But it's her position on equal marriage that has garnered McCain the most attention. In a speech to the Log Cabin Republicans, she said that "old-school Republicans" were "scared shitless" of the future and retreating further and further into an ultraconservative crouch. In late May, a week after the New York State Assembly passed a bill that would legalize equal marriage, she penned an open letter to New York Republicans in the Daily News, which said that GOP support for the bill "will leave a legacy that will make us all proud."