McCain, Ellen and Marriage Equality
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During his fundraising swing through California, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain found time to make an appearance on "The Ellen Degeneres Show." During the segment, Ellen wittingly goaded McCain into a conversation about same-sex marriage rights and her personal plans to marry her partner this summer.
At one point, she jokingly asks McCain if he would walk her down the aisle. LOL. McCain, obviously uncomfortable, reiterated their respectful disagreement over the issue and expressed his support for legal rights for same-sex partners for the purposes of health insurance and other family decision-making.
Props to Ellen for making McCain sit there and listen to a personal plea for marriage equality and the dissatisfaction with the separate and unequal rationale of those who seek to deny certain loving couples the right to wedded bliss.
Of course this comes on the same day the Prop 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a legal maneuver with the California Supreme Court asking it in effect, to hold off the validity of same-sex marriage until after the November 3rd general elections.
The strategic legal maneuver seeks to hold off summer weddings because they do not want to be in the un-American position of campaigning for a ballot initiative which seeks to take away a constitutional right many Californians will be enjoying by that time.
Thankfully, many legal observers think the state high court is unlikely to grant such an injunction.
Still, those of us who believe in equal rights have lots of hard work ahead of us. A new statewide poll conducted by the LA Times and KTLA show that a majority of registered voters favor the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by a margin of 54% to 35%.
Its very early and neither of the competing campaigns have begun their work in earnest so expect those poll numbers to change between now and Election Day. The poll points to one major glimmer of hope on the horizon.
Registered voters under the age of 45, are much less likely to favor the upcoming discriminating ballot proposition. With Sen. Barack Obama likely on the ballot as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, expect lots of voters under the age of 45 at the polls as he has consistently pulled them to the voting booth in record numbers during the course of this arduous Democratic primary season.
At one point, she jokingly asks McCain if he would walk her down the aisle. LOL. McCain, obviously uncomfortable, reiterated their respectful disagreement over the issue and expressed his support for legal rights for same-sex partners for the purposes of health insurance and other family decision-making.
Props to Ellen for making McCain sit there and listen to a personal plea for marriage equality and the dissatisfaction with the separate and unequal rationale of those who seek to deny certain loving couples the right to wedded bliss.
Of course this comes on the same day the Prop 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a legal maneuver with the California Supreme Court asking it in effect, to hold off the validity of same-sex marriage until after the November 3rd general elections.
The strategic legal maneuver seeks to hold off summer weddings because they do not want to be in the un-American position of campaigning for a ballot initiative which seeks to take away a constitutional right many Californians will be enjoying by that time.
Thankfully, many legal observers think the state high court is unlikely to grant such an injunction.
Still, those of us who believe in equal rights have lots of hard work ahead of us. A new statewide poll conducted by the LA Times and KTLA show that a majority of registered voters favor the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by a margin of 54% to 35%.
Its very early and neither of the competing campaigns have begun their work in earnest so expect those poll numbers to change between now and Election Day. The poll points to one major glimmer of hope on the horizon.
Registered voters under the age of 45, are much less likely to favor the upcoming discriminating ballot proposition. With Sen. Barack Obama likely on the ballot as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, expect lots of voters under the age of 45 at the polls as he has consistently pulled them to the voting booth in record numbers during the course of this arduous Democratic primary season.