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It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from E.W. Jackson—Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor hopeful who thinks that yoga is the gateway to satan, but then decided that he doesn’t actually think that—so here’s some news to remind everyone that yes, Jackson still wants to help govern Virginia.
Last night, Jackson faced off in a debate against opponent Ralph Northam and, as expected, things got a little heated as Northam attacked some of Jackson’s more, uh, “quirky” personal beliefs. The Post reports that Northam “cast his opponent as dangerously divisive and personally irresponsible,” and called him out on his controversial statements about LGBT communities and the Democratic party:
“What I do in church translates to what I do in everyday life,” Northam said. “Whether it’s said in my church or whether it’s said in my medical clinic or whether it’s said before the Senate, it’s on me and it’s what I believe in. Our job as lieutenant governor is going to be to unite people and to move Virginia in a positive direction. Making statements against LGBT individuals, making statements against Democrats, that they’re anti-God, that they’re anti-life — those kinds of statements, they’re all offensive. We’re all Virginians.”
According to The Post, things got most uncomfortable when moderator Peggy Fox “asked Jackson about the potential harm caused by his inflammatory statements.” Jackson reportedly quoted a section of the Virginia Constitution that “differentiates social opinions from one’s ability to govern.”
So there you have it, Virginia, Jackson’s statements that LGBT individuals are “very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally,” and that yoga may or may not open up a person’s soul to satan won’t at all affect how he governs Virginia. Phew.
