McCains website says institution of marriage is a union between 1 man and 1 woman. Is this a joke?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm

Protecting Marriage

As president, John McCain would nominate judges who understand that the role of the Court is not to subvert the rights of the people by legislating from the bench. Critical to Constitutional balance is ensuring that, where state and local governments do act to preserve the traditional family, the Courts must not overstep their authority and thwart the Constitutional right of the people to decide this question.

The family represents the foundation of Western Civilization and civil society and John McCain believes the institution of marriage is a union between one man and one woman. It is only this definition that sufficiently recognizes the vital and unique role played by mothers and fathers in the raising of children, and the role of the family in shaping, stabilizing, and strengthening communities and our nation.

As with most issues vital to the preservation and health of civil society, the basic responsibility for preserving and strengthening the family should reside at the level of government closest to the people. In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers reserved for the States the authority and responsibility to protect and strengthen the vital institutions of our civil society. They did so to ensure that the voices of America's families could not be ignored by an indifferent national government or suffocated through filibusters and clever legislative maneuvering in Congress.

[JerseygirlCT]

1. Unfortunately, no. But many GOPers lack all sense of irony. nt

[2KS2KHonda]

2. Judges should not legislate from the bench. Except when they should.

:grr:

[napi21]

5. That phrase "legislating from the Bench" always amuses me!

I happen to agree with it when it's taken literally! However nobody does that! On all political sides, legislating from the bench is always OK if it supports YOUR VIEWS!

[LiberalFighter]

13. If legislators did their job the courts wouldn't have to "legislate from the bench".

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Does it mention that it should only be undertaken serially?

I mean, first you get married, then you leave to be a POW, which turns out to be the most impressive thing you'll ever do in your life, and then you return to your loving wife who suffered terribly in a car accident and still took care of your kids, and as soon as you can, you start cheating on her and then you ditch her with a fat payoff made by the equally unfaithful father of the young rich woman you've been banging while you were still married, and then you get divorced, and then you marry the rich young woman and use her family money to make a career for yourself.

That's McFuck's definition of marriage, right? The foundation of "Western Civilization." No one else anywhere - like in the Far East - ever gets married. Right?

[barbtries]

4. actually, i think it's called pandering

he sinks ever lower...

[KharmaTrain]

6. Bingo!

There's an interesting game going on with Gramps and the Fundies. Kinda like an old fashioned "courtship". He chases after their come-on...they move a little further, he chases...and so on. He's swung from any pretense of reality to rote recitation of fundie buzzwords and hopes that will let him cop a feel...yep, damsel Dobson slaps his hand and the game goes on.

Without filled church buses, Gramps is really "srewn"...yes, he sinks lower cause he must. But this is just one more sign of the desparation of this awful candidate and all the special interests that are now pulling his strings. Pandering has never gotten so good.

Cheers...

[Marr]

7. One-- at a time.

[TexasObserver]

8. McCain: Marriage is a union between a man & a woman & a 24 year old heiress ...

... and her $100 million and 7 houses.

[wtmusic]

10. and anything goes if the man was a POW. nt

:crazy:

[TexasObserver]

12. Yep, 35 years of riding that POW story.

[sam sarrha]

9. but he is one man on his "Second" woman.. waddaya call that..?

[Vickers]

11. Actually I think the saying goes:

"Marriage is a union between 1 man and 1 woman at a time.

That might make a Romney VP nod somewhat dicey...