Cindy McCain, wife of Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has made a big splash and come out in strong support of the right of same-sex marriage and against California’s Proposition 8. Good for her. If more Republicans actually supported liberty, as opposed to paying lip service to the concept, it would be a better country.
Her husband’s office released the following statement in response:
Senator McCain respects the views of members of his family. The senator chaired the effort to successfully pass Arizona Proposition 102, the Marriage Protection Amendment, and his opposition to gay marriage remains the same.
Would someone please explain to me how prohibiting same sex marriage in any way “protects” heterosexual marriage?
And, while you are at it, would someone please explain to me how President Obama has been supportive in any way of equal rights for gays in the year since he became president? Check out this article by Michelangelo Signorile, writing in Salon yesterday.
Obama’s coldness toward gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people upon taking office could have predicted that he wouldn’t get tough on the banks or show any passion for a public option. Gays were the canaries in the coal mine back on Day One of this administration. That was the day when Rick Warren gave the invocation at the inauguration. It signaled how easily this president would insult and sideline a loyal constituency in return for the false promise of bringing in people who will never support him.Since then he has stepped on his LGBT supporters time and again, including that heinous Defense of Marriage Act brief filed by the Justice Department last June. In addition to pointing to a flowery speech here or there, apologists will tell you about the hate crimes bill or other “pro-gay” actions. But they are no-brainers; Obama has yet to spend any capital on gays.