Cindy McCain reverses stance on DADT repeal

[terrya]

Keith Olbermann mentioned this last night during his segment with Dan Choi about DADT repeal. 24 hours earlier, she appeared in a great NOH8 video about anti-bullying. In the video, she talks about how discrimination like DADT contributes to bullying. Well, now she supports her husband in his support of bigotry and discrimination re: DADT. And I agree with John Aravosis...her footage should be excised from the video immediately. She's no friend of our community.


Yesterday, Cindy McCain - the wife of US Senator John McCain - released a video in which she criticized the US government "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," policy, and suggested that it gave bullies an incentive to bash gay youth, who then try to kill themselves.

CINDY MCCAIN:


Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future.
They can't serve our country openly.
VARIETY OF SPEAKERS:

What's worse, these laws that legislate discrimination teach bullies that what they're doing is acceptable.
CINDY MCCAIN:

Our government treats the LGBT community like second class citizens, why shouldn't they?
Today, Cindy McCain is suddenly tweeting how pro-DADT she is (clearly, her homophobic husband, who is leading the charge on trying to filibuster the effort to repeal DADT, got to her). Which means, of course, that by her own words she now thinks she is responsible for gay kids committing suicide.

http://gay.americablog.com/2010/11/cindy-mccan-is-hater-reverses-self-on.html

[crim son]

1. I wondered how she was able to keep peace at home

after publicly behaving like a real human being.

[Ian David]

3. We'll probably see her arm in a sling again. n/t

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[Duncan Grant]

11. I'm not the LGBT forum "mom" but this hits me as misogynistic.

I'm going to make an appeal that we spin the discourse up, rather than down.

I think Cindy McCain is an ally. The same forces that are oppressing LGBT people have now muscled Cindy McCain back into line. Homophobia is like that.

Seems to me we should be reading between the lines, don't you think?

[anachro1]

19. This is 2010

Either she stands up for herself or she don't.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. WTF? Cindy McCain? What is she to this issue (besides rich?)

Who cares what she says?

[polmaven]

5. I think the fact

that she was publicly opposing her husband's stance was very important, as is the apparent fact that she has been told to STFU.

[Duncan Grant]

12. +1

:thumbsup:

[terrya]

7. It would be nice to frame anti-bullying and pro-GLBT equality as bipartisan

Theodore Olson has done that nicely with marriage equality. He has said that the right to same-sex marriage should be an issue of fairness. Regardless of party affliation, regardless of ideology.

And that's why it would have been nice for someone like Cindy McCain, a Republican, to make that point.

But, well, in her case, that's inoperative.

[terrya]

8. dupe

[Iggo]

9. Cindy McCain is about to get a sore crotch...

...from all that fence straddling.

[niyad]

10. she is the one with the money, yet she has to bow to his commands? verrrrry interesting.

[radhika]

13. This amazes me too!

He'd be sitting at the curb in front of one of the 8 houses my inheritance paid for.

[QC]

14. Does she have a black eye today?

It wouldn't surprise me.

[True_Blue]

17. Me either

McCain has a real nasty temper.

[keepCAblue]

15. That leaves Meghan as the only one in the family with any spine. n/t

[jberryhill]

16. Was her drug supply cut off?

Asking for consistency from a junkie is a lot.

[anachro1]

18. No on H8 indeed...

I felt infuriated when I saw this inconsequential old woman with tape over her mouth on the No on H8 campaign.

Why REALLY believes that she believed what she was standing up for?
We are being "played" by Republicans.