Scrutiny Spreads to '03 McDonnell Remarks

Source: Washington Post 09/09/09

Scrutiny Spreads to '03 McDonnell Remarks
'Homosexual Conduct' Comments 'Irrelevant' to Campaign, He Says


By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

In January 2003, then-Del. Robert F. McDonnell helped gavel in one of the most extraordinary judicial reappointment hearings in Virginia history: a seven-hour, trial-like affair that led to questions about whether the future Republican gubernatorial candidate thought gays were fit to serve on the bench.

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"There is certain homosexual conduct that is in violation of the law," McDonnell added. "I'm not telling you I would disqualify a judge per se if he said he was gay. I'm talking about their actions."

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Scanlon, who now lives in Colorado and is no longer a reporter, also remembers asking McDonnell whether he had ever violated the crimes against nature statute himself -- a fair question, he thought, because McDonnell had raised the legal point. The statute, among other things, prohibits oral or anal sexual contact, regardless of the sex of the participants. McDonnell's response, Scanlon reported, was: "Not that I can recall."



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Well well well. Maybe the 19 year old thesis is relevant after all. McDonnell, in his own words, implies that homosexual conduct might disqualify a judge. And is there anyone alive who cannot recall if they ever engaged in oral or anal sex? McDonnell to this day has not answered the question as to whether he violated the same Virginia statute that he was citing as possible grounds for excluding people from being a judge.

Note that McDonnell inserted himself into this discussion in '03 - it was not the responsibility of the House committee which he headed, according to two REPUBLICAN senators in the VA legislature.

You are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history.

Not that I recall? What? He's leaving open the door that he may have? Isn't the missionary-only response to that question supposed to be an automatic "NO!"?

Boy, that must be a fun marriage.

The mind boggles. I still maintain that the most outspoken opponents of all things gay often are hiding something about themselves that they are ashamed of.

this is probably the point.

ESPECIALLY if it was "not proper" or "immoral" or "something you wouldn't want mommy and daddy - or your BEST FRIENDS to know"!!!

Now, "I can't recall" what I ate for lunch some days LAST WEEK, or "I can't recall" exactly which days I stayed LATE at work, and "I can't recall" the last time I vacuumed my carpet REAL GOOD. Those are legitimate "I can't recalls". But SEXUAL ACTS - especially "CLANDESTINE" and potentially "EMBARASSING" (to you) ones? - riiiiiight...

Maybe that's what he's saying. He might have blown some dude but he was too f'ed up to remember.

trust me.

DO! And it wasn't that great for me either."