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republican candidate for Virginia The governor defended his opposition to gay marriage during a debate against his Democrat opponent.
During a televised face-off on Thursday (Oct. 9), Democrat Abigail Spanberger said Winsome Earl-Sears was “morally opposed to same-sex marriage”, to which the Republican nominee repeatedly cried foul: “This is not discrimination.”
He also said that the lack of employment protections for LGBTQ people “is not discrimination.”
The debate at Norfolk State University became heated at times, and Earl-Sears repeatedly talked over Spanberger, forcing the arbitrators to intervene.
The main focus was on Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee of Virginia for Attorney General. Last week, texts from 2022 surfaced in which Jones suggested that one of the state’s top legislative Republicans should be shot in the head.