I’m John McCain and I Approved This Anti-Gay Message
By Michael Crawford
Despite the spin being put on John McCain’s anti-gay record by Log Cabin Republicans, there is ample evidence that McCain is no “maverick” on LGBT equality. As an example check out this ad from 2006 promoting an anti-gay constitutional amendment in in Arizona:
Recognize the “wrinkly white-haired dude?” Yeah, that’s John McCain, the same man about whom LCR says:
is an inclusive Republican who is focusing the GOP on unifying core principles that appeal to independent voters.
Apparently that “unifying core principle” is using LGBT people and our families as political wedge issues to appeal to right-wing voters.
McCain is on record as supporting the proposed anti-gay constitutional amendments in Arizona and Florida as well as the amendment that would strip marriage rights away from same-sex couples living in California.
Chris Crain, the blogger and former editor of the Washington Blade who has a more favorable things to say about LCR than some bloggers, eviscerated LCR in a post titled Log Cabin’s Big McCain Mistake.
It’s as if our gay Republican friends forgot the basic politics of the carrot and the stick. Now that McCain and Palin are happily chomping away on the endorsement carrot that Log Cabin could have kept dangling in front of them, all they’re left with is the stick. With apologies to my friends among their number, including my beloved co-blogger Kevin, gay Republicans aren’t exactly known for carrying a big stick.
With the Log Cabin endorsement in hand, the pressure is off Palin to commit either publicly or privately to what some accounts suggest is her “openness to anti-discrimination legislation.” If McCain is elected, inside support from Palin might be the best shot at avoiding a veto of workplace protection, since the “inclusive” senator from Arizona has voted against such legislation multiple times.
McCain has opposed every piece of pro-LGBT legislation that has come his way.
There is nothing “maverick” about that. It is just a lot of “straight talk” that leaves LGBT Americans out in the cold.
Tags: John McCain, LGBT rights, Log Cabin Republicans, Republicans, Sarah Palin, video
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October 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
What an ugly, repelant, red neck, narrow minded, nasty, rotten pice of humanity. Rotten to the core. Homophobia is soley the work of hatred and narrow mindedness. Religion? that would be the ONLY excuse, and the only leg a person would have to stand on. Religion is going to spell the end of the world, if this is what we actually think religion is about. Hatred, seperation and judgement. Its going to TEAR human hind apart.. Love is UNIFIED and knows NO boundarys of sex or race. This is pure SOCIAL programing, and you know it. Grose. Humans are so ugly. If you truly dissagree with Gay people deserving the freedom to love and marry… You no doubt MUST be one of the many emotionally and sprititually ugly humans to waste the space on this earth. Love all, and let all be loved in return. And may we dream that a world exsists, where every human being wil have the right to express that love freely and openly. LOVE rules all…
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 am
One final thought.. Obama wont ever let Gay and Lesbian have the same MARRIAGE act and equality as hetrosexual’s. Oh, of course……. we will get “some” rights… many, i’m sure. But, NOT the same. I repeat… NOT the same.
Its just like saying, black people can get get on a public bus with “white folk”, but yet, they cant actually SIT together-and dare to share the same seat! . God, Been there, done that.
“The same but seperate” policy… is NOT the same.
So, does America actually have a true LGBT leader running for presidency? I think not. Close, but not close enough… If he is elected, we will find out soon enough.
On that thought? Do we actually believe we have transended all race, creed, colour, religion, etc?? enough that a coloured man can actually become president of the united states???? I tell you……… THE WORLD is watching. We will soon see JUST how far we have come as human beings. Unified? or still, ………Seperate.