I can see this in two ways. On the one hand, sex between two consenting adults or the right to believe that women can't get pregnant from a rape are not illegal, and while, not as many people would be uptight about, oh, say a 40 year old single man and a 40 year old single woman having consensual sex, though a breach of Biblical law, a lot more are disgusted by same sex with such a disparity of age or the fact that such a knuckle of dragging view of rape could be a part of political rhetoric.
Thus, while there is nothing about the sex act or the rape view that should legally bar a person from a race, they do speak to a person's character and judgment. In a world where so many people hold their sexual views as Biblically absolute or scientifically defined as fact, and will come down hard on the 'sinner' or the 'ignorant', it doesn't speak well of your judgment, in my opinion, to demonstrate the a contempt for the imputed probity each type holds for each example.
In a world in transition from the certainty of ancient religious anti-homosexual bigotry that homosexuality is evil, to the growing contempt replacing ingrained misogyny, also of religious origin, it isn't really political sensible, not good judgment, to show a disdain for the views of any of the sides. The idea in politics is to win votes, as many as you can, and if you aren't sufficiently intelligent or sufficiently restrained in your behavior to reflect some basic sensibility to what it takes to get elected, you probably have insufficient sense to know the kinds of votes the folk you represent and your party nationally would want and expect of you. You would probably not, in short, be a very good representative.
What I find interesting about this is the fact that while the view of the Republican is profoundly disgusting and dangerous to rape victims and women because it goes hand in hand with the Republican desire to throw out Roe v. Wade and which the House Republicans have made a number of attempts to enact, I can understand and sympathize and even forgive this insanity because I know the people who think this way are brain defective through no fault of their own. Not to say I wouldn't try to stop this from becoming law by the choices I make with voting or expressing my political opinion, but I can find no such compassion for a person of 56 having sex with somebody 17 regardless of gender. It simply feels like predation to me.
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