Take note in the headline for this article. The subject is not Mark Buse is Gay, though that’s the story that’s being told elsewhere around the Internet today. The subject is that John McCain is happy to deny his own Senate Chief of Staff equal rights.
Mark Buse, John McCain’s Chief of Staff in the Senate has been outed as gay, though it seems that he never tried to hide his sexuality from people around him. That’s no big deal. It’s weird to me that Buse would campaign against his own interests by helping John McCain, but self-loathing is equal opportunity psychology, present among heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. Besides, being Chief of Staff to a powerful senator is a good job. Maybe Buse, like many Americans, puts his personal ambitions ahead of his liberty and ethical integrity.
The big deal is the decision by John McCain to oppose equal rights for people like Mark Buse. John McCain ought to be aware by now that many of the people he works with are not heterosexual. Yet, McCain seems to have no compassion for them, or respect for their rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. Equal protection under the law doesn’t appear to matter to John McCain, even when it’s denied to his own colleagues.
That’s the real scandal as I see it, not what some Washington D.C. insider likes to do during his private time.
No suprise to me, really, considering he a Repugnant. Remember Cheney? He has a gay daughter — his own child — yet he’s always publicly supported the Bush administration’s vocal opposition of gays and the opinion that they basically erode the fabric society. Talk about eating your young… Guess he won’t be winning the Father of the Year award anytime soon.