Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

With a recent poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a “strictly private” decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain’s newly reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority. Sure, Barack Obama’s official position has been for preserving the one-man, one-woman definition of marriage. But unlike McCain, the Illinois senator has been a vocal supporter of civil unions, respects the California Supreme Court decision granting same-sex marriage in the state, and has not vowed to fight for the traditional definition of marriage — leading some to suggest he may be an in-the-closet supporter of gay marriage.

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