Doesn't she realize that a core tenet of conservative philosophy is that, because the Constitution was designed to defend the rights of individuals, it has no business with group rights? The Constitution guarantees equal rights to all individual citizens equally, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, etc., etc. Gays are fully entitled to all such protections already. They are not entitled to any additional rights by virtue of their voluntary membership in a particular group.
The question boils down to: Is marriage a "civil right?" It has never been regarded as such in all of American history. Ms. McCain, a question: Why should we regard it as such now? And what could the source of that right be? It wouldn't be found anywhere in the Constitution.
If Ms. McCain nevertheless considers it is such, then she has to explain from whence this "right to marry" comes. It's not in the Constitution, so it can only be a grant of a (constitutionally illegitimate) State. (The State would be constitutionally illegitimate in the very act of granting such a right. The Framers were adament: Human rights are grants of God, not the State.)
Obviously, Ms. McCain is not a conservative. Nor is her father, for that matter. But if what she is saying passes for Republican Party philosophy these days, then I'd have to change my party affiliation to Unenrolled (Independent).
Perhaps Ms. McCain would think that a salutory development. Evidently she is ashamed and embarrassed by conservatives and is happy to throw them under the bus. Perhaps she thinks the GOP will get more political bang for its buck by pandering to the Plethos. (Of which she appears to be a card-carrying member.)
Well, JMHO FWIW.
Thanks for the post, 2ndDivisionVet!
>>>”Sometimes, gay Republicans are regarded in the same vein as ‘Jews for Hitler,’ but my father garnered nearly 28 percent of the gay vote in the last election,” McCain wrote.<<<<
I don’t know this woman, but I already find her distasteful and disgusting. The National Socialists sought the death of the Jews, by torture and cruelty, by government decree. Conservatives simply want people to be left alone to live their own lives - and I’ve never run across any conservative, Republican, or right-winger who has called for any violence or meanness toward any gay person, ever. She’s a sick puppy.
We need to nip this in the bud pronto by letting the "powers that be" in the GOP know without any doubt that Megan is a "not ready for primetime" non-starter whom we TOTALLY reject. Otherwise in four or eight years, she will be the Republican party standard bearer, the "face" of the new Republican Party who we must get behind and elect or else sit down and shut up. By then it will be too late.
One liberal Mccainiac is enough.