He didn't and doesn't. But the libtards figured if they shouted about it enough, the low-information pukes would believe he did.
Only minimal Google-fu is required to find the true story. From Cuccinelli's Wikipedia bio:
Sodomy lawIn March 2013, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals struck down Virginia's anti-sodomy law in a case involving William Scott MacDonald, a 47 year old man who solicited sex from a 17-year-old girl. On June 25, 2013, Cuccinelli filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to uphold the law, saying the appeals court ruling would release MacDonald from probation and "threatens to undo convictions of child predators that were obtained under this law after 2003." Cuccinelli said the law is important for prosecutors to be able to "obtain felony charges against adults who commit or solicit this sex act with minors," and noted that the law "is not - and cannot be -- used against consenting adults acting in private."
In October 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Cuccinelli's appeal.
You can see Cuccinnelli's own website on the topic: http://www.vachildpredators.com/
Basically, a Virginia prosecutor screwed up when he used an unconstitutional anti-sodomy law to prosecute a dirty old man. Cuccinelli tried to get the appeals court to read into the law an adult-minor exception to its unconstitutionality. But, alas, the court refused to disbelieve its lying eyes. Read the decision here.
While I would love to simply blame Liberals and low-information voters, I lay most of the blame on the Republican Party. This is something I have been saying this 2008/9. The GOP simply doesn't know how to sell its side of the story. It does not format an effective approach when it comes to communication efficacy, and is totally comfortable letting the Democrats create and direct the narrative. It happened with McCain, and definitely happened with Romney (and any other Republicans and/or Conservatives that seemed likely to rise above the fray). The GOP, be it the RINO facet or the Conservative aspect, has a tendency to let the Left frame the narrative, and the problem with that is that the Left is totally fine with that agreement (and has gotten quite good at ensuring the 'proper' message goes out).
When the Left is shouting loud and clear what was the GOP (when they were actually trying to support Cuccinelli) doing? Next to nothing. What about Cuccinelli? Well, telling anyone who would hear him, but the problem is without the GOP machine backing him there is no way the media will throw him anything close to a bone.
One of the Left's biggest weapons has been communication. They own the media. They own the narrative. They have had at least two generations to exude their message (look at any TV programming being consumed by young adults ...right now it is ok to be in a homosexual relationship). They own the schools. And they also own government ...both sides, as the Democrats are obviously on the Left, and most Republicans are more liberal than the typical 1970s Democrat! They own government. And they continue to churn out The Message.
Communication has been the GOP's biggest weakness. The typical Republican and/or Conservative cannot communicate effectively. They make mistakes that end up being made into huge issues by the media. They act goofy and do not seem secure. But most of all many seem unawares of how to effectively communicate Conservative ideas and Conservatism.
It seems already the Left is creating the narrative on who should be the GOP nominee in the next election. Watch and see. The GOP will play along with that script, and trust that on FR there will be more articles asking why the Republicans lost. Thing is, even when the Republicans win chances are that the person will be a Liberal. Yes, not to the Left as the Democrat candidate, but definitely more to the Left than any Democratic candidate since Carter.
The Left has played a good game, since if they win they win, and if they lose they win (but not as much).
The first step towards changing this has to be for Conservative nominees to be able to effectively communicate. If you cannot effectively send out your message you are dead in the water, particularly when the other side already has an overwhelming advantage in media. Don't get roped in as a dope, don't come across as daft, don't forget your lines, don't be baited into silly-land (unless, like Reagan, you are able to use that effectively against the baiter), and be able to show in a succint yet powerful way why Conservatism works.
Without being able to craft the narrative one will be reduced to explaining why he didn't mean you wanted to ban oral sex, appearing like an utter sot, and with every explanation serving to create more fodder for the media to work with.