Palin Breaks With McCain
Not, sadly, completely - a totally shattered Republican ticket would be more entertaining to watch than the shambles they currently present - but on the subject of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
When the idea last reared its head in 2004, John McCain said, in the Senate:
“The constitutional amendment we’re debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans,” McCain said. “It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them.”
Palin, on the other hand, thinks that would be a good thing:
“I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that’s where we would go because I don’t support gay marriage,” Palin said.
She goes on to make noises about ‘traditional’ definitions of marriage and all the usual nonsense.
Story here.
But don’t forget she has friends who are gay, and she tolerates the heck out of them. So she can’t possibly be the screaming right-wing bigoted religious nutter she comes across as, can she?
This is yet another example of the bizarre strand of people across the world who appear not to have a problem with giving gay relationships equal legal status as long as under no circumstances are we allowed to use the word ‘marriage’ to describe them. Seriously, why is that word so sacred to some otherwise quite sensible people and Sarah Palin.?