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MARSHALL SAYS 'SODOMY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT'
By WESLEY P. HESTERRichmond Times-Dispatch 05/18/2012In a testy interview Thursday with CNN on the Virginia legislature's refusal to appoint openly gay Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland to a judgeship, Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, declared that "sodomy is not a civil right." Marshall, a U.S. Senate candidate and one of the General Assembly's most conservative members, denied that he had lobbied against Thorne-Begland because he is gay, but instead termed him an "activist."