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Published: December 21, 2020

Virginia Republicans censure anti-Trump Republican for officiating same-sex ‘wedding’

By The Editor

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December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Appomattox County Republican Committee unanimously voted to censure a Republican Congressman for violating the “values and principles of the Republican Party” by officiating a same-sex “wedding” in 2019, for which the GOP had failed to censure Rep. Denver Riggleman last year.

As LifeSiteNews covered at the time, in July 2019 the libertarian Riggleman (who represents Virginia’s 5th Congressional District) officiated a “wedding” ceremony for two of his male campaign aides, arguing that while he believes “government shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all, but if it is, everybody has to be treated equally before the law. That is part of our Republican creed. And it also comes down to love is love. I’m happy to join two people together who obviously love each other.”

Conservatives on the Republican Committee of the 5th Congressional District of Virginia failed to censure Riggleman over the incident at the time, but the Appomattox County Republican Committee had more luck on December 12 of this year, the Washington Blade reported.

The “wedding,” which the committee said “goes against the values and principles of the Republican Party” and

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