Gay communitys position john mc cain

John McCain died this weekend after a battle with brain cancer. In , he granted an exclusive interview to the Blade. Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key. This story was published Friday, Oct. Republican presidential nominee Sen.

John McCain R-Ariz. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key. Throughout his decades in Congress, the Arizona Republican took widely different stances on LGBT issues — at times mocking them as unimportant, at other times embracing equal rights for the LGBT community. McCain would often oppose LGBT rights to align with his party and for the sake of political expediency, although the general direction of the positions he took as time went on demonstrated increasing acceptance of LGBT people. Three years later in , McCain continued his opposition to LGBT rights when he was one of 84 senators to vote in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal prohibition on the recognition of same-sex marriage. At around this time, former Rep. LGBT activists, including the then-publishers of the Washington Blade, threatened to out Kolbe over his vote, but Kolbe pre-empted them by coming out as gay.

Congress from until his death in office in , a two-time U. Presidential election , took positions on many political issues through his public comments, his presidential campaign statements, and his senatorial voting record. Online, McCain used his Senate web site [1] and his campaign web site [2] to describe his political positions. Regarding the general notion of consistency of political positions over time, McCain said in June "My principles and my practice and my voting record are very clear. Not only from but and and

John McCain's staunch opposition to gay marriage was one of the key parts of his presidential campaign. But it has become clear this was not supported in his own household. His daughter, Meghan, is a vocal advocate of gay rights.