Virginia Attorney General Ken “The Cooch” Cuccinelli’s job is to enforce the law, but when it comes to a new federal law mandating that employee health insurance plans include the morning-after pill and other emergency contraception, he’s encouraging opponents to break the law and go to jail, reports the AP:

On Iowa conservative radio host Steve Deace’s Wednesday night show, the Republican gubernatorial candidate and tea party favorite said civil disobedience is one way to attack the Affordable Care Act requirement now being challenged in a federal lawsuit by the Hobby Lobby stores.

Cuccinelli called the mandate an attack on the Roman Catholic Church and religious freedom and suggested that opponents fight back by forcing the feds to crack down on those who don’t comply.

Cuccinelli was the first attorney general in the nation to challenge the health care reform law in 2010, but the case was dismissed a year later. Over the years Cuccinelli has been known to say some odd things—including claiming that President Obama might not have been born here and that D.C. was planning on shipping its rats to the Old Dominion—though he did raise constitutional concerns with a bill debated by the Virginia legislature last year that would have mandated transvaginal ultrasounds for any woman seeking an abortion.