Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, McCain didn’t cut a rug on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today, but he did mix it up verbally with the popular talkshow, by fielding some tough questions on Ellen’s upcoming marriage to actress Portia de Rossi in a newly legalized California civil ceremony.Ellen gave McCain a gracious welcome as she has other presidential candidates, “I don’t think anyone should judge Republicans or Democrats or gays or straight or anything. Nobody should be judged by other people’s opinions.” It wasn’t too long into the interview when Ellen said, “Let’s talk about the big elephant in the room.”

McCain said, “I think that people should be able to enter into legal agreements and it’s something that we should encourage, particularly in the case of insurance and other areas and decisions that have to be made. I just believe in the unique status of marriage between a man and a woman and I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue.”

Ellen responded, “I think that it is looked at and some people are saying the same that blacks and women did not have the right to vote. Women just got the right to vote in 1920. Blacks didn’t have the right to vote until 1870 and it just feels like there’s this old way of thinking that we are not all the same. We are all the same people. All of us. You are no different than I am. Our love is the same. To me, what it feels like, I will just speak for myself, it feels like when someone says, ‘You can still have a contract and you’ll still have insurance and you’ll get all that’ — it sounds like you can sit there, but you can’t sit there. That’s what is sounds like to me.”

The audience’s reaction to his comments was simply awkward silence. McCain did get a laugh when ellen asked, “So, you’ll walk me down the aisle?”