{"id":257267,"date":"2010-01-31T22:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/cindy-mccain-raises-eyebrows-with-same-sex-marriage-ad\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:01:21","slug":"cindy-mccain-raises-eyebrows-with-same-sex-marriage-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257267","title":{"rendered":"Cindy McCain Raises Eyebrows With Same-sex Marriage Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Cindy+McCain+_1961_19574280_0_0_7052115_300.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy McCain raises eyebrows with same-sex marriage ad\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The wife of former presidential candidate John McCain surprised many when she appeared in an ad supporting gay marriage rights. <\/p>\n<p>Cindy McCain is featured on the website of NoH8Campaign.com&#8212;which advocates against California&#8217;s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage&#8212;with a piece of silver duct tape over her mouth and the slogan &quot;No H8&quot; written on her cheek. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The McCains are one of the most well-known Republican families in recent history, and for Mrs. McCain to have reached out to us to offer her support truly means a lot,&quot; wrote Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley, owners of the site. <\/p>\n<p>They added that her appearance sends the message that same-sex marriage is not a Republican or Democratic issue, but it is an issue of human and civil rights. <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. McCain is not the only member of the Arizona senator&#8217;s family that has spoken in support of marriage equality. Her daughter Meghan has appeared in a similar ad on the website and is widely known to have distanced herself from her father&#8217;s views on the issue. <\/p>\n<p>According to <i>Yahoo News<\/i>, Cindy McCain joins a long list of politician&#8217;s wives from both sides of the political scene&mdash;including Elizabeth Edwards, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush&mdash;who have publically expressed views on this issue that are different from those of their husbands. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19574280-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19574280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of former presidential candidate John McCain surprised many when she appeared in an ad supporting gay marriage rights. Cindy McCain is featured on the website of NoH8Campaign.com&#8212;which advocates against California&#8217;s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage&#8212;with a piece of silver duct tape over her mouth and the slogan &quot;No H8&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}