{"id":582647,"date":"2010-05-27T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/mccain-to-vote-against-military-gay-ban-repeal\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:01:16","slug":"mccain-to-vote-against-military-gay-ban%c2%a0repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582647","title":{"rendered":"McCain To Vote Against Military Gay Ban\u00a0Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/John+McCain_1961_19802084_0_0_7020119_300.jpg\" alt=\"McCain to vote against military gay ban repeal\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Faced with a growing challenge from a right-wing rival for the Arizona Republican nomination, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) is taking an increasingly intransigent stance on the Democrats&#8217; efforts to repeal the &quot;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&quot; policy.<\/p>\n<p>McCain, who at one point declared himself ready to see the policy repealed, has now indicated he will vote against the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate, who is also the top Republican on the Senate Armed Forces Committee, told Arizona&#8217;s KBLU radio that the Democrats &quot;[are] going to try to jam [the overhaul] through without even trying to figure out what the impact on battle effectiveness would be,&quot; quoted by <i>TheHill.com<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>McCain was also interviewed by Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins on <i>Washington Watch Weekly<\/i>, the organization&#8217;s syndicated half-hour radio show, where he said &quot;that this issue has significant long-term implication for our ability to defend this nation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He also said he was afraid that the repeal was a done deal &quot;because of no other reason than President Obama&#8217;s campaign promise.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican primary in Arizona is scheduled for Aug. 24, and McCain appears to be losing ground to a more conservative opponent. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19802084-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19802084\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with a growing challenge from a right-wing rival for the Arizona Republican nomination, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) is taking an increasingly intransigent stance on the Democrats&#8217; efforts to repeal the &quot;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&quot; policy. McCain, who at one point declared himself ready to see the policy repealed, has now indicated he will vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582647","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=582647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}