http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/....ap/index.html
This story kind of annoys me because of the hypocricy Cheney (both Dick and Mary) exhibit in it.
Yes, Mary Cheney deserves to be able to have a child and she's right in that loving, gay parents can raise children just as well - and have those children be just as well-adjusted, happy, secure and taken care of - than any straight parent. Sexual orientation has never been shown to have any negative effect on child-rearing abilities or the mental and emotional health of the child, as the ultra-conservative types try and suggest. She has every right to have a child.
But at the same time, the Republicans are the ones that make this such an issue. For Dick Cheney to have gotten so pissed at Wolf Blitzer and accused him of going "over the line" because it was a question about his daughter is bullshit.
Every lesbian is someone's daughter. Every gay man is someone's son. If Dick Cheney doesn't like seeing people politicize what he views as his family's personal business, he needs to take a long, hard look at how the Republican Party has politicized and criticized the lives of millions of gay Americans and their familes and how millions of parents of gays and lesbians see their children being politicized and attacked by the Republican Party over and over and over again - at the very least with each new election season. Mary Cheney's been a part of that with her work on behalf of her father's campaigns and work advocating what her father and his party stand for.
Maybe, when Dick Cheney gets so testy and pissed everytime someone brings up the issue, he needs to think about how parents of gays and lesbians across the country might feel everytime the Republicans attack homosexuality as a sinful vice undeserving of parenthood, marriage, civil rights, equality or even human dignity. If Dick Cheney thinks it's "over the line", you'd think he'd understand just how "over the line" the Republicans go with countless families across the country everytime they pull their anti-homosexual bullshit.
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