Former AG Ken Cuccinelli attacks Mark Herring for not defending Virginia's gay marriage ban - Metro Weekly

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "As attorney general, I had to defend gun regulations that I didn't like, but they were legal, and they were defensible," Cuccinelli told The Washington Times.
42% : Earlier this year, lawmakers voted to repeal a 2006 voter-approved constitutional amendment (known as the Marshall-Newman Amendment) which is the last vestige of the same-sex marriage ban.
40% : a ban on conversion therapy, protections for transgender students in schools, hate crime protections for LGBTQ people, a ban on the gay or trans "panic" defense, a nonbinary gender marker option on Virginia driver's licenses, the repeal of the statutory and constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage, health insurance protections, and the Virginia Values Act, the statewide law prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination in housing, employment, credit, and public accommodations.
39% : In 2014, upon taking office, Herring announced he would not defend the state's ban on same-sex marriage, saying he believed it violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, on the grounds that marriage is a fundamental right denied to some Virginians because of their sexual orientation and gender.
36% : Ken Cuccinelli, the former Republican Attorney General of Virginia, is attacking sitting Attorney General Mark Herring (D) for not defending the state's now-defunct ban on same-sex marriage.
36% : As Herring pointed out in 2014, any criticism of his actions around the same-sex marriage law -- especially by Kilgore, Cuccinelli, and other past attorneys general -- would demonstrate their hypocrisy while also ignoring past precedent.
35% : Since Herring's announcement in 2014, Virginia's statutory ban on same-sex marriage has been repealed.

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