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I’m impressed, frankly, with the unflinching outspokenness of Meghan McCain (John’s daughter) in her quest to restore sanity, and a future, to the Republican Party. No idea whether she’ll have any success — at least for the foreseeable future — but her willingness to stand straight up to her own party’s not-minimal thuggery is impressive.<\/p>\n
Today, McCain is out and out calling for the GOP to “Go Gay”<\/a> by embracing same sex marriage (she still calls it “gay marriage,” but that’s because she’s still a Republican), and begins her case by pointing out that it was the GOP deity himself, Ronald Reagan, as Governor of CA in 1978, who fended off a ballot proposition which would have outlawed gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools.<\/p>\n “Reagan’s argument centered around the idea that parents already had all the rights they needed to protect their children and that the government did not need to interfere,” McCain notes, pointing to an actual conservative<\/i> doctrine which the GOP has all but abandoned in their bigoted, unConstitutional demands for Big Government intervention into the private lives of homosexual Americans.<\/p>\n I’m digging fairly deeply into the details of what could be a tremendously important story to come (unrelated to this issue), so for the moment I’ll just leave you with a few of the money quotes from her essay at The Daily Beast<\/a> today:<\/p>\n She finishes with the incredibly overly optimistic notion: “I believe the Republican Party has, at this moment, the opportunity to come forward and play an instrumental role in securing gay rights.” Nonetheless, she deserves credit and kudos for having the courage to say it. It’s a pity it’ll likely fall on so many deaf, crazy, tea-bagging<\/a> ears.<\/p>\n Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m impressed, frankly, with the unflinching outspokenness of Meghan McCain (John’s daughter) in her quest to restore sanity, and a future, to the Republican Party. No idea whether she’ll have any success — at least for the foreseeable future — but her willingness to stand straight up to her own party’s not-minimal thuggery is impressive. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,252,332,300,126,295],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-marriage","category-john-mccain","category-lgbt","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-rnc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}At the most basic level, sexual orientation should not be a factor in how you are treated. If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric.
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\nLest we forget, our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, grants the same rights to everyone in this country”\u201d”All men are created equal.”\u009d If you think certain rights should not apply to certain people, then you are saying those people are not equal. People may always have a difference of opinion on certain lifestyles, but championing a position that wants to treat people unequally isn’t just un-Republican. At its fundamental core, it’s un-American.<\/div>\n