What McCain didn’t tell Ellen DeGeneres.

Cliff Schecter:

What McCain had to say was interesting in many ways–including his lack of honesty on his position regarding domestic partnerships. He told Ellen he opposed gay marriage–or her “position” on that issue, a strange way to put it when it is not a “position” to her, but an issue that affects her everyday life as she intends to marry her partner now that the California Supreme Court has asserted the legality of the practice.

But then he went on to once again redefine his position on the issue:

McCain, who also opposes an amendment to the Constitution to ban same-sex unions, said people should be encouraged to enter into legal agreements, particularly for insurance and other areas where decisions need to be made.

The problem is that McCain himself not only supported an amendment to the Arizona Constitution in 2006 that would have banned any “legal agreements” including “insurance” for domestic partners, but he cut advertisements for the measure (which failed). He also told prominent campaign supporter the late Jerry Falwell–who blamed 9/11 on gays and lesbians, among others–that if state constitutional measures such as this one were struck down by the courts, he would then support a federal gay-marriage ban.