Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona
Senator John McCain, on Friday took a swipe at Rick Santorum's
opposition to gay marriage.
McCain made her remarks a day after
Santorum compared gay
marriage to polygamy when challenged by students at a campaign stop
at New England College in Concord, New Hampshire.
In a reference to Santorum's
controversial 2003 remarks in which he linked gay sex to “man on
dog,” McCain told MSNBC host Thomas Roberts: “There's a
difference between being against marriage equality and then equating
same-sex marriage to bestiality.”
“I mean it's so dated and it's so
gross,” she added before she reiterated her support for gay
marriage.
“It's far off the course of
mainstream America, and it's enough for me just to say goodbye,”
she said. “If you nominate someone like Rick Santorum, I guarantee
he will lose.”
On her father's opposition to the
institution, she said: “My father is hopefully going to be the next
one I can work on, and he's sort of coming around … [H]e's 75 years
old, so it's a bit different.” (Watch
the exchange at Equality Matters.)