Palin Breaks With McCain On Gay Marriage Ban
(CBS)
(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) - In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, Sarah Palin signaled her support for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, a position that John McCain once described as “antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans.”
“I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage,” Palin said.
“I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.”
When the federal marriage amendment was being debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his party’s leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.
"The constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans," McCain said. "It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."
Gay marriage isn’t the only issue on which Palin and McCain have expressed differences of opinion. They have also diverged on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, global warming, cross-border raids into Pakistan, and whether abortion should be permitted in cases of rape and incest.
In a joint interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, McCain portrayed their differences of opinion on ANWR in a positive light.
“Did you expect two mavericks to agree on—to agree on everything?” he asked.
Though she has criticized Obama for his position on late-term abortion, Palin has lately kept the focus on the Democrat’s tax plan, which she has said contains elements of socialism. Look for her to continue to hammer the Democrats on the economy as she campaigns across Colorado on Monday.
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See all 156 CommentsSarah Palin, somewhere in Alaska there is a moose calling your name. Time to go now.
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No, sure sounds like you are.
Typical hypocrite.
are the American Taliban. "Onward Christian Soldiers..."
Also, would like to hear her definition of socialism, probably never heard the term before last week!
* She helped kill a ballot initiative that would have blocked a massive new gold and copper mine from being built near the world''s most productive wild salmon fishery.
* She challenged the listing of the polar bear and Cook Inlet beluga whale as endangered species. The listings might have threatened the state''s oil and gas industry.
* Her administration helped kill a bill banning water pollution near where fish spawn.
* She started a committee to address global warming. But with oil companies contributing the largest percentage of the state''s greenhouse gases, her committee set no goal for reducing emissions. Unlike other states, Alaska''s climate change priority is focused on ways to adapt to warmer temperatures.
Now, all that asphalt (from new strip malls along the lake) sends storm water rushing into the city''s creeks and lakes, along with occasional garbage. Scientists have noted diseased salmon and excessive levels of bacteria, petroleum and sediment in the water.
So it drives me a bit nuts for people to act as if McCain is totally against banning marriage equality. As it gets more and more equal, he inidcated that he will get more and more banny!
Pardon me, but it appears from your post that remedial education should be the first step toward cleaning up America.
When a Vice President is not in sinc with the President who is running you have to evaluate both.
Thanks you just help me further make up my mind the GOP has no direction.
Vote them all out of office, oh wait the wave may just do that.
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It is Republican code meant to differentiate the "average" American from the wine sipping, cheese nibbling "elites" that they claim make up the bulk of the Democratic party.
stop with these RULES---follow the principles of love and freedom.
And on a completely legal standpoint, if the civil effort is successful in keeping *** from marrying, then comes the next one:
The Religious Right to Marry!
Think it''s funny? Think again...
Gay''s having been thrown out of their churches, have founded their own churches, and will be claiming the right to marry on religious grounds.
And you know what... now that they have a defacto separate religion because of their disenfranchisement: They Are Right.
Marriage, is part of a religious lifestyle. And Gay people will get that right based on the constitutional right to free religion.
It''s going to be an interesting 10 years.
Can i just say that the word Jihad is used by uneducated people WAY too much. A jihad is an inner struggle one may have over their personal faith.
Some may imply that Obama is a muslin, but considering that Islam is a religion and NOT An ETHNICITY! then no, Obama does not practice the muslim religion.
I wish the United States made it mandatory that for anyone to vote they needed at the very least a high school diploma.
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Dibs977, I never said I agreed with the statement. It is a real twist of Irony that the party that represents the interests of the rich and affluent, has been able to paint the party of the working class as elitist.
Otherwise, as a white person I am tired of being descriminated against and I am going to start a protest about my inability to call myself a black man. Its an argument over the definition of a word.
If you don''t like the definition make your own word up, quit trying to make everyone change to suit yourself.
Secondly, being gay is genetic and not something that you can change.
Finally, the bible (which is written by man and extremely dated) has a lot of passages that people like you choose to ignore. Do you eat shellfish? Do you ever work on Sunday? These are two additional examples of abominations according to the bible. Do you have multiple wives? Do you own slaves? These things are acceptable according to the bible.
It''s time to educate yourself instead of remaining (and sounding)ignorant about this issue based on what you''ve always heard from conservative, right-wing organizations and politicians who are promoting their own agenda.
The Consitituation is about equal rights for all and the basis of Christianity is about love and acceptance!
I understand the media frenzy, after the seemingly endless silence, to get Palin''s own words out there, but the country would be better served now by media restraint rather than media spin.
She didn''t say she supports a ban on gay marriage. She said:
%u201CI''m not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can''t do, should and should not do.."
Sounds very inclusive and tolerant to me. Any American can express their opinion and vote according to their conscience. A politically correct dictatorship would still be a dictatorship.
Palin said:
"...but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that''s casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage..."
So wouldn''t *** do the same for gay marriage?
I think the story here is that Palin lives what she believes and respects others right to do the same.
Posted by Mosfett211 at 02:45 PM : Oct 20, 2008
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So, according to your definition, my father should not have been able to marry a post-menopausal woman after my mother died, because no children would come from the marriage.
though it''s hard to find room in your small minds to think a naturally born gay men and women cannot procreate are simply fed the wrong information
idea''s like "adoption" and "artificial insemination" come to mind (or for the brave few) that go thru the "natural process"
and before you get on your "high and mighty" bus that it''s suppose to be the natural process to procreate...then the argument that not all woman can procreate naturally becuase of their own bodily issues is considered an abomination by your standards.
Palin can believe in her own issues and ways of life..but preaching "hate"...and this is form of "HATE"...does nothing to embody her supposed "christian" values.
nor would she be considered following in "HIS" footsteps plain and simple.
Sinclair Lewis
Posted by Mosfett211 at 02:45 PM : Oct 20, 2008
"For the purpose of breeding"? What a ludicrous statement to include in the definition of marriage. Many people get married without the intention or plan to "breed." Some of them are beyond the age of reproduction. And some of them just do not want children. And they are legally married just like couples that do want children. So your definition FAILS -- there is nothing in the definition of marriage (other than the Catholic marriage rite ceremony perhaps, but we luckily have separation of church and state) that requires the couple to BREED (what, like we''re all a bunch of rabbits? What a barbaric proposition.) Rather, the definition of marriage is two people legally committing themselves to each other for life. I am straight but I see no objection to allowing a gay couple to do that just like straight couples do. ESPECIALLY not on the basis of "breeding." (BTW many gay couples adopt which is bringing children into the union/ family -- so your argument just makes no sense any way you look at it.)
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