There Are Three VA GOP 2018 U.S. Senate Candidates. We Know Two (Corey Stewart, EW Jackson) Are

There Are Three VA GOP 2018 U.S. Senate Candidates. We Know Two (Corey Stewart, EW Jackson) Are Extremists. How About the Third (Nick Freitas)?

Currently, there are three Virginia Republicans vying for the nomination to get crushed by to take on Sen. Tim Kaine in November. Those three are: 1) neo-Confederate Corey Stewart, who recently vowed to run a “brutal,” “ruthless,” “cutthroat” campaign and bragged, ““I’m not a nice guy anymore, I’m brutal”; 2) “Extreme Team 2013” alum EW Jackson, notorious for…basically everything, about whom DPVA Chair Susan Swecker said (correctly) that he “is notorious for his offensive, disgusting views,” including calling President Obama “‘evil’ and ‘the Antichrist,’ compar[ing] Obamacare to slavery, and call[ing] LGBTQ people ‘perverted’ and ‘very sick.’”

So yeah, Corey and EW are clearly both bonkers. But how about the guy behind door #3, Del. Nick Freitas (R-Madison/Orange/Culpeper Counties)? Is Freitas any more “moderate” or “establishment” (as EW Jackson has called him) and/or less bigoted than Corey or EW? Here are a few items that will quickly disabuse you of that idea.

Freitas was a co-sponsor, along with our old friend “Sideshow Bob” Marshall and other anti-LGBT Republicans like Scott Lingamfelter, Mark Cole and Dave LaRock, of Virginia’s version of the so-called “bathroom bill,” which even the highly conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page called “even more extreme” than North Carolina’s infamous law. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Virginia bill co-sponsored by Freitas went even “further than the North Carolina measure in one regard: It requires school principals to notify a parent if a student asks to be treated as a member of the opposite sex — whether by being allowed to use a different bathroom or being addressed by a different name or pronoun.” So much for Freitas being “libertarian” or “establishment,” as EW Jackson weirdly called him.

Freitas recently bragged about a “Courageous Leadership Award” he received from the “Virginia Christian Alliance” for having “voted the right way and…stood up and spoke out for Christian causes.” Among other things, the Virginia Christian Alliance believes in “Creationism” and rejects Darwinian evolution, a cornerstone of modern science; opposes “the culture of death as in abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, suicide & doctor-assisted suicide, Abortifacients, cloning & embryonic stem cell research, and the killing of excess babies, as in in-vitro-fertilization”; promotes what it calls “Biblical Sexuality,” with articles that rail against what they call “transanity,” “gender ideology,” “leftists pushing transgenderism on kids,” “homosexual sinners,” “transgender medical abuse of children,” etc.; and pushes what it calls the “God Ordained Family,” which it describes as “respect[ing] the Godly institution of family by marrying rather than practicing cohabitation, resist[ing] the temptation of no-fault divorce, and oppos[ing] the legalization of perverted partnerships and adoptions.”

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