First, Vice President Dick Cheney said same-sex marriage should be left to the states.
Then, Massachusetts’ new Sen. Scott Brown said the same.
Now, the McCain women refuse to be anti-gay, with Sen. John McCain’s wife, Cindy, and his daughter, Meghan, actively opposing California’s Catholic, fundamentalist Christian, and Mormon backed anti-gay ballot proposition, which singled out homosexuals and prohibited them from marriage. Cindy and Meghan McCain are supporting the campaign to overturn that terrible law. In my 1999 interview with the Arizona senator during his 2000 presidential campaign, Sen. McCain steadfastly opposed applying certain rights to gays.
With Obama and the Democrats now the party of the status quo, stubbornly opposing gays in the military, which even former chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican, now supports, and pointedly sanctioning anti-gay Christian crusader Rev. Rick Warren, one wonders whether the GOP is becoming the party of separating religion and state while the Dems continue to preach putting religion in government. I warned that the Obama administration was opposed to the rights of gays last year in this blog post, and pointed out in my movie review of the excellent motion picture, Milk, that it was an elected orthodox Catholic Democrat, not a so-called ‘wingnut’ Republican, that assassinated the San Francisco gay activist.
And it was the late Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, a Republican not a Democrat, who passionately endorsed individual rights for gays, including allowing gays to serve in the military, before he died. Sen. Goldwater, the party’s 1964 presidential nominee, was also pro-choice on abortion and he opposed mixing religion and state. Apparently, the wife and daughter of the man who holds Goldwater’s seat in the Senate do, too.
