Mini-Post: Republican Mindset

This is where the Republican mindset is from the 1950s, when it was believed and still is by many Republicans that being LGBTQ+ is a choice. That one day we wake up and say... gee I think it will be fun to be discriminated against, it will be great to get fired from jobs, and it will be fun getting the sh*t beat out of us.

GOP candidate claims firing people for being gay ‘is not discrimination’ in Virginia governor’s debate

Winsome Earle-Sears's remarks drew immediate backlash.

The Advocate

By Christopher Wiggins

October 10 2025

In a combative and chaotic debate Thursday nigh, in Norfolk, Virginia, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican candidate for governor, declared that opposing marriage equality and allowing employers to fire people for being gay “is not discrimination,” igniting a firestorm that has reverberated through Virginia politics and beyond.

The statement came during the only scheduled debate between Earle-Sears and Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer and three-term member of Congress. The event, held at Norfolk State University and broadcast by TV station WAVY, was frequently interrupted by Earle-Sears’s outbursts, prompting moderators to repeatedly ask her to stop speaking over her opponent. “Please don’t interrupt,” one moderator said after Earle-Sears cut into Spanberger’s answer. Another warned, “Ms. Earle-Sears, we’re not going to be able to get to as many topics if we keep having to give Ms. Spanberger time."

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Even some Republicans criticized the lieutenant governor’s behavior. Former GOP U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock said Earle-Sears “demonstrates her bigotry once again,” noting that she “wouldn’t stop babbling and talking over everyone when it wasn’t her time.”

The polling has... Spanberger leading 52% to 42%