Cindy McCain, the wife of Arizona
Senator John McCain, is slated to appear in the Phoenix reading of a
play based on the trial over the constitutionality of California's
gay marriage ban, Proposition 8.
8, which was written by
Academy-award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk),
uses actual court transcripts from Hollingsworth v. Perry and
first-hand interviews to document the 2010 trial which struck down
the constitutional amendment approved by voters two years earlier.
After a number of appeals, the Supreme
Court last month heard oral arguments in the case and is expected to
hand down a ruling in June.
Senator McCain, a Republican, is
opposed to marriage equality. His wife and their daughter, Meghan
McCain, on the other hand, have expressed their support.
(Related: Meghan
McCain threatens to leave GOP over social issues, including gay
rights.)
The Phoenix reading of 8 is
being produced by Neil Giuliano, the former president of GLAAD, and
proceeds from sales benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights
(AFER), the group formed specifically to challenge Proposition 8.