{"id":455,"date":"2004-07-15T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/07\/15\/the-courage-of-john-mccain-principle"},"modified":"2004-07-15T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T15:05:53","slug":"the-courage-of-john-mccain-principle-over-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/07\/15\/the-courage-of-john-mccain-principle-over-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courage of John McCain: Principle over Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a122'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not agree with many of John McCain&#8217;s positions. For example, he&#8217;s against gay marriage, and I&#8217;m in favor of it. So while it is easy for me to oppose the recently failed Federal Marriage Amendment, it takes a bit more courage for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/14\/mccain.marriage\/index.html\/\">John McCain to do it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is against gay marriage, yet he stands up to his own party and refuses to support the FMA, because he believes it is a State issue, and not a Federal one. His oath to uphold the Constitution trumps personal preference. And for that, John McCain is a great man, a politician worthy of respect and admiration.<\/p>\n<p>I wish we had more politicians like him. The Constitutional process should always trump a politician&#8217;s personal agenda. Too many politicians seem to forget that.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: fixed spelling mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not agree with many of John McCain&#8217;s positions. For example, he&#8217;s against gay marriage, and I&#8217;m in favor of it. So while it is easy for me to oppose the recently failed Federal Marriage Amendment, it takes a bit more courage for John McCain to do it. McCain is against gay marriage, yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}