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Posted by: SearchEngines 3 years agoDuring the campaign, Mary Cheney was criticized by gay activists for not being more publicly supportive of same-sex marriage.
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mamasan
Dec. 7, 2006, 9:27 a.m.In the history of America there has never been a more Vile, Evil, Hypocritical Administration than this Bush Cabal.
I am all for Gay Marraige and thier right to have children.
But these Cheney/Bush frauds will lie, cheat and steal to get what they want from America.
They LIED to all the Conservative Christians. They used them to get thier slimy money grubbing azzzz in the Whitehouse.
And Miss Mary Cheney is no better. She sold her soul for the cash she got and the prestige attached so she could have the lifestyle she enjoys and the child she now is to carry.
Bush LIED about other peoples war service when he himself was too SCARED to spend even one day in Vietnam.
The Bush/Cheny Cabal LIED to get us into Iraq so they could further line thier pockets with the Black Gold.
There is no Evil these families are not capable of. Nothing is sacred to them.
So they Lied to all of us.
So we are all in the same boat now.
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walden3
Dec. 7, 2006, 8:49 a.m.interesting man bites dog story. i wish her well. no one should be forced to be a spokesman if they don't want to be. hopefully, her pornography book writing mother and her war mongering father can temper the republicans hatred for gay people.
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saneman
Dec. 7, 2006, 9:37 a.m.I don't know, but if I were her, I would not go hunting with my father.
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spkguy
Dec. 7, 2006, 2:13 p.m.jerry,
Well just imagine the look on there faces when there daughter informed them that she was gay. Do you think they said to them selves, I guess we will never see any grand children.
As far as Mary Cheney and her partner is concerned, they will have some tough questions down the road to answer like "wheres my daddy" and "how come you have a daddy and I don't"
No big deal, they'll work it out.
America, get over it! As long as the parents are good parents
thats all that really matters.
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Maui
Dec. 7, 2006, 9:23 a.m.nothing but controversy with haliburton shotgun cheney, along with and bad news bush his gremlin partner to!
so we must impeach bush and cheney asap, and put em outta their misery once and for all!
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liberty
Dec. 7, 2006, 9:37 a.m.Anyone still think that bush is against same sex marriage is alone, because he picked cheney knowing all the facts. I just wish he would stop pretending to be something he isn't
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DVS1
Dec. 7, 2006, 9:51 a.m.I wish them well. In the article it said :
Carrie Gordon Earll, a policy analyst for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family, expressed empathy for the Cheney family but depicted the newly announced pregnancy as unwise.
"Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea," said. "Love can't replace a mother and a father." It this woman blind, what about all the single parent homes in Americe. I think it is more devastating for the child to know that the reason daddy or mommy is not around is because he or she does not want you anymore. It is harsh but true. I have a Southern Baptist background, but I am far from the hatred spewing, bible flinging, Christ wannabees out there. As long as the child is loved protected and cared for, they deserve to have a child. There is no wrong in it. I have seen too many heterosexual couples screw up childrens' lives.
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mcgrievysr
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:10 a.m.DVS1----I have a Southern Baptist background, but I am far from the hatred spewing, bible flinging, Christ wannabees out there.
Good for you
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MarsDlugosz
Dec. 7, 2006, 1:16 p.m.Especially since America produces outstanding fathers like Dick Cheney or Kevin Federeline or Michael Jackson. I am a man and I know one thing for sure... men screw everything up for everybody, period.
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DVS1
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:49 p.m.Rrrrrrriiiiiggghhhhtttt simplistic, and you argument isn't? So what you are saying is deny people happiness of child because the acceptance issue of the parents. So we should deny bi-racial parents the same thing, cause of the issues with race in this country. If gay is being sick show my the sickness on paper, can it be measured diagnosed, explained, NO cause it is natural. People that think in the manner such as your self has put human thought back to the days of the pilgrims. Sad so so sad, get a clue and get the real info on things. People are people, love is love. To deny people who will truely love a child is evil in itself.
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Sieben
Dec. 7, 2006, 10 a.m.He Knew all the facts ,they just werent on the same page as his on personal agenda. As for Cheney,s daughter we are responsible for these situations as we allowed them to come of the closet with exceptance. If we continue to bend our moral values to fit our own persona agenda,s then this is to be expected . Our children are confused enough without the added burden of why life conceived from a man and a women but lived with a woman/woman & Men/Men .If its natural why can women/Women or Men/Men conceive among their groupings ??????????
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mcgrievysr
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:16 a.m.Sieben----"we are responsible for these situations as we allowed them to come of the closet with exceptance".
What's wrong with giving them acceptance?
"Our children are confused enough without the added burden of why life conceived from a man and a women but lived with a woman/woman & Men/Men .If its natural why can women/Women or Men/Men conceive among their groupings ??????????"
If you get all of your facts straight and explain to the children the how's and the why's, why does there need to be confusion?
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MntnWllm
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:02 a.m.Hey, congrats to her & hers, hyper-hypocritical politicizing aside. But, who we all should worry about is the OTHER Cheney spawn - Liz, the one who is most-following in daddy's footsteps, spooky-spooks that they are.
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mamasan
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:09 a.m.yes moutain..we must not forget these people are "dynasty builders"
The scary thing is the double speak they use fools so many sheeple.
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dBergeron
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:18 a.m.If you guys want a change in the direction of the recognization of same sex families, wouldn't you consider this a step in the right direction? Come on and stop with the bitter hatred already. Sure, Cheney is what he is. However, this is a shining example of the fact that this can happen in every kind of family, liberal or conservative, in this country. Maybe, just maybe, this is a good thing to help forward the cause. I wish them nothing but happiness. Why not look at things from a positive prospective for once?
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proud2bamerican
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:22 a.m.Just because you are against same-sex marriage does not mean your against homosexuality. I believe marriage is between a man and woman, but it doesnt mean that i dont think homosexuals shouldnt have the same rights as them. Call it whatever you want unions or whatever but not marriage. Its like calling apple an orange. And one more thing, it funny how this article spins into a bush/cheney bashing frenzy. Cheney loves his daughter, because she is a lesbian does not mean that he loves her any differently. What makes him a hypocrite? Having a lesbian daughter?? no i dont think so. He is just against same-sex marriage, not against having a lesbian daughter!
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Buggzter
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:01 a.m.proud2bamerican: I would just like to understand from you of why terminology for two people wanting to be together legally is important. I mean, you said that just because a person is against same-sex marriage doesn't mean they are against homosexuality right? Well, how come you cannot term or label a gay couple's "legal togetherness" as marriage, but would rather call it a "union" or whatever other terms out there? Do you not believe that homosexuals are on the "same" level as heterosexuals? I'm just curious as to why you would label them separately.
Hmmmm...thinking about it. It reminds me of the whole Plessy vs Ferguson case, but this issue has to do with gays and marriage. Is this another "separate but equal" issue again? I thought they got rid of that, saying "separate but equal is not equal."
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RedstateLib
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:30 a.m.Actually I hate to defend him but the VP has never said he was against gay marraige. He basically has said that it is the Admin's policy and he refuses to diagree with it, traditionally the VP stance. GHW Bush was not pro life until he became Reagans VP.
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zonkra
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:11 a.m.After the media blew her cover and chased her
after Dick and Lynn had parentally debased her
Mary and Heather
adjusted their leather
and replicated Mary's dad with a turkey baster!
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RedstateLib
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:31 a.m.The media did not blow her cover, she has been out publicly for over a decade.
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1-2-Oscar
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:18 a.m.Those critical of Mary Cheney's choices are themselves hypocritical. While they advocate "freedom to choose" for themselves, and countenance no restrictions whatever (for themselves), they would deny the same freedom to Ms. Cheney.
I believe that they are motivated more by their hatred of her father than by any consideration of her rights as a human being.
Mary Cheney can do what she wants, so long as she harms no others. I wish her well.
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proud2bamerican
Dec. 7, 2006, 12:08 p.m.Buggzter:
look all im saying is that MY belief (which im entitled to) is that marriage is for a man and a woman. For the Love between a man and a woman. Thats how it all came about right?
If are attracted to the opposite sex you are a heterosexual right? and if you are attracted to someone of the same sex you are homosexual? homo and hetero do not mean the same thing so there for they should have different names when they want to legally bind their love for each other. Again its like calling an apple and orange.
Again i want to be clear on this. I am not against homosexual couples having the same rights as married couples. Homosexual couples deserve the same rights, I do believe that their love can be as pure as a heterosexul couple. They are different but equal. Call it what you want just dont call it marriage!
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mamasan
Dec. 7, 2006, 12:22 p.m.proud would you have voted for Cheney knowing he had a gay daughter who would soon be pregnant!!!
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Buggzter
Dec. 7, 2006, 12:57 p.m.OK, that's fine. You are entitled to your own opinions, but I was just wondering what you really meant...but I gotcha! :-)
"That's how it all came about"
Based on the Bible, right?
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1-2-Oscar
Dec. 7, 2006, 12:58 p.m.In Christian churches marriage is a sacrament, reserved for a man and a woman who pledge their eternal unity. In civil law, marriage is a legal status, entitling those who are recognized by the state as married to certain rights.
The problem is that we use the same word for two different purposes, and those who would defend the religious usage feel threatened when the government acts like it wants to change things.
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proud2bamerican
Dec. 7, 2006, 1:16 p.m.mamasan:
I did vote for bush/cheney knowing cheney's daughter was a lesbian. What does his daughter being a lesbian and pregnant have to do with anything. Hey more power to her, im not against homosexuals having children. You obviously you are either a little slow or did not read my comment correctly! And thanks Buggzter, we dont need to agree with each other but just respect each other. And I respect your opinion, just dont agree with it. Maybe if more people respected other peoples opinions we would be a peaceful earth rather one filled with terror. If there is one thing I love about this country is that the 2 extreme ideas (far left and far right) somehow, someway always seem to make there way in the middle.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
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JenMurdock
Dec. 7, 2006, 1:38 p.m.Eww, that sucks! That means the cheney line of evil won't die out.
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JenMurdock
Dec. 7, 2006, 1:40 p.m.DEFINITION OF CONFUSED: Gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan. Mondo confused. I think it's worse to be gay AND conservative, because you really just end up looking stupid.
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mamasan
Dec. 7, 2006, 1:46 p.m.well Jen if you value money over integrity then be a gay conservative blogger!
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not2needy
Dec. 7, 2006, 2:31 p.m.I am a liberal, but i don't condone same sex marriage! I don't judge it, and i have several gay friends, 2 of which i have been close to for over 20 years, but the Christian part of me just won't let me say it's OK to allow 2 people of the same sex to marry.
As far as children are concerned, i think gay people are every bit as capable of raising children as straight people are, and some are probably more capable!
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mamasan
Dec. 7, 2006, 8:23 p.m.wow froggeee is this were your knowledge of Esoterica comes in handy???
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not2needy
Dec. 7, 2006, 11:46 p.m.froggy57, I actually thought about what you said before you said it, but the reason i think that gays can raise children well is the fact that one of my gay friends has 2 children and they are great kids, in college, straight, and they adore their mother. She is their biological mother and was married to their father, they still have a great relationship and he supports her and her lifestyle 100 percent.
They have made raising the kids the number one priority and they have done an excellent job, so i can't say that being in that environment is always twisted and that it breeds more of the same.
I respect your opinion though and understand the logic.
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mcgrievysr
Dec. 8, 2006, 4:09 a.m.froggy57----well, froggy, I'm straight, but if anything happened to me and my wife, I'd rather have a dedicated gay couple(male or female) raising my children than to have you do it. If you have kids you'll instill the same narrow-minded bigotry in them. Homosexuals are born gay, but bigotry has to be engendered.
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RedstateLib
Dec. 8, 2006, 1:25 a.m.Thats pretty strange logic, They can have a child but have no legal recognition they they are both acting in the role of parent. Therefore in cases where the birth parent dies the child can be ripped from the only other parent they have known and sent to live sometimes with family members that they have never even met. No sure I think that is a road to travel.
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edromar2
Dec. 7, 2006, 2:53 p.m.It is such a shame that right wing Reprobates won't allow for relationships even after they are established under the laws of more open-minded, intelligent and humane states. hey fail to follow the Constitutional directive that a law in one state is to be recognized by the laws of other states.
At least they can be sure of one thing, the child belongs to the mother--and that her partner id not father it!
However, it should not be too hard to use a stem cell from the partner to grow organs needed to produce sperm and semen adequate for Mary's partner to artificially insenminate her in an intermission between using the masager.
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froggs09
Dec. 7, 2006, 10:57 p.m.The states have the right to make their own laws. They do not have to honor other states laws. All states have to honor a federal law.
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dreamtree07
Dec. 7, 2006, 3:13 p.m.This proves that America has become the victim of backward thinking and ignorance on the part of a conservative administration...when you fail to understand cultural identity than you fail as a leader...
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RedstateLib
Dec. 8, 2006, 1:32 a.m.The constitution requires that all rights granted to a citizen of one state shall carry over to all the other states. That is why your drivers license is valid in all 50 states and you do not have to get a drivers license in each state you enter same thing for your marriage license. It is called the Full Faith and Credit Act. However for the first time in U.S. DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) passed a law overiding this clause of the Constitution only in the case of gay marriage.
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DPittman
Dec. 7, 2006, 4:22 p.m.The point of not allowing gays to marry has to to with equal protection under the law. If gays are allowed to marry then next you will have the 45 year old man that is in a loving relationship with a 10 year old boy wanting there equal protection under the law or maybe the farmer and his sheep. You change the definition of marriage then you are surely walking on a very slippery slope.
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ratoncitaverde
Dec. 7, 2006, 5:02 p.m.why do people love so much to compare homosexuality to pedophelia or b e a s t iality??? the difference people so conveniently forget is that it is love between two CONSENTING ADULTS (humans, for that matter)!
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ratoncitaverde
Dec. 7, 2006, 5:07 p.m."It's very disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring into the world a child that will never have a father,"
"Love can't replace a mother and a father."
perhaps she forgot about the thousands of children in this country whose fathers walk out on them, end up in jail, or just die. but i guess thats ok because their mother isnt attracted to other women?
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whakked
Dec. 7, 2006, 5:21 p.m.If I were Mary I'd keep my partner from going hunting with my father any time soon.
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WillW
Dec. 7, 2006, 5:45 p.m.Mary Cheney's decision does raise a huge politcal question, just no one has asked it yet. Everyone is so concerned with the fact that the child is growing up without a father and what will the child think, but we as a race of humans tend to outcast anyone not like us.
It was all about religion in the times of the great religious wars, then up until now it was about the color of ones skin. Now we are looking at discrimination based on genetics. The human code was crack a few years ago and now exploiting its uses could in fact create a whole new definition to discrimination.
I am not saying what they did was right or wrong because we don't have the right to judge other humans, but it does put a twist on humanity which was eventually going to happen anyways. As this child grows up, will other child make fun of her so much she becomes the next Dr. Evil.
Maybe instead of focusing on what has already happened, we should focus on what is to come.
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thalazy
Dec. 7, 2006, 6:31 p.m.I find it funny how people are stupid enough to believe two gay people can't raise a child together when it is a proven fact that they can(it's been done for decades). I know people who have and guess what their kids are all straight, leave good lives and one is happily married and with kids and as far as I know they aren't warped or perverted. Kids want to be loved and that is all they could care less if it's a man and a woman or two men and two women. people forget that there are family member's that are can take roles in the child's life and teach them anything that the two gays or lesbians cannot. People are raised in one parent household's all the time where a mother or father has to take the place of the other, so it can be done.
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RedstateLib
Dec. 8, 2006, 1:36 a.m.Froggy said
"***that argument has no legs. Just because someone can do something and has done it, doesn't mean it is a good idea. duh. If I were you, I wouldn't be throwing the term 'stupid' around quite so loosely. It sounds like a self portrait by the author."
Yes I see what you mean, your parents were able to reproduce but maybe the world would have been better off if they hadn't.
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amazed
Dec. 7, 2006, 7:57 p.m.The thing that is amazing me most about this blog is the feeling that Mary Cheney's lesbianism and pregnancy have anything to do at all with Dick Cheney. Even more amazing to me is the gleeful declarations of what a hypocrite he is because is daughter is out and openly living with another woman.
Mary Cheney is not 15, she's in her 30's. Is every one of your lifestyle choices and political convictions the exact choice your parents would have made for you? If you answer this "yes", you're either a liar or an automaton that never grew up. Is everyone of your children living the life you've chosen for them and in lockstep with your every opinion? If you answer yes to this, you're either an extreme control freak or you're kidding themselves.
(con'td)
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amazed
Dec. 7, 2006, 8:01 p.m.Dick Cheney is responsible for Dick Cheney's opinions. Mary Cheney is responsible for her opinions and lifestyles. I doubt that Lynn & Dick threw a huge celebration when their daughter came out. It was probably a huge disappointment to them (as I would venture it would be for ANY parent regardless of your opinion of gayness and gay rights). But does it really make the Cheney's hypocrites because they accepted their daughter rather than disown her?
Or are you just so blinded by your hatred of anything to do with this administration that you jump on any chance to trash them?
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