The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg
on Monday chided Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli for
defending the state's sodomy law.
Cuccinelli, a 44-year-old Republican,
is the state's current attorney general. Despite a 2003 Supreme
Court ruling declaring sodomy laws unconstitutional, his office
argues that its law has protected children from sexual predators. At
the website VAChildPredators.com, Cuccinelli highlights 90 people
identified as “sexual predators” who “would come off Virginia's
sex offender registry if a Virginia law … is not upheld.”
“Whatever happened to the slogan,
'Virginia is for lovers?'” co-host Barbara Walters rhetorically
asked while discussing the issue on Monday's show.
“Michael Douglas better stay out of
Virginia,” Joy
Behar quipped.
“What he [Cuccinelli] does is
automatically equate oral sex with homosexuality,” Walters said.
“Well then I'm as gay as a gay
[inaudible],” Sherri Shepherd responded. “I'm just saying.”
“Why are you [Cuccinelli] in my
bedroom,” a heated Goldberg said. “Get out. Get out. What he
is saying and what he is doing are two different things. And I don't
remember God saying anything about you being in my bedroom telling me
what to do. So, sir you're not gonna become the governor if you stay
on this track.” (The video is embedded on this is page. Visit
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(Related: Ken
Cuccinelli remains opposed to the “personal challenge of
homosexuality.”)