She and I share many common passions...women is just one of them. Glad she found the right one for her.

Marriage is not a religious contract it's a legal one. Everyone deserves the right to enter into a contract with whom they choose.

I just believe in the unique status of marriage between a man and a woman and I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue.

He means it's a religious sacrament. That's the only unique status that exists for heterosexual marriage.

Procreation doesn't count as something that makes heterosexual marriage "unique" because heterosexual people can marry even if they can't or won't procreate.

The problem is, the idea of marriage as a religious sacrament is already invalidated by the existence of civil marriage.

Heterosexual people don't have to hold to any religious sentiments or practices before they get married.

Therefore the "unique status" of heterosexual marriage doesn't apply outside of religion.

Since the state certification of a marriage has nothing whatsoever to do with sanctifying a religious sacrament, then we should stop discriminating against gays and lesbians.

Oh yeah, she's right to make him squirm. He fricken' deserves it. Next up, Rob Riggle talks to him about not bothering to show up to vote for the new GI Bill. And so forth.

I mean I think in all sorts of ways he would not make a good president, but he does put himself in these situations.

Ellen is just so damn cool.

Here's the problem. McCain just totally brandished his conservative bona fides, in the presence of a pretty tough liberal talking to. Who does that conversation benefit in the short term? McCain. Who does it maybe hurt in the short term? The democrats, if the real wacko conservatives get worked up enough about a black president and gay marriage. Anybody remember Mr. Kerry's run after Mayor Newsom's marry-a-thon? Is this just a funny coincidence?

In the long term, of course, Ellen's right and will be vindicated. But here we are 40 years after the 1968, and there are still people who will admit on the record that they simply won't vote for a black president. The long term can be pretty long in terms of one person's life. In terms of the human race, we all need people like Ellen to stand up for what's right against people who are wrong -- and eventually things change.

It's just funny how the republicans can do this over and over again.

She let him off the hook too easy. She should have fried his smarmy ass to a crisp. I'm sick of ignorant bigoted right-wing pecker heads, their nasty attitudes and condescending rhetoric. Agree to disagree my ass. McCain and the rest of the neocons need to go bag groceries at Piggly Wiggly, and get the eff out of politics so this country can start to move forward again.

What should really be done, is that the government should get out of the marriage business completely. The government should perform civil unions with all the legal rights and privileges currently accorded to marriages. Marriages would remain the province of religions, and would be a religious rite only with no legal standing. If couples getting married in a church wanted to change their legal standing, they would have to file for a civil union regardless of sexual orientation.

Marriage was a religious institution long before governments started mucking with them. They should wash their hands of the term and force people to re-conceptualize. Let the religious nuts have their word, but clearly delineate between marriage (religious and not legally binding) and civil unions (non-religious and legally binding). Let them wrap their heads around that...

She should call both Obama and Clinton and see if either of them will agree.

Of course more than that, I would like to see Clinton and Obama sharing the aisle.

mrrOW!

I can't wait for the celebrity blitz when they do this.

Middle-class, middle-aged white women. And many others, of course--but take a look at the audience in her studio. McCain wants to steal Hillary's top demographic from Obama, is my guess for why he agreed to go on the show. Glad she gave him an earful.

If anything, the fact that he turned up on Ellen’s show for a cutesy little “I respect your opinion, and I hope you’re happy, but I disagree” conversation – that aint gonna go over too well with the redneck agenda (who never use “respect” and “disagree” in the same sentence). And what McSame needs MOST right now is the goose-steppin’ support of the Christo-fascists, because it’s not like he (or any other Republican) has anything else to offer. Lovin’ on fetuses, hatin’ everything the fuck else – that’s all they got.

(oh, yeah, and "fiscal conservatism". HA!)

I think his appearances on “Ellen” and SNL are really telling; he doesn’t give a shit about the so-called “morality” of homosexuality, it’s just one more wedge issue to cram down the throats of the hillbillies who’ll be yanking his lever in November no matter what.

Balls? What that ass-hat has is NERVE – lots of it. He hasn’t earned the right to joke with the American citizens he routinely treats like garbage.

- except when they are cheating on their spouses.

McCain describes a "whirl-wind romance" with Cindy. However, he happened to be married to Carol at the time.

Adultery is such an ugly, yet accurate word....

But my unauthorized subconscious reptile id would really like to have me do both Ellen and Portia, ideally together but I would settle for one at a time. They are both extraordinarily HOTT.

Yeah, I'm a dutch-boy.

He just won't debate anyone on any issue. His immediate fallback is to blow his interlocutor off with "I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue." He did it to Joe Klein, who called the Great Foreign Policy Expert on his erroneous assertion that Ahmadinejad was the man in charge of Iranian foreign policy. (That would be the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei--so called because he is, well, the Supreme Leader.) Expect much more of this "respectful" weaseling in the months to come. Those debating him will need to follow DeGeneres' lead and refuse to be dismissed like this.

(For the Joe Klein exchange, see http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/20/mccain_iran/index.html)