John McCain And Ellen DeGeneres Talk Gay Marriage 
  Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

How awkward is this:  Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has said in the past that he's "proud to have led an effort in [Arizona] to protect the sanctity of marriage as between a man and a woman," and who supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (which banned federal recognition of gay marriage and domestic partnerships), was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today.

Ellen DeGeneres, if you didn't know, is in the planning stages of a now-legal California wedding celebration with her partner, Portia de Rossi, and has been discussing it excitedly on her show.

So Ellen turned to "the elephant in the room," and she and John McCain began a discussion on gay marriage.  Though it had the potential for heated discussion and/or booing, both of them kept their cool and it actually ended up more pointless than anything else.

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