John McCain: Gays are Welcome to Marry, Just Not Legally

[Bluebear]

McCain on Hardball with Chris Matthews:

"I think gay marriage should be allowed if there's a ceremony kind of thing if you want to call it that. I don't have any problem with that..."

Before your jaw drops too far, McCain went on to say "I think private ceremonies are fine. I do not think gay marriage should be legal."

http://www.towleroad.com/2006/10/john_mccain_gay.html

[JackBeck]

1. I guess he was for them, before he was against them. n/t

[photogirl12]

2. For him I think that thinking should be allowed

Just not legal.

[movonne]

3. I really, really dislike this man...what I thought was a pretty decent

man has turned into bush two....

[onenote]

4. not good enough for me, but too much for the fundies

Also leaves unanswered his position on civil unions. But if people interpret as support for gay unions, he's probably carved out a position that offends the fundies but plays well among the non-fundies in Peoria.

[LondonReign2]

6. He'll never get the repug nomination

Fundies dislike him too much.

He'll never win the Presidency -- that picture says too much.

[rodeodance]

8. he likes to straddle.

[Kahuna]

20. He's a two-headed snake who has always spoken out of both

sides of his mouth. THAT's him. THAT's who he is. THAT's what he does. This is what we need people to understand about him.

[Bluebear]

23. WORD! nt

[Warpy]

5. He's got it exactly backwards, of course

What's needed is access to the body of contract law whereby a non relative is promoted to first degree relative status. Nothing but civil marriage will do that.

The herbal romance and religious baggage are what's optional of "joining ceremonies" are what's optional.

Funny how these loons never get that.

[EFerrari]

22. Yes, he does. Which is par for him. n/t

[spanone]

7. What kind of nonsense gobbeldygook is that?

Sounds like a smart-ass bush* answer to me.

[Marlie]

10. For anyone actually watching the show where he made that statement

The audience of college kids booed the hell out of him for his answer. Tweety had to intercede to quiet the booing. I was so proud of those young people.

[Downtown Hound]

9. McCain Family values

Bush can torture legally. Gays can't marry legally.

[xchrom]

11. mccain is a tapeworm.

[Solly Mack]

12. Politicians that promote prejudice - and attacks on the civil rights of

the GLBT community does promote prejudice and bigotry...should be thrown out of office and barred from ever holding public office again.

Using the GLBT community as a political whipping post is an attack.

[Rex_Goodheart]

13. Government should not be in the marriage business at all.

[Change has come]

14. Does this mean I can pay my taxes

with Monopoly kind of paper?

[Disturbed]

16. John McCain Hypocrite

John McCain Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[tsuki]

15. Ah, Duh. Gays have ALWAYS been able to be married. I know

several couples that are married. The problem is that it is not legal.

[TechBear_Seattle]

17. Marriage is a legal status, not a ceremony

No matter what the ignoramouses belief.

[Lex]

21. EXACTLY. "Private ceremonies" are fine, but until legal meaning

is attached, a "private ceremony" could just as well be the wave of a magic Barbie wand or something.

The legal benefits, and obligations too, of any other marriage are necessary.

[WI_DEM]

18. Where was this event held? I hope the audience booed him

[bluedog]

19. hope someone is keeping a record

of all the crap coming out of his mouth.......It'll help in the 08 elections.