I'm not sure what makes Mccain a homophobe unless he's expressed it in the past. Not everyone who doesn't want the repeal is a bigot, and to broadly coat them as such is slander, and trying to make or reject laws by slander is fine for kindergarten class president but doesn't work in the real world, at least in republics. Democracies on the other hand..... Vote counts I saw before it failed showed support for the repeal, so it should go forward as they pass it on its own. Of course, those counts could also just have been politicing, giving your vote to get something else, ie the tax compromise. I know its how the system works now but its frustrating. I would rather they vote on things like this on their own, but to get through things you have to tag stuff on. So the Democrats wanted a timetable, and instead of voting for it itself they tagged it to funding for troops. Conservatives voted it down, but instead of reading "Republicans turn down timetable" the headlines are "republicans don't fund troops" and the democrats win the vote of social opinion. It works the same way here. After the pentagon study and a few other polls (however reliable those are, and statistics can be twisted to prove anything) suggested there was no overlying threat to the repeal I hope it goes through. I support it but what people have to remember is that there is no right to join the military, it is a privilege, one that can be revoked for a number of reasons. The problem, and the reasoning in the current ban, is the issue of morale and cohesion. If those aren't going to be threatened, then all the better. The general of the Marines I think sort of expressed a valid concern of discohesion but his statement was poorly thought out and inaccurate. The problem isn't in the work place, where no one cares, its in the living place, because of the circumstances. The military is simply not the same as the rest of society and has different parameters. Of course, he also said that no matter what the vote was, the Marines would obey the law.

Unfortunately doesn't look like homophob McCain will support it. And Kyl doesn't support anything that doesn't benefit the rich. My AZ senators. Shame.