Palin Breaks With McCain On Gay Marriage Ban

[NorthCarolina]

CBS News
Monday, October 20, 2008
On The Road blog

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/20/politics/fromtheroad/entry4531945.shtml

Palin Breaks With McCain On Gay Marriage Ban

By CBS News' Scott Conroy

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) - In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, Sarah Palin signaled her support for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, a position that John McCain once described as “antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans.”

“I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage,” Palin said.

“I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.”

When the federal marriage amendment was being debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his party’s leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.

"The constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans," McCain said. "It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."

Gay marriage isn’t the only issue on which Palin and McCain have expressed differences of opinion. They have also diverged on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, global warming, cross-border raids into Pakistan, and whether abortion should be permitted in cases of rape and incest.

In a joint interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, McCain portrayed their differences of opinion on ANWR in a positive light.

“Did you expect two mavericks to agree on—to agree on everything?” he asked.

Though she has criticized Obama for his position on late-term abortion, Palin has lately kept the focus on the Democrat’s tax plan, which she has said contains elements of socialism. Look for her to continue to hammer the Democrats on the economy as she campaigns across Colorado on Monday.
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The Palin interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/467179.aspx

[Zuiderelle]

1. Well, fuck you Sarah. You don't judge us? No, you just discriminate against us.

I can't wait until Alaska gets rid of you too.

[terrya]

8. I have this feeling McCain will pick up on this.

I know he's allegedly against a federal marriage amendment. But it's basically anything to win at this point for him.

[The Brethren]

12. I think McCain

knows what she's doing and is encouraging it. Because he knows this way he can appeal to voters on both sides of the issue. He can act like he doesn't believe in discrimination against gays while he lets the Moose Pie Queen shoot her bigoted mouth off.

[begin_within]

2. So a "vast majority of Alaskans had the opportunity to vote" on it

So gays and lesbians were excluded from voting or what? What minority was excluded?

[racaulk]

3. This is just more red meat to work up the Repuke base.

While serving the secondary purpose of making McCain look like a resonable moderate in comparison to her. But am I surprised to see Palin use what is considered a "wedge" issue, one which affects my very life and those of many that I care about, in an effort to score political points to win an election? Nope, not at all.

Fuck you very much, Sarah Palin.

And after this general election is over, I hope I never, EVER, hear the word "maverick" again. Those two buffoons have ruined that word forever.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. She sounds like Vicky Pollard

“I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.”

[racaulk]

7. Yeah but...yeah but...yeah but...don't be giving me evils!!!

I :loveya: Vicky Pollard, the queen of run-on sentences!!!

[LeftinOH]

5. There is already a ballot option to ban Sarah Palin in 49 states.....Nov 4th

[terrya]

6. That whole spiel in the debate with Biden were out and out lies.

[Orsino]

9. Turnin' up the hate...

...yet still stumbling over the cognitive dissonance as they claim it's not hate.

[hulklogan]

10. "I'm not going to tell people what they can and can't do" except for gay people.

I'll tell them they can't get married.

Caribou Barbie is slime.

[bullwinkle428]

11. Palin : "I HATE TEH GAYS MORE THAN JOHN MCCAIN!"

:crazy:

[RobertDevereaux]

13. I cannot wait for this vile creature...

...to fall into the dustbin of history.

[sui generis]

14. gosh I guess it's okay for two heterosexual people of the same

gender to get married though. Whew. Close call.

She is such an ignorant piece of piss poor protoplasm.