Gay activists arrested at McCain's offices

Activists from a group called Human Equal Rights Organizers, or HERO, were arrested at U.S. Sen. John McCain's office in Phoenix on April 26.

Meg Sneed, Jimmy Gmender, Lee Walters, Luisa Valdez and Lonnie Alien Howard-Stidham had refused to leave the office until McCain spoke with them about Howard-Stidham's 2007 discharge from the Coast Guard under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

The group had vowed, "We will not leave McCain's office until the senator meets with his constituents and stands behind his 2006 quote that 'The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing …