So McCain's adultery in the military isn't relevant but the sex lives of gay service members are?

[babylonsister]

http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/so-mccains-adultery-in-military-isnt.html

So McCain's adultery in the military isn't relevant but the sex lives of gay service members are?
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/11/2008


When John McCain had his adulterous affair with Cindy, he was an officer in the military. Adultery is against military rules. Just like having gay relationships is against the rules. Why is McCain's illicit sex life as an officer not relevant but McCain thinks the "illicit" sex lives of gay service members are? Both are violations of the rules. (Oh, and if you think the adultery isn't proven, read below.)

Yes, I know, my friends in the corporate media, it makes you woozy having to deal with anything "negative" about your good friend John McCain. But he's running for president, and he deserves a bit more scrutiny than you bringing him his favorite donuts. So, again, why is McCain's sex life in the military off limits but the sex life of gay service members is very much on limits per John McCain? Is McCain going to argue that his adultery didn't affect morale and cohesion, but gay relationships do? McCain was a pretty famous POW. He met Nixon. His campaign is always telling us what a military leader he was. His fall from grace certainly would have been noticed by fellow members of the military, and that has the potential to affect morale and cohesion when a leader falls.

And there's another problem. I'm not sure about this one, but I'm going to guess that in the 1970s, bigamy wasn't allowed under military rules either. From the LA Times:

McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.

Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.

Again, I get it. You folks in the media like John McCain. That doesn't change the fact that lots of Americans, the very Americans on the right who John McCain is courting, have a serious problem with both adultery and bigamy. McCain can't woo the religious right and then pretend that his lack of adherence to their values is not relevant to this campaign. Talk to anyone on the religious right and they'll tell you: Adultery is a big deal to them. And I can only imagine how they feel about bigamy.

[Kokonoe]

1. Let me interupt this message.

Thank You babylonsister, carry on.

[babylonsister]

2. He makes a very good point, doesn't he, one I hadn't considered. nt

[bunnies]

3. That is a damn good question.

I'd LOVE to here Johnny McManWhore's answer to that one. k&r

[zbdent]

4. Republicans would rather have someone who couldn't hit a table with a handgrenade

if it was chained to it, than a gay sharpshooter who could knock the eyelash off a gnat at 1000 yards ...

[blondeatlast]

5. When utter hypocrisy, flexible ethics, "holier than thou" morals, and one man's

sense of entitlement to the presidency mix I lose all respect for private lives being private. He chose his career path knowing that he'd be continually covering up ethical messes and moral hypocrisy on a grand scale. It's fair game in his case and if the media won't cover it, we must.

For those of us who choose not to be ethically/morally hypocritical, I say my neighbor's life is off-limits. McCrepit chose this path, though, let him find his way off of it. :mad:

[TexasObserver]

6. Adultery is a punishable offense for a military officer.

But not John McCain.

[AndyTiedye]

7. There are Different Rules if You Have the Right Parents, Even in the Military

ask our pResident.

[TexasObserver]

8. always!!

If his father had not been an Admiral, McCain would never have been in the Naval Academy or a Navy officer.

[AndyTiedye]

9. And Even If He Had, He Would Have Been Court-Marshaled For Starting That Fire

http://liberalscumbuster.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/john-mccain-was-a-young-hot-dog-pilot-in-vietnam/

[TexasObserver]

11. yep

[Thothmes]

12. He retired 18 months later

Who is to say this did not scotch his promotion to Rear Admiral.

[indepat]

10. Adultery is a big deal to the RR when not one of their own

:P