The Advocate Reports on Winsome Earle-Sears Delivering Commencement Addresses at Institutions with Extreme Records on LGBTQ and Abortion Rights 

Notice how both Winsome Earle-Sears and Glenn Youngkin mostly seem to deliver Commencement addresses at far-right colleges founded by the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, etc? VERY telling – see the following press release from DPVA about The Advocate report on Earle-Sears speaking at virulently homophobic schools…

NEW: Sears Delivers Commencement Addresses at Institutions with Extreme Records on LGBTQ and Abortion Rights 

VIRGINIA – New reporting from the Advocate details Winsome Earle-Sears’ extreme record of opposing LGBTQ and reproductive rights, including delivering commencement addresses at two schools that openly denounce marriage equality and reproductive rights.

The Advocate: Virginia Republican candidate for governor addresses grads at extremely anti-LGBTQ+ schools

• Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, now the Republican nominee for governor, continues to cement her far-right platform with appearances at two schools that openly denounce LGBTQ+ people and reproductive freedom.

• Her commencement speech at Regent University and an upcoming one at Atlantic Shores Christian School, a private pre-k through 12 institution, are the latest signals that she is not moderating her views for a general election campaign — she’s leaning in.

• Regent’s official doctrine affirms that marriage exists only between one man and one woman and opposes abortion in nearly all cases, asserting that life begins at conception.

• Regent holds that abortion is “tantamount to murder.”

• The school’s policies prohibit “homosexual conduct,” which they categorize alongside “pornography, premarital sex, adultery,” and “lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct,” and require all student leaders and employees to adhere to its biblical code of sexual ethics strictly.

• Earlier this month, Earle-Sears spoke at Regent University, where she earned an M.A. in 2003. The late televangelist and longtime anti-LGBTQ+ firebrand Pat Robertson founded the school in 1977.

• Robertson, who launched the school in 1977, didn’t just preach it — he politicized it.  He infamously blamed “abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians” for the 9/11 attacks, saying America had invited God’s wrath. 

• These beliefs remain embedded in the culture and code of the university where Earle-Sears chose to deliver a celebratory address.

• Earle-Sears is scheduled to stand at the podium again on June 6 — this time at Atlantic Shores Christian School in Chesapeake, another institution whose statement of faith declares that homosexuality and bisexuality are “sinful and prohibited.”

• These are not isolated incidents. They are consistent with Earle-Sears’ long record of pushing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policy. 

• Last year, she wrote a personal note of moral opposition on HB174, a bill passed by the General Assembly to prohibit marriage discrimination, Washington, D.C., NBC affiliate WRC reports.