Pal breaks wh McCa on gay marriage

Contents:

• PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MEGHAN MCCA: 'BEG A REPUBLIN WHO SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE IS A BCH'
• MCCA'S WIFE, DGHTER BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• CDY MCCA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• HOPEFULS DIFFER AS THEY REJECT GAY MARRIAGE
• IN THEIR OWN WORDS: MCCA, OBAMA ON ‘GAY RIGHTS’

PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE

An early tt for McCa on LGBT issu durg his reer the Senate me 1993, when lawmakers were batg gays the ary rponse to then-Print Clton’s ll to lift the admistrative ban on their service. LGBT activists, cludg the then-publishers of the Washgton Bla, threatened to out Kolbe over his vote, but Kolbe pre-empted them by g out as gay. In an terview Sunday wh the Arizona-based Kronke News, Kolbe said havg McCa’s support when g out as gay was important.

MEGHAN MCCA: 'BEG A REPUBLIN WHO SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE IS A BCH'

(Ironilly, the Arizona amendment 2006 was the first anti-gay marriage amendment to fail at the ballot, although voters the state rrected that by passg a different versn of the amendment 2008. Notably, McCa when asked to intify a gay role mol chose 9/11 hero Mark Bgham, who helped lead passengers divertg Uned Airl Flight 93 om the terrorists’ tend target of the U.

Hayworth, McCa was the biggt opponent of endg the prohibn on gays the ary and fought aggrsively agast changg the policy. This article origally appeared the Washgton Bla and is ma available partnership wh the Natnal Gay Media Associatn. Senate Republins stggle bid to pass gay marriage ban.

Senators bate the amendment banng gay marriage.

MCCA'S WIFE, DGHTER BACK GAY MARRIAGE

The shift happened, he said, after his son, Will, me out to him as gay. Meghan joed the learship mtee of the Young Conservativ for the Freedom to Marry last November, a group workg to build support for gay marriage among a younger generatn of nservativ.

CDY MCCA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

“And by the way, ” he told Cooper, who is gay, “I have admired your forward posn and stand on this issue. John McCa, who once lled the vote to allow gays to serve openly the ary a “sad day, ” is now, jt six years later, emergg as a firewall agast GOP efforts to ero LGBT protectns the hotly bated fense rethorizatn bill. McCa, chairman of the Senate Armed Servic Commtee, has a measure that don’t clu the exemptns - a move that is beg ld by gay rights John McCa, R-Ariz.

”The discsn on LGBT-related amendments to the fense policy bill ls than a week after a gunman opened fire a gay nightclub Orlando a shootg spree that left 49 ad and 53 others jured. Related: Vote on Hoe Floor Over LGBT Rights Turns UglyThe change McCa’s tone on gay rights is jt unr a , the seasoned lawmaker and rated Vietnam War veteran has gone om beg reviled by the LGBT muny for his impassned opposn to gay and lbian soldiers servg openly to supportg Eric Fanng, who is openly gay, his historic bid to bee secretary of the April, McCa took to the Senate floor to plead wh his iend and lleague, Sen. Related: Eric Fanng, First Openly Gay Army Secretary, Confirmed by U.

HOPEFULS DIFFER AS THEY REJECT GAY MARRIAGE

And he was vol his cricism of an Arizona measure to allow relig exemptns for bs to refe servic to gays and is facg a tough re-electn challenge om Ann Kirkpatrick, a Democrat. Discrimatn agast gays is now a big loser polilly most stat, and that even clus Arizona - which is not nearly as nservative as ed to be, ” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Polics at the Universy of, gay rights advot and their alli say they are buoyed by McCa’s reposng.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: MCCA, OBAMA ON ‘GAY RIGHTS’

Republin vice printial nomee Sarah Pal says she supports a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, a break wh John McCa who has said he believ stat should be left to fe what marriage is.