John McCain says "adding gay rights to the immigration bill would be like adding Tax Payer funded abortion"
Slate quotes Sen. McCain at a breakfast meeting yesterday, saying that including LGBT protections in the immigration bill (as Pres. Obama has suggested) would be a Poison pill. Because we cannot marry (or at least have a federally recognized marriage), LGBT people and their non-American partners face much more difficulty in settling in the US than straight people. That's why immigration reform has been a critical concern to gay organizations for years.
Link to Slate story
Thanks, John McCain, for comparing basic human rights to a political third rail.
Oh, and by the way, as far as I am concerned, tax payer funded abortions are a great idea.