Ellen Degeneres grills John McCain on gay marriage [video]
“I think that people should be able to enter into legal agreements. And I think that that is something that we should encourage, particularly in the case of insurance and other areas — decisions that have to be made. I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman. And I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue.”
John McCain responding to Degeneres on Thursday’s “Ellen” show.
“We are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same… .When someone says, ‘You can have a contract, and you’ll still have insurance, and you’ll get all that,’ it sounds to me like saying, ‘Well, you can sit there, you just can’t sit there’…. It feels like we are not, you know, we aren’t owed the same things and the same wording.”
Ellen Degeneres politely confronting Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain, on his stand against gay marriage on her daytime TV talk show. (Associated Press)
“[Sen. McCain] supports the right of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution sanctioning the union between a man and a woman, just as he did in his home state of Arizona. John McCain doesn’t believe judges should be making these decisions.”
A spokesperson for Senator McCain responding to the California Supreme Court’s decisioin to allow gay marriages (Boston Globe)
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