Any good will we may have felt for Sarah Palin after her SNL appearance just went straight down the drain.
The Republican vice-presidential candidate recently sat down with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody and, breaking from her running mate, John McCain, implied she would support a federal ban on gay marriage.
Brody: On Constitutional marriage amendment , are, are you for something like that?
Palin: 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.
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.
Senator McCain, who would be Palin’s ticket to the White House, has previously described a federal marriage amendment as “antithetical” to the Republican party’s core beliefs.
While debating the issue back in 2004, 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.” Apparently Palin thinks she knows better than McCain – and a number of States she would represent as vice-president.
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Ston
The problem is, McCain just didn’t want a FEDERAL law, he supports state anti- gay laws. here is a commercial he appeared in for an anti gay marraige law in AZ
Here is the commercial from AZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7DHscURg3E
Also here is the statement McCain sent into the CA. campaign supporting CA. Prop 108 who
support banning gay marraige in Ca….
“””McCain sent this short statement to the Protect Marriage campaign,
one of the conservative groups spearheading an effort to amend the
state Constitution in November and define marriage as between a man
and a woman:
“I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize
marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman, just as we
did in my home state of Arizona. I do not believe judges should be
making these decisions.”””
Todd
Ya know? I actually cut this twit a little slack after her SNL performance, too. I should have known better. Not that there was any chance in hell I would have voted for her (puh-leeze) but now, it’s crystal clear: she is the enemy.
All wrapped up in a pretty little package, too. THAT’S the scary part.
Get out and VOTE!!!
fredo777
Shocker.
This is the same woman who wanted to have the library remove any books she found objectionable.
Mark
Her statement wasn’t made in isolation. She is a fundamentalist who believes Jebus will be coming ‘back’ in her lifetime. I used quotes around back because he never was here in the first place.
Which shows us precisely where her head is located: 100% in unreality.
CitizenGeek
Sarah Palin is a dangerous, dangerous woman. She cannot be allowed anywhere near the presidency!
damien
“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”
Uh… that’s EXACTLY what you’re doing!
CondeNasty
I know this sounds extreme and hoakey, but if McCain & Palin win I will seriosly consider a transfer to my London or Paris offices. It is getting so that I am no longer feeling “comfortable”. It is only a short step from terms like “culture wars” turning into the reality of “reprograming camps”.
seitan-on-a-stick
Senator Barack Obama will be our next President but it is 2012 that we should worry about as there are generally swings against incumbents and Governor Sarah Palin is closer to the Presidency than even Senator John McCain. Bush’s unpopular recession may still be with us for the next few years and affect the next President’s tenure. A President Palin will introduce a Federal ban on Gay Marriage, overturn Roe V Wade, stack SCOTUS with evangelicals, ban sex education and same sex adoption rights, reduce AIDS funding and maintain a ban on Stem-Cell Research, ignore Global Warming at the planet’s peril and criminalize out-of-wedlock sex and debtors as well as War for Oil with Iran. No matter where in the world you went, we ALL would suffer.
To laugh at Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is healthy but to laugh with Sarah Palin on SNL means that you are really naive, Todd. Television, and their Corporate Overlords keeps us ignorant!
BobP
No, she’s not judging or anything! Is this stupid cunt for real. Typical republicanazi who thinks that if she says she’s not being judgemental that she’s not! Okey Dokey? What an incredibly stupid excuse for a human being. And, HELLO, what kind of “traditional” family is your knocked-up slut daughter, her high school drop-out red-neck boyfriend and her unborn spawn?
Answer me that you backwards twat.
mark
sarah SPANK the log cabinistas…everyone else does.
where’s my Purell?
ban-gay-marriage
All these comments are stupid. I completely agree with palin and think that gay marriages should be banned its gross and digusting and I can’t stand to even look at a guy kissing another guy its just not normal and I have no idea how you people can be like this
mark
is it Nov 4th …..YET?
I can’t stand many more days of this screachy vulgar f*ctardess
Smokey Martini
Ban: if you were actually willing to listen to our honest answer, we would tell you.But you’re not. So, you get no response aside from this one. Goodbye.
Mr C
Wait a minute kids,
Where’s Churchill-Y on this one? This is his girl who he says her and McCain will restore dignity to the White House.
Really?
I guess the bitch and the rest of the KKGays won’t comment on this one since she’s WHITE….WOW!!!
Talk about HOMOPHOBIA
You better work Sarah Stalin!
This BITCH is a dictator and is WRONG for America!
Justin
looks like she finally got a hair stylist though
Mike S
Honestly, sometimes Gov. Palin’s ineptitude as a politician amazes me. The “mistake” in her answer is that she believes herself to be a “federalist” republican. So, like John McCain, she believes that states should have the final say in these hot “moral” issues. Hence Rowe v. Wade is a bad supreme court decision because it takes the power away from states to regulate abortion. So to say that Roe V Wade (and other supreme court decisions that take powers away from the states) should be overturned, while clamoring for a federal amendment that bans gay marriage (as opposed to state level bans) seems politically devoid of sense. Yes, I do realize I am talking about Sarah Palin here.
tanene
Actually, the media has gotten this story wrong. Palin simply stated a belief of hers that does match with McCain’s support for a Federal Amendment banning gay marriage.
In March 2003, Jonathan Martin of the Politico reported that when McCain was asked if he would sign the federal marriage amendment if elected President, he replied “of course.†Martin noted that McCain answered the question “without thinking about it.†He later wrote that McCain’s campaign clarified that “he’d only support a marriage amendment to the Constitution if the federal judiciary barred states from banning marriage.â€
[Politico.com , 3/19/07]
So both support Federal bans if it dare looks like us LGBT folks start getting more rights on the state level. There’s no disagreement there, just shared bigotry.