McCain Would Criminalize Gays

[HenryReardon]

It remains a strange phenomenon that so many gay guys on this board and outside would consider voting for McCain and just ignore, not only his anti-gay positions, but the fact that he would appoint Supreme Court judges, who would effectively criminalize gay as soon as they were in the majority.

Alito and Roberts-type judges have the same anti-gay agenda as Justice Scalia (from his dissenting judgement in Lawrence v. Texas, which protects consensual adult sex):



I guess some people won't get it until the police start raiding the local gay bars again. Fun, fun, fun.

Talk about fear-mongering! You just moved to the head of the class with that nonsense.

 

[snapcat]

Huckabee is very effective at communicating to the people in an easy to understand fashion. I actually kind of like him, personally, although I oppose most of his politics.

 

[Spensed]

Obviously, protecting and advancing gay civil rights isn't the only thing that matters.

But it's an important one and one that impacts individuals directly, if you're at the receiving end of the crap, from not being able to adopt children in certain states to your significant other having immigration problems straight couples don't have.

It also tells you where the candidate and the party is coming from on minority and privacy protection generally.

Obama is far from perfect on gay rights, but he leaves McCain standing in the dust.

It may be one situation to prioritize gay civil rights behind economic advantage or security concerns or whatever.

But, as can be seen from this thread, many pro-McCainites just aren't well enough informed on the issue especially as it relates to the very real and long lasting dangers of an anti-gay Supreme Court.

 

[MCsNo1Fn]

Go ahead and vote for another Republican if you don't give a shit about gay people.

Wow. That was rather uncalled for.

 

[NickCole]

One of Obama's mentors is one of his college professors who is gay. I dunno how much of that story is true (since it's all hearsay and speculation) but it certainly doesn't coincide with the fact that his gay professor is specifically cited as being influential in his life and career.

That was more than 20 years ago. (Between then and now there's been Reverend Wright, etc.) Who're are the gay people who play a significant role in his personal or professional life today?

Today, McCain's Chief of Staff is gay.

I'm not sure what that says of either candidate, but McCain sure doesn't come out worse in it.

 

[Spensed]

^ Ah yes, you mean this gay Chief of Staff:

http://www.blogactive.com/2008/09/john-mccains-chief-of-staff-wins-roy.html

 

[NickCole]

^ Ah yes, you mean this gay Chief of Staff:

http://www.blogactive.com/2008/09/john-mccains-chief-of-staff-wins-roy.html

Gays ridiculing gays for not being gay in the right way.

Roy Cohn Award. Cute.

"Unity and Hope" the Obama way.

 

[Spensed]

^ Not for "not being gay in the right way", but for working for a legislator, who opposes so many pro-gay issues.

 

[snapcat]

I think the term we're searching for is "aiding & abetting."

 

[Kulindahr]

I think the term we're searching for is "aiding & abetting."

As opposed to "dating and a-bedding".

 

[Spensed]

Obama's pro-gay record and agenda has been well documented by the Human Rights Campaign and others.

It remains important to focus on that and that McCain/Pain would be so much worse in terms of appointing anti-gay judges to the Supreme Court and opposing pro-gay advances like adoption.

That's the context in which to consider whether or not Obama should intervene in the anti-gay State propositions.

All the anti-Obama spin about throwing gays under buses is partisan hogwash.