Tag: Virginia Republicans
The GOP tried to censure a Congressman for marrying a gay couple. It didn’t...
Earlier this month, Republican House Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia officiated a same-sex wedding for Anthony LeCounte and Alex Pisciarino, two gay Republicans friends and former campaign volunteers. The wedding was July 14 at a vineyard in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
But when his Republican colleagues in a committee representing Virginia’s 5th congressional district found out about his involvement, some of them tried to formally censure him for “failing to uphold the Republican Party platform states ‘marriage is between...