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Cindy McCain: NO H8 or TOO L8?

Cindy McCain recently posed for the NO H8 campaign. The campaign focused on bringing awareness to equality for all, specifically the LGBT community. Although this is a great “get” on the campaigns part… I just feel like saying it’s too late Cindy. Perhaps we should call Mrs. McCain’s photos TOO L8! Photographer, Adam Bouska, told the Advocate.com he spent several hours with McCain and really thinks she understands the need for equal rights for the gay community. So, they snapped, snapped and snapped away during the photo shoot.

It’s a pretty picture, and that’s about it. What does her feelings on equal rights for the LGBT community mean to anyone at this point. There was a moment just over a year ago, when she had a much larger public platform. When her husband, Senator John McCain, was running for the presidency, she had her pick of news shows, talk shows or newspapers to state her opinion on equal rights/marriage equality for the gay community. But, if my memory serves me correctly, that was not the platform her husband was running on. The very same platform she publicly supported and stood on in state after state across this country.

When Bouska was asked if she gave any indication whether John McCain is moving in the direction of supporting marriage equality? He said, “I got that impression. I don’t know that I should speak much about it, but I definitely got that impression.”

The impression I get is different. The impression I get, comes straight from John McCain’s mouth, “People should be able to enter into legal agreements.” That’s what Senator McCain told Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime talk show, when chatting about marriage equality. That’s what the platform Cindy McCain stood for represented. Once again, the LGBT community was asked to be “lesser.” I wonder if John McCain got down on one knee and asked Cindy to “enter into a legal agreement?” He went on to tell Degeneres, “I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman.” As Ellen replied, It seems the statement says, “You can sit there, but you just can’t sit there.”

Looks like gay men and women are still riding in the back of the McCain “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus.

Update: Senator McCain’s office has issued a statement saying he respects his family members’ views, but that he is still opposed to gay marriage.