Facing Criticism, McCain Clarifies His Statement on Gay Adoption
Posted on July 22, 2008
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Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said in an interview with The New York Times that was published Sunday that he opposed allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. “I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption,” he said.
When asked in the interview if he opposed gay adoptions even if the alternative was that the child remain in an orphanage, Mr. McCain — who, with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter — said that he wanted to encourage adoption and make the process easier, but that adoptive parents should be mixed-sex, traditional couples.
On Tuesday, as his statements were criticized by a number of gay rights organizations, his campaign clarified his remarks.
“John McCain could have been clearer in the interview in stating that his position on gay adoption is that it is a state issue, just as he made it clear in the interview that marriage is a state issue,” Tucker Bounds, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement. “He was not endorsing any federal legislation.”
Currently only Florida has a broad ban on gay adoptions, but Mississippi and Utah ban adoptions by same-sex couples but not necessarily by gay individuals, said Chris Edelson, the state legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights group.
Facing Criticism, McCain Clarifies His Statement on Gay Adoption
New York Times, United States
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