McCain endorses California marriage amendment, Log Cabin Republicans feel rejected
A political move? A flip-flop? Likely a little of both, and sadly yet another reason it is tough to really get excited by McCain. Of course the article is a bit unfair in its wording too. It looks like McCain STILL supports the right of the people to decide, the Log Cabin Reoublicans just disagree, with the possiblity that the people of California MIGHT just might make a choice they do not care for.My personal feelings about Gay marriage is simple, it should be a state decision. If the people of California support amending THEIR state constitution to dfefine marriage, that ought to be their right.
To me, marriage IS, and should be, between a man and a woman, but, again, I also accept that states ought to reserve the right to define it as their people want. Yes, I realize fully well, that we are dealing with a slippery slope, and that some groups will someday want marriages between three or more people legitimized.
John McCain’s position on California’s marriage amendment has officially switched from supporting the voters’ right to define marriage as they see fit to endorsing efforts to prohibit same-sex marriage by amending the state’s constitution, according to a statement by the Log Cabin Republicans.
ProtectMarriage.com, the group leading the charge to constitutionally ban gay marriage in California via a ballot measure, published the following statement from the McCain campaign on its website last Thursday: “I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we did in my home state of Arizona. I do not believe judges should be making these decisions.” The wording varies from the campaign’s original statement following the state supreme court’s May decision to legalize gay marriage, which asserted that McCain supported “the right of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution sanctioning the union between a man and a woman…”
Conservative organizations such the Christian Broadcasting Network wasted no time hailing the new statement as an endorsement of the antimarriage amendment. But until Tuesday, Log Cabin representatives said the campaign itself had neither confirmed nor denied that the Arizona senator had in fact changed his position from neutrality to active support.
A statement released Tuesday by the Log Cabin Republicans read, “Late last week, the group pushing California’s antimarriage constitutional amendment released an e-mail from a McCain staffer saying the senator backed the amendment. We now have confirmation that this represents the senator’s view.”
