Oh my, this is fun. The Peter is horrified that John McCain plans to meet with the Log Cabin Republicans — as if the Arizona senator is some sort of pro-homosexual/homosexualist Trojan horse.
CBS News chief political consultant Mark Ambinder, associate editor of TheAtlantic.com, reports that McCain plans to meet soon with executives of the Log Cabin Republicans.As the article references Marc Ambinder’s post at The Atlantic, see how he describes McCain’s position on LGBT issues below the fold.LaBarbera, founder of the website Republicans for Family Values, says McCain should dump those plans. “I think this is significant. It was significant when George Bush … met with the Log Cabin Federation before he became president — and it doesn’t surprise me that McCain is doing it. I think the danger is that when you try to be pro-homosexual and pro-family at the same time, it doesn’t work,” LaBarbera contends.
According to LaBarbera, McCain would be wise to distance himself from a group that “spews anti-Christian bigotry.” That group’s crusade in favor of homosexual “marriage,” he argues, goes counter to the efforts of pro-family advocates who are fighting to protect marriage with constitutional amendments at the state and federal level.
“So, it becomes difficult for John McCain to say he’s supporting efforts to protect marriage and also supporting the Log Cabin Republicans,” LaBarbera points out. “I just think this is the problem with the ‘big tent’ [philosophy] in general in the Republican Party.”
I wonder how the LCRs can moon over McCain when he’s so spotty on LGBT civil rights.
McCain opposes gay marriage, is against relaxing the ban on gays in the military and campaigned against a ballot measure that would have permitted civil unions in Arizona.Huh?? He doesn’t use LGBT issues as wedge issues?But he has expressed support for allowing gays to hold “ceremonies” expressing their partnerships, opposes a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and has displayed his irritation with Republicans efforts to stir up anti-homosexual resentments for politically expedient purposes.
A self-described Goldwater Republican, McCain has also expressed sympathy for legislation that would allow gay partners hospital visitation rights and other reciprocal benefits generally reserved for straight couples.
…[H]e sees no reason to meet with James Dobson, the president of Focus on the Family (although Dobson has said he has no intention of voting for McCain and has privately told associates that he personally dislikes him), or with Rush Limbaugh (although that may change.)
“I believe that the institution of marriage should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman, said Sen. McCain. The Protect Marriage Arizona Amendment would allow the people of Arizona to decide on the definition of marriage in our state. I wholeheartedly support the Protect Marriage Arizona Amendment and I hope that the voters in Arizona choose to support it as well.”That section above that I bolded — was Ambinder smoking something? Remember, McCain is the tool who sent a letter to SLDN calling gays an “intolerable risk to morale, cohesion and discipline.”
– John McCain in 2005, supporting Protect Marriage Arizona’s ballot initiative (that eventually failed at the polls).
Mr. Straight Talk’s campaign also said that he has no intention of asking to “soften” the Republican party’s platform on same-sex marriage to appeal to more voters.
The Arizona senator has not denounced the over-the-top homophobia of his buddy, Patriot Pastor Rod Parsley.
LCRs explain to me how McCain does anything to move the GOP back to the center when they still feel the need to get in bed with the bible-beating bigots.“This so-called hate crimes legislation would preferred status to people based on entirely on who they choose as a sexual partner. What if they change their mind the next night!”
“Why is marriage under attack?!…Why is the family coming under such brutal attack from the forces of darkness…”
“I will lift my voice against THE AGENDA of America’s tortured and angry homosexual population…”
“In essence the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 2003, legalized the perverted act of sodomy. And we said nothing…”
“This is not about homosexual rights or lesbian rights…this is about THE DESTRUCTION of the VERY COVENANT (organ music rises up in the background as he waves his finger desperately) They are seeking to “redefine” marriage. In other words, they are intending to PERVERT God’s original intention!”
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Hate to break it to you, but if McCain went whole-hog-get-hitched on the gay, i’d still vote against him. Twice.
serena, what do you have against Gramps McCain? He’s a total centrist maverick. I know because the media tells me so, and because every so often he stands up and meekly supports something the president doesn’t. And you know when push comes to shove he courageously backs down every time. He was against “agents of intolerance” before he was for them.
Translation: “I think the danger is that when you try to be fair and discriminatory at the same time, it doesn’t work”
It’s a little like the waffling semi-choice democratic politicians, who say they’re against abortion personally but won’t work to outlaw it. By not saying that queers need to be put in hormone-treatment and re-education camps for their own good, McCain is indeed to the left of some parts of the GOP on this. He’s in bed with the bible-beating bigots, but he uses a condom.
My favorite part is that he has no objection gays holding ceremonies to express their relationships, just to those ceremonies having any legal significance whatsoever.
Oh my goodness! I had no idea that he was so sympathetic to the cause! You mean he’s ok with gays having ceremonies that mean nothing legally, and that there’s no way the government could stop anyway? Well, let me just bask in the warmth of his support to the movement.
What patronizing bullshit. I didn’t know I could like him less, but that sentence did it.
You know, they might be less angry if you’d stop torturing them.
It seems pretty clear at this point that McCain’s general election strategy is going to have a serious component of trying to make himself appear to be a centrist and blur the differences between Republican and Democrat. We see this in his (strictly relative) movement toward the Log Cabin Republicans, and in his adoption of a left-wing mantle on global warming and environmental issues.
Openleft has a post on the global warming bit this morning:
(Note the tiny flag at the end indicating McCain is going to be trying to run as if the Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility, one assumes on the grounds that well never mind the last eight years and the war, the Democrats want to spend federal money on health care.)
This is one of the few blogs that has the sense to talk about McBush. Huffington had a report on his tax returns and I have been surprised to see little comment on it thus far.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/mccain-tax-returns-latest_n_97424.html
“His income included his Senate salary of $161,708, a Navy pension of $58,358 and Social Security income of $23,157.”
So, he gets 23K from Social Security. How many Americans work and earn less than that!?
He also gets 58k from his Navy pension. How many more Americans work and earn less than that?
Oh, that McBush is just one of the guys.
More on McBush’s tax returns.
“McCain reported paying $136,572 in wages to household employees in 2007. Aides say the McCains pay for a caretaker for a cabin in Sedona, Ariz., child care for their teenage daughter, and a personal assistant for Cindy McCain.”
So, that averages out to 45k per person for three employees. So much the better for them. But how many in America can afford such expenses.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080418/mccain-taxes/
McBombBombBomb, Bomb Bomb Iran doesn’t need to make any money. He’s only in the Senate because the establishment Republicans who wanted the seat in Arizona pried him out of shell shock and infidelity to marry Cindy Anheuser-Busch.
Also? Elitist is just code for gay.
OH sweet. I was worried I’d have to come out to my parents as gay, but now I can just tell them I’m ‘elitist.’
So out of $240K in earned income, they pay $136K to household employees? Just how many rooms does that “cabin” have that it needs a fulltime caretaker? Is that like the “cottages” in Newport RI?
Putting all those expenses on his income suggests that the McCains are playing some very interesting tax games with Cindy McCain’s dividends from $100M+ in holdings. No wonder they didn’t want to release her returns.
Sophist FCD beat me to it:
stop torturing them!!!
i reallyreallyreallyreally hate the xenophobia that is trying to take over our county. or rather, HAS taken over huge sweeps of it
If McCain was really a Goldwater Republican, he’d be against “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
When asked about gays in the military, Goldwater once said, “You don’t have to be straight to be in the military, just shoot straight”
Goldwater also said, “I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass”
Goldwater was also proudly pro-choice.
Goldwater also gave this little speech.
Unfortunately, McCain isn’t as much of a Goldwater Republican as he should be.