Ellen DeGeneres weds: McCain walks me?: The Swamp The Swamp
Posted May 22, 2008 12:00 PM  The Swamp  by Mark Silva  Ellen
DeGeneres, who hosts a popular daytime television talk show and
has announced on-air that she will marry her girlfriend,
broached the question of gay marriage today with Republican John
McCain, the party's presumptive presidential nominee.  McCain,
unlike President Bush, does not support the enactment of a
constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But the senator
from Arizona, in his own second marriage, does believe that gay
and lesbian unions should be treated as "legal arrangements'' as
opposed to the traditional institution of holy matrimony.  The
question has gained new urgency in the aftermath of the
California Supreme Court ruling opening the door for gay and
lesbian marriage in the biggest state in the union - the one
with 57 Electoral College votes. Just as the debate over gay
marriage and state amendments banning it provided a backdrop for
Bush's reelection in 2004, the poli