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Contents:

• HOW JOHN MCCA CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SERVICE SECRETARY
• CDY MCCA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• MEGHAN MCCA DISH TO PLAYBOY ON GAY RUMORS, CALLS BRISTOL PAL "CONFED"
• FACG CRICISM, MCCA CLARIFI HIS STATEMENT ON GAY ADOPTN
• PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE
• HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN SAYS MCCA REPRENTS "FOUR MORE YEARS OF ANTI-GAY POLICI."
• MCCA’S WIFE, DGHTER BACK GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
• MCCA A MOVG TARGET ON GAY ISSU

HOW JOHN MCCA CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SERVICE SECRETARY

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.

CDY MCCA COM OUT FOR GAY MARRIAGE

In an terview Sunday wh the Arizona-based Kronke News, Kolbe said havg McCa’s support when g out as gay was important. (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 to his role the 22nd Secretary of the Army, beg the first openly gay person to hold the role of service secretary. 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.

MEGHAN MCCA DISH TO PLAYBOY ON GAY RUMORS, CALLS BRISTOL PAL "CONFED"

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.

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 the end, eight Republin senators st their vot to allow gays and lbians to serve openly the U.

FACG CRICISM, MCCA CLARIFI HIS STATEMENT ON GAY ADOPTN

"Today is a very sad day, " McCa announced, tailg his ntug opposn to allowg gay and lbian soldiers to be open about their sexualy. Allowg gays to serve openly the Mar would prove a potentially adly distractn McCa said, quotg om a Mare Corps Commandant warng, "and I don't want to perm that opportuny to happen.

However, on issu important to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Amerins, that's jt not took a look at Sen.

PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE

A McCa princy would be another four years of more of the fact, this is how Marc Ambr scribed our fdgs:The natn's top feral gay lobbyg group says a report today that John McCa is anti-gay and that spe pretens to moratn and toleratn, he is jt as dangero for gays as Gee W.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN SAYS MCCA REPRENTS "FOUR MORE YEARS OF ANTI-GAY POLICI."

Senator McCa supports Don't Ask, Don't Tell and do not believe that gays should serve the ary.

MCCA’S WIFE, DGHTER BACK GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT

Senator McCa supported a Jse Helms strategy to cut off fundg for preventn efforts aimed at the gay muny and voted to prohib foreign natnals wh HIV om immigratg to the Uned our vio on John McCa's rerd for yourself:Popular the CommunyYou May Like.

It's a gay marriage muty the hoe of McCa.

Followg dghter Meghan's footsteps, Cdy McCa, the wife of Republin senator and former GOP ndidate for print John McCa, has publicly joed the fight for same-sex marriag -- posg for a photograph for NOH8, a group fightg the ban on gay marriage California. While lady McCa has quietly exprsed support for gay marriage the past, the photo reprents a dramatic spl om Sen.

MCCA A MOVG TARGET ON GAY ISSU

"I nnot help but to wonr if the 2008 Printial electns would have went differently if John McCa would have said that his fay supports gay marriage, " Baron wr.

On a posive aspect, uld be te that not all republins are anti-gay marriage. McCa on gay marriage -- Sarah Pal, albe the oppose directn. "John McCa has typilly taken a more morate posn on the issue of gay marriage than nservative Republins, sayg is an issue of stat' rights, promptg his 2008 nng mate Sarah Pal to break wh him on the issue durg the mpaign, " she wr.

He told gay anizers Massachetts he would be a stronger advote for special rights than even Ted Kennedy.