Survey shows Earle-Sears’ opposition to LGBTQ+ workplace protections, adoptions, marriages

Virginia GOP’s gubernatorial ticket pairs anti-LGBTQ+ candidate with gay man whose rights she opposes

Virginia Republicans are offering voters one of the most paradoxical statewide tickets in recent memory. Winsome Earle-Sears, the state’s Black lieutenant governor and now the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee, is running alongside John Reid, a white, gay conservative radio host seeking the lieutenant governorship. Reid’s longtime partner, Alonzo Mable, who is Black, serves on Virginia’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board.The ticket is historic in its visibility—R…

Survey shows Earle-Sears’ opposition to LGBTQ+ workplace protections, adoptions, marriages

Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears expressed strong opposition to a series of LGBTQ+ rights in a candidate questionnaire completed when she unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2004. She responded “yes” to questions about whether she would vote to block same-sex…

GOP Candidate Said Gay People Were ‘Immoral’

Virginia gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears (R) expressed strong opposition to a series of LGBTQ+ rights in a candidate questionnaire completed when she unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2004, the Virginia Mercury reports. She responded “yes” to questions about whether she would vote to block same-sex couples from adopting children and oppose workplace protections for gay people, and she indicated that she believed homosexuality is an “i…

BREAKING: Newly Revealed Survey Shows Earle-Sears’ Opposition to Workplace Protections, Adoptions, Marriages for Gay Virginians - Democratic Party of Virginia

Virginia Mercury: Sears “responded ‘yes’ [..] she would vote to block same-sex couples from adopting children and oppose workplace protections for gay people, and she indicated that she believed homosexuality is an ‘immoral lifestyle choice.’”  VIRGINIA – New reporting from the Virginia Mercury details that Winsome Earle-Sears said in a candidate questionnaire that she would oppose workplace protections for gay people, block same-sex couples fro…