October 22, 2025 News & Press Releases

NEW: Sears Lies (Again) About Opposing Same-Sex Marriage and Claiming “That’s Not Discrimination”


by DPVA Press

VIRGINIA – In a new interview on Jillian Michaels’ podcast “Keeping It Real,” Winsome Earle-Sears lies again about opposing same-sex marriage and her comments during the debate that firing Virginians for being gay is “not discrimination.” 
 
During the gubernatorial debate, when discussing her record of opposing same-sex marriage and supporting letting Virginians be fired for being gay, Winsome Earle-Sears repeatedly said “that’s not discrimination.” She left a handwritten note on a bill protecting marriage equality that she is “morally opposed” to the legislation and pledged to allow Virginians to be fired for being gay and block same-sex couples from adopting children, while also calling homosexuality an “immoral lifestyle choice.”
 
WATCH HERE:
 

Transcript: 

  • If you became governor, no, would you take away the rights that come to my family through a federally recognized marriage?
  • No, absolutely not. [...]  I had already previously answered the question about gay marriage and all of that, and whether I would discriminate, and I had already said no. [...]

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