UPDATED: Things must have gotten REALLY hot in the McCain household. Now Cindy McCain claims she still supports DADT notwithstanding her unequivocal statements in the video in this post. Perhaps she needs to remind her husband that while he's the Senator, she's the one with the serious money, not him. Invoke the "golden rule" if you will.
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Conversations must be interesting around the McCain household what with Meghan McCain supporting gay marriage and now Cindy McCain joining in a NoH8 Campaign's Anti-Bullying PSA and in the process slamming DADT. Sadly, unlike these strong women in his family, John McSenile continues to kiss the bigoted asses of the homophobes and Christianist even though most detest him. As Towleroad reports (and as can be seen below) Cindy McCain specifically mentions DADT in her portion of the PSA. Would that there were more conservatives that would face the fact that religious tradition has no place in the civil laws in a nation that claims to guarantee freedom of religion for all of its citizens. These highlights from Towleroad:*
The NoH8 campaign has just put out an anti-bullying PSA highlighting a range of topics contributing to the way gay and lesbian youth are perceived by their peers, including religion-based bigotry, the disciminatory ban on blood donation by gay men, marriage inequality, and bans on gay adoption.
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Notable is Cindy McCain speaking out about gays not being able to serve openly in the military considering her husband is perhaps the biggest impediment in the U.S. Senate to getting the ban lifted. McCain has threatened a filibuster if DADT is attached to the Defense authorization bill, and was recently reported to be trying to make a deal to strip the DADT provision from the bill.
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Kudos to Cindy McCain. Here's the video (McCain first appears at about the 0.52 minute mark):
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