Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us – we are fellow Americans, and that’s an association that means more to me than any other.
We’re dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal and endowed by our creator with inalienable rights. No country ever had a greater cause than that.
- Republican Presidential Nominee Senator John S. McCain
This is a quote from Sen. McCain’s acceptance speech. I agree wholeheartedly with the senator’s statement, but I also think it highlights some of the hypocrisy of social conservatives’ opinions of gay Americans. I think it represents a terrible inconsistency in their way of thinking.
When the terrorists attacked on 11 September 2001, they didn’t make distinction between righteous and unrighteous and they didn’t even care that some of the people killed in the World Trade Center could have been their fellow Muslims. Our enemies don’t care whether we are gay or straight - they focus on the fact that we are Americans and they hate all Americans equally. That’s an association that means more to them than any other.
So why do our fellow Americans make a distinction between gay and straight? Why are volunteers turned away from the Armed Services when it is discovered they are gay?
This mismatch of rhetoric and action speaks much louder than any words Sen. McCain can utter.
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