Hepatitis, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are just some of the diseases that are closely associated with homosexual behavior (in males) and occur at much higher rates within the homosexual community than in the general population.
More open research and discussion needs to be done. We must not allow a few, probably well meaning people, to suppress the truth. Some positive results of open research regarding homosexual behavior include the revelation made back in the 1970s that homosexual men were no more likely to be pedophiles than the general population. Before that data was published, many Americans presumed that homosexuals were also inclined to pedophilia.
Ken Cuccinelli’s position must not be confused with actual bigotry, such as that practiced by Assembly of God pastors who still tell their members that homosexuals are evil, and mothers are commanded to, “…guard your children from such evil…” Such rhetoric is largely responsible for violent attacks on homosexuals and their ostracism from many of our communities.
What is going on in this recent round of attacks, is a rather desperate effort on the part of some Democratic strategists, where they have given up on Deeds and the popcorn queen, and their only hope is to somehow get Shannon to eek out a win over Cuccinelli.
Neither Ken Cuccinelli nor Steve Shannon are supporters of enhanced liberties for our citizens, and neither should be our Attorney General. Both men have bragged about how they want to put more Virginians in jail. Most would have expected the Democratic candidate to speak strongly about equal justice for ALL, but not with Steve “Jail more Virginians” Shannon. What a POS.
Recommend that Virginians who love liberty show their disapproval at the polls by writing in a vote (don’t leave the ballot blank or they will think you forgot to vote for that line), either use your name, my name or any other name you can think of, that will send a message, “None of the Above!”