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11-12-2010, 10:18am
Cindy McCain Blames Gay Teen Suicides and Bullying on DADT, Her Husband -- Daily Intel (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/cindy_mccain_points_the_finger.html)
Cindy McCain Blames Gay Teen Suicides and Bullying on DADT, Her Husband
It's going to be a tense Thanksgiving at the McCain manse. Please pass the thinly veiled contempt? The NOH8 Campaign, a photo project that collected images of people with duct tape over their mouths to protest Prop 8, released a video yesterday about bullying and suicides among gay youth. The video features celebrities like Denise Richards, Gene Simmons, Dave Navarro — and Cindy McCain, whose husband led the GOP filibuster that prevented Congress from voting on a Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal and whose presidential campaign ran on a platform that opposed gay marriage. After sharing statistics like the fact that a gay teen commits suicide in America every seventeen minutes, the video says, "You might be asking yourself, how can these statistics be so high? What's convincing these kids that things won't get better?"
At which point, we see Cindy McCain for the first time, saying, "Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future ... They can't serve our country openly ... Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens, why shouldn't [the bullies]?"
This isn't the first time John McCain's wife has publicly campaigned against his policies. Earlier this year, she surprised NOH8 organizers by volunteering to pose for one of their photographs. But the video directly ties the culture of bullying and suicides among gay youth back to government policies, and it's Cindy McCain's words that point the finger at her husband.
Cindy McCain Knocks 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ban on Gays in Military
Cindy McCain is appearing in a new video ad sharply critical of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays -- the very law her husband, Sen. John McCain, is battling to keep on the books.
"Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] youth that they have no future," McCain says in the ad, which also features celebrities and rock stars. "They can't serve our country openly." Later in the video, she adds, "Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens -- why shouldn't they?"
On Capitol Hill, Sen. McCain, a former Navy flier who was held in a North Vietnamese prison for 5½ years, is in the middle of a fight to defeat Senate legislation that would repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces. The House has already passed a repeal bill and President Obama has vowed to do away with the Clinton-era policy.
The new ad, produced by the California-based organization NOH8, is part of a campaign against the bullying of gay teenagers, begun after several highly publicized suicides by tormented young gay people.
Cindy McCain Blames Gay Teen Suicides and Bullying on DADT, Her Husband
It's going to be a tense Thanksgiving at the McCain manse. Please pass the thinly veiled contempt? The NOH8 Campaign, a photo project that collected images of people with duct tape over their mouths to protest Prop 8, released a video yesterday about bullying and suicides among gay youth. The video features celebrities like Denise Richards, Gene Simmons, Dave Navarro — and Cindy McCain, whose husband led the GOP filibuster that prevented Congress from voting on a Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal and whose presidential campaign ran on a platform that opposed gay marriage. After sharing statistics like the fact that a gay teen commits suicide in America every seventeen minutes, the video says, "You might be asking yourself, how can these statistics be so high? What's convincing these kids that things won't get better?"
At which point, we see Cindy McCain for the first time, saying, "Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future ... They can't serve our country openly ... Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens, why shouldn't [the bullies]?"
This isn't the first time John McCain's wife has publicly campaigned against his policies. Earlier this year, she surprised NOH8 organizers by volunteering to pose for one of their photographs. But the video directly ties the culture of bullying and suicides among gay youth back to government policies, and it's Cindy McCain's words that point the finger at her husband.
Cindy McCain Knocks 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ban on Gays in Military
Cindy McCain is appearing in a new video ad sharply critical of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays -- the very law her husband, Sen. John McCain, is battling to keep on the books.
"Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] youth that they have no future," McCain says in the ad, which also features celebrities and rock stars. "They can't serve our country openly." Later in the video, she adds, "Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens -- why shouldn't they?"
On Capitol Hill, Sen. McCain, a former Navy flier who was held in a North Vietnamese prison for 5½ years, is in the middle of a fight to defeat Senate legislation that would repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces. The House has already passed a repeal bill and President Obama has vowed to do away with the Clinton-era policy.
The new ad, produced by the California-based organization NOH8, is part of a campaign against the bullying of gay teenagers, begun after several highly publicized suicides by tormented young gay people.