Is it the middle of November already? Here’s a new open thread to start off the week.
Cindy McCain takes aim at “political and religious leaders”
While John McCain continues to fight a repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, his wife, Cindy McCain, seems just as determined to help the other side. Of course John McCain has done a flip flop on this issue, like many others when he decided he wasn’t quite conservative enough to win re-election to his senate seat without a major make-over.
According to Politico.com:
“Our government treats the LGBT community like second class citizens,” the senator’s wife says later in the video.
Though Cindy McCain has spoken out on behalf of gay rights in the past, the video still came as a surprise to some gay rights activists.
“I’m astonished and impressed as hell,” John Aravosis wrote on Americablog Gay. “The woman basically accused her husband of sharing the blame for gay kids killing themselves.”
Cindy McCain previously appeared in the NOH8 campaign, which opposed California’s gay-marriage ban.
John McCain is traveling overseas this week and his press secretary could not be reached immediately for comment.
What must it be like at the McCain dinner table these days? Cindy works for equality for gals and young Ms. Meghan McCain works for The Daily Beast and is about as moderate of a Republican as one can get and still be considered a Republican.
Young gays have the highest rate of suicide in the nation. It is easy to understand why when one considers the messages they hear from our churches and politicians. Do these messages increase the bullying that happens to these young people?
