Yoo hoo, John, call your wife

With John McCain for a husband, I'm not sure I'd be such a huge fan of marriage. But unlike her rudderless partner, Cindy McCain has held firm to the principal of marriage equality for everyone, straight or gay.  Still, if anyone has reason to waver, it's her.

Now she is lending her voice to an anti-bulllying video that is part of the "it gets better" movement aimed at stemming the rash of gay teen suicides that has spread across the country.  Woven among other celebrity cameos, McCain chastises the government -- if not her husband himself -- for failing to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, making it clear that if the government will discriminate, so will bullies.

The video is sponsored by NOH8, whose last campaign featured Cindy McCain and daughter Meghan, among others, in ads protesting California's Prop 8 ban on gay marriage.

The stars, in staccato fashion, lay out the grim statistics:  Nine out of 10 LGBT students have reported being bullied in school, and two-thirds say they feel unsafe.  Of these, 28 percent have dropped out.  According to the video, LGBT youth are six to nine time more likely to attempt suicide than straight teens, with more than 25 percent of transgender and a third of lesbian, gay and bisexual teens saying they have tried to kill themselves.

 "What's convincing these kids things won't get better?" asks Gene Simmons of the heavy-metal band KISS.

McCain, in a line sure to infuriate many Republicans, responds: "Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future."

• "They can't get married"
• "They can't donate blood"
• "They can't serve our country openly," adds McCain, taking aim at DADT a second time. 
• "They can't adopt."

Then, she hammers home her point: "Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens, why shouldn't they?"

Any one of these celebrities, who also include Denise Richards, Dave Navarro and Dr. Drew Pinsky, could have read these words. But to have them come from Cindy McCain -- whose husband is leading the fight in the Senate against DADT repeal -- adds fire and credence to the charge of government failure on this issue.

The clear message is that if the government can't get it's act together, kids won't, either.  It's saying adults need to start acting like adults, and learn to get along, and work problems out, and be kind to each other, and accept differences, because lives are at stake. It could be any one of our kids.

There's another clear message in there, but I'm not sure John McCain will get it.