Speaking at a Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry event on Monday, Meghan McCain said it's a "bitch" being a Republican who supports marriage equality. Umm...yeah. No doy. But good on her for sticking by her beliefs in what, on many occasions, must be a hostile situation.
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According to the Huffington Post, shortly after Romney lost to Obama, McCain said she would consider switching parties if the GOP failed to change some of its stances. While it's a start, one Senator with a gay son does not a changed stance make — so what's the word, McCain?
DISCUSSION
Is being a Republican always a choice? I ask this honestly, from a sort of upbringing/psychological view (and because I've thought about it a lot lately in regards to say, religious people as well).
It seems like duh, sure it's a choice - you can choose what to believe. But if you've been raised to be something from you were a kid, indoctrinated in it (in the case of religion, literally told you would burn in eternal flame if you didn't believe in it), and grow up in a fairly insular world, I don't know if it is something you can really actively choose to believe in. Meghan McCain seems like a pretty good example - she's a Republican and chooses to be one, despite the fact that a majority of her opinions would categorize her as something else. I have Catholic friends that choose to be Catholic, even though they disagree with a huge majority of the church's positions.
There are tons of examples of people who choose not to believe in what they've been raised to do and I'm not saying that's not possibly- I was raised by religious zealots, and I'm an atheist now, but I can fully see how if my parents hadn't been terrible people that made me dislike them and thus everything they stand for, but had been kind loving people I adored and trusted, I can realize there's a super high chance I'd still believe what they do.