McCain Shifts Back Against Gay Adoption

[tekisui]

On Sunday, in an ABC This Week interview with George Stephanopoulos, Senator John McCain put to rest any doubts he is against gay adoption.

“My position is: It's not the reason why I'm running for president of the United States; I'm running for president of the United States because I want to help with family values,” McCain said. “And I think that family values are important, when we have two parent – families that are of parents that are the traditional family.”

“But there are several hundred thousand children in the country who don't have a home. And if a gay couple want to adopt them, what's wrong with that?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“I am for the values that two parent families, the traditional family represents,” McCain answered.

Earlier, McCain campaign aide Jill Hazelbaker backtracked on statements against gay adoption McCain made in a New York Times interview. “...as an adoptive father himself... he recognizes that there are many abandoned children who have yet to find homes. McCain believes in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative,” she said.

McCain's initial remarks caused an uproar from gay groups. Pro-gay group PFLAG – whose sole mission is to support families – took offense at McCain's remarks: “...Senator McCain would deny loving homes to children who desperately need them simply because of an outdated prejudice about what a family may look like,” said Jody M. Huckaby, executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) in a prepared statement.

But conservative groups cried foul at Hazelbaker's clarification. “There is nothing 'straight talking' about the McCain campaign's response to the Senator's statements on homosexual adoption. I hope he's able to get everyone on his staff on the right side of the road,” said Tony Perkins, President of the conservative Family Research Council in an email to CBN News.

link: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=2098&MediaType=1&Category=26


He is in disagreement with his own campaign! And, WTF, with this quote: "I'm running for president of the United States because I want to help with family values". He doesn't have a leg to stand on.

[movonne]

1. I wonder if he is the one to be speaking for family values...what

a asshole...he will say or do anything to become president...

[fortyfeetunder]

2. He wants to help with FAMILY VALUES?

:rofl:

He is the last one who should go there.

Guess family values applies to how he treated his first wife and their children while he was off chasing a potential trophy wife....

[Muttocracy]

7. oh you should hear him "traditional family values... traditional families"

it's creepy, and yeah, extra ironic.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Family values, like dumping the old sick wife for the rich face lift bimbo..

[GOPNotForMe]

4. Why did Stephanopolous let him get away with that?

Why not ask "What do you define as 'family values'?" or "You can call a two-parent home with straight couples optimal if you wish, but that doesn't answer the question of why gay adoption should be ILLEGAL." UGH I hate faux-reporters (which is most of them!).

[BlooInBloo]

5. Self-answering question.

[GOPNotForMe]

6. Sadly true. nt

[Muttocracy]

8. So how does he feel about the Cheney family

:hide:

[anonymous171]

No. He flip-flopped.

[Cha]

9. Snidely Whiplash has spoken..and he sounds

like a fuckin' idiot who has dreams of a zealous repuke base gotv for him on Nov 4th.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Yup, he is in Dreamland....he is wrong to think victory in Nov, just as he was wrong to goad Obama

into a 10 Nation Road Trip.....

McWrong still don't get it....Obama has prepared for this Oval Office attempt and he did not...violating the BSA's motto....

for that neglect...the odds to win is dismally low...so low as to discourage all but the Delusional and/or brainwashed...