2018 VA Senate race: on Civil Rights

Corey Stewart: Stop brainwashing school children with the Homosexual Agenda

Tim Kaine (D): Yes. In 2006 opposed VA amendment banning same sex marriage. "We're still fighting for full LGBT equality."

Corey Stewart (R): No. Strongly opposes; seeks to overturn Supreme Court legalization.

Tim Kaine: We're still fighting for full LGBT equality

Tim Kaine (D): Yes. In 2006 opposed VA amendment banning same sex marriage. "We're still fighting for full LGBT equality."

Corey Stewart (R): No. Strongly opposes; seeks to overturn Supreme Court legalization. Signed survey to oppose "brainwashing elementary school children with the Homosexual Agenda."

Corey Stewart: Protect Confederate monuments

KAINE: Yes, it is. But look who won last year. It wasn`t the people who want to secede or go backwards who are winning elections.

Q: When you mayor of Richmond, you dealt with some of these questions about how to represent the Confederacy. The rallying point last year for the Unite the Right rally was the question of the removal of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville.

KAINE: Charlottesville was not about statues. It was about hatred. It was about bigotry and division. This was not a save the statue rally. It was a Unite the Right rally. Statues don`t make you march around chanting, "Jews will not replace us." They don`t make you say "blood and soil" or other slogans from Nazi youth rallies. To say Charlottesville was about statues diminishes the gravity of it.

Tim Kaine: Redefine VA as rainbow coalition instead of Unite the Right

KAINE: Yes.

Q: But it feels, on many of these issues, that it`s very much an open wound. What has actually changed since Charlottesville's [racist attack]?

KAINE: Charlottesville was shocking. At that Unite the Right rally, most of the people arrested for violence that day were out-of-staters who came in to bring their hatred and bigotry. What I see that has changed in Virginia is people saying, "we`re not going to let our state be defined this way." It was seen most directly in the Virginia elections in November of 2017: Of the 15 people that got elected, 11 of the 15 were women, African-American, LGBT--It was a real rainbow coalition.

Q: Yet Corey Stewart, the man running against you, wants to protect Confederate monuments. That`s countering what you`re describing.

KAINE: Yes, it is. But look who won last year. It wasn`t the people who want to secede or go backwards who are winning elections.

Corey Stewart: 2017: praised Virginia decision to secede during Civil War

Said Stewart: "This is the state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and James Monroe. It's a state of the founders. It's the state of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."

He added: "But it's also the state of Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart. Because, at the base of it, Virginians, we think for ourselves. And if the established order is wrong, we rebel. We did that in the Revolution, we did it in the Civil War, and we're doing it today. We're doing it today because they're trying to rob us of everything that we hold dear: our history, our heritage, our culture."

Corey Stewart: Strongly supports traditional marriage

A: Stewart believes in traditional marriage between one man and one woman.ÿ

Corey Stewart: Unfair to condemn only white nationalists

Corey Stewart: Transgenderism is despicable