Virginia’s Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor E. W. Jackson says his ugly hate speech is just fine because he’s a Christian, and he’s not sorry at all.

And what’s more, if you object to the disgusting things he says, you’re persecuting him and all Christians.

A picture of the right wing in America — ranting, hate-spewing religious fanatics with persecution complexes.

“I say the things that I say because I’m a Christian, not because I hate anybody, but because I have religious values that matter to me,” Jackson told reporters at a campaign stop in Fredericksburg. “Attacking me because I hold to those principles is attacking every church-going person, every family that’s living a traditional family life, everybody who believes that we all deserve the right to live. So I don’t have anything to rephrase or apologize for. I would just say people should not paint me as one-dimensional.”

Jackson, a virtual unknown who has never held public office, has grabbed headlines in recent days as Democrats immediately seized on his past comments on abortion, race and homosexuality. He suggested that Planned Parenthood has done more to hurt blacks than the Ku Klux Klan and called gays and lesbians “perverted” and “very sick people.”