McCain Administration Won't Help LGBT Issues

For anyone still wondering, on the left or the right, where John McCain now stands on two of the most divisive social issues of our time -- abortion and gay rights -- the Arizona senator made his beliefs clear as he accepted the Republican Party's nomination for president Thursday night in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before a hall of enthralled Republicans at the Xcel Energy Center here, he declared his support for a "culture of life" -- and judges "who dispense justice impartially and don't legislate from the bench." The latter reference, though coded in language about an "activist" judiciary, was an obvious swipe at same-sex marriage, in a year when the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality (and when that state and two others, including McCain's home state, face ballot initiatives over the issue).