Local GOP leaders in Virginia orchestrated two unsuccessful votes this week to censure Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman for officiating a same-sex wedding for two volunteer campaign staffers.

On July 14, Riggleman oversaw the marriage of two men who worked for his 2018 campaign, the Washington Post reported earlier this month.

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“My real belief is that government shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all, but if it is, everybody has to be treated equally before the law,” Riggleman said in an interview with the Post. “That is part of our Republican creed. And it also comes down to love is love. I’m happy to join two people together who obviously love each other.”

The first censure measure, proposed Monday by a member of Virginia’s 5th Congressional District Republican Committee, never received an actual vote after Chairman Melvin Adams ruled the motion out of order.