John McCain's Wife Cindy Joins Campaign For Marriage Equality

[Ian David]

Cindy McCain NOH8 PHOTO: McCain Joins Project Protesting Prop 8

On Wednesday, the NOH8 campaign protesting California's Proposition 8 announced a new high-profile Republican supporter: John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain. NOH8 is a photo project in which subjects are photographed wearing white, against a white background, with their mouths taped shut and "NOH8" painted on their faces.

McCain's daughter Meghan McCain -- a vocal proponent of marriage equality -- posed for NOH8 last summer. (Her Daily Beast piece explaining why she posed can be found here.)

The NOH8 website posted the following note, along with McCain's photo, expressing the campaign's surprise and appreciation that she decided to join the cause.

Redefining Republican:

In the year since we've started the NOH8 Campaign, we've been surprised at some of the different individuals who have approached us showing their support. Few, though, have surprised us more than Cindy McCain--the wife of Senator John McCain and mother to vocal marriage equality advocate Meghan McCain. The McCains are one of the most well-known Republican families in recent history, and for Mrs. McCain to have reached out to us to offer her support truly means a lot. Although we had worked with Meghan McCain before and we were aware of her own position, we'd never really thought the cause might be something her mother could get behind.


Aligning yourself with the platform of gay marriage as a Republican still tends to be very stigmatic, but Cindy McCain wanted to participate in the campaign to show people that party doesn't matter - marriage equality isn't a Republican issue any more than it is a Democratic issue. It's about human rights, and everybody being treated equally in the eyes of the law that runs and protects this country.




More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/cindy-mccain-noh8-photo-m_n_430004.html

[Not Me]

1. Good for her

Michelle? Are ya' listening?

[joeybee12]

3. No, she's not listening...caution is the buzz word now...remember, last night

told us we must be cautious so as not to offend anyone!!!


Is this :sarcasm: necessary for me to put here?

[mitchtv]

4. not quite, just don't offend anyone

who will never vote for you anyway. It's ok to offend Democrats

[joeybee12]

5. How much WASTED time did they spend courting people who

will never vote for them, never miss an opportunity to stab them in the back. I think it's the stupidity that galls me most.

[mitchtv]

6. they never should have betrayed Labor

"dance with the ones who brung ya". It shouldn't be too hard a lesson to learn. Gays can wait for after the "prayer breakfast"

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Listening? I think Michelle agrees with Prop H8.

She seems to. Barack does. They worked Warren into the inaugural to celebrate the passage of Prop H8, or were so fully out of touch as to not see the insult they were throwing out to their own supporters in favor of a man who will never help them or their causes, ever.

[tbyg52]

8. I cannot imagine ever, ever, ever forgiving him for Warren. nt

[cecilfirefox]

2. She's on my

[cecilfirefox]

9. I meant to write that she's on my heart list! ^_^ nt

[inna]

10. wow, good on them.

cool, even if they are doing this purely out of political considerations.

[Meldread]

11. She looks stunningly beautiful in the photo.

It's a really great image.

Now, let's hope that Cindy and Meghan can bring the old man around to their way of thinking. One person, one family, one mind at a time. That's how we win.