Mary Cheney to have a baby

[Balta1701]

There's just something about this, not sure what it is, that makes me smile.

 

Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.

 

It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night.

 

And one more worthwhile note...

In November, Virginia voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions; state law is unclear on whether Poe could have full legal rights as a parent of Cheney's child. The circumstances of the pregnancy will remain private, said the source close to the couple. This is the first child for both.

In other words, one of those hate amendments that the right has used for years to try to pump up election turnout among the base may deny Mary Cheney's partner many of the rights of a normal parent.

[Rex Kickass]

They should move to New Jersey.

[knightni]

Think they used an applicator shaped like Jodi Foster's fist?

[Gregory Pratt]

Let's hope the Democratic candidate in 2008 doesn't mention Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter's daughter in the debates.

[Heads22]

Let's hope the Democratic candidate in 2008 doesn't mention Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter's daughter in the debates.

 

1.) Why would that happen?

2.) Why just single out the democratic candidate?

[Damen]

Let's hope the Democratic candidate in 2008 doesn't mention Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter's daughter in the debates.

 

 

Good one.

[NorthSideSox72]

1.) Why would that happen?

2.) Why just single out the democratic candidate?

He's referring to the one VP debate in 2004, between Edwards and Cheney. Edwards tried to make a bridge comment and brought up Cheney's daughter, but it didn't go over well with everyone.

[kapkomet]

He's referring to the one VP debate in 2004, between Edwards and Cheney. Edwards tried to make a bridge comment and brought up Cheney's daughter, but it didn't go over well with everyone.

I'm sure that was a botched joke too.

[NorthSideSox72]

I'm sure that was a botched joke too.

No, that was a botched olive branch, if I recall. Different tactic, similar result.

[Balta1701]

He's referring to the one VP debate in 2004, between Edwards and Cheney. Edwards tried to make a bridge comment and brought up Cheney's daughter, but it didn't go over well with everyone.

Actually, both Senator Edwards and Senator Kerry tried to bring it up in the Debates, Sen. Edwards while sitting across from the Vice President, provoking Mr. Cheney to thank him for the kind remarks about his family and say nothing more. When Gay Marriage was brought up in the 3rd Presidential debate, Mr. Kerry's first words were to bring up the VP's daughter, provoking Lynne Cheney to give a press conference saying "This is not a good man" for trying to use his daughter as a campaign issue.

 

Yeah it was sleazy, by both of them. I rank it at just the same level of sleaze as the hate amendments themselves.

[Rex Kickass]

It should also be noted that Cheney's daughter was the GLBT outreach coordinator for the Pres. campaign in 04, IIRC.

[bmags]

you guys think david crosby was the father again!?!?!?

[FlaSoxxJim]

you guys think david crosby was the father again!?!?!?

 

His liver may not work, but his li'l swimmers sure do!

[Balta1701]

Tossing this into the mix

 

Conservative leaders voiced dismay Wednesday at news that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of

Dick Cheney, is pregnant, while a gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" for serving in an administration that has opposed recognition of same-sex couples.

 

...

Family Pride, which advocates on behalf of gay and lesbian families, noted that Virginia last month became one of 27 states with a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

 

"Unless they move to a handful of less restrictive states, Heather will never be able to have a legal relationship with her child," said Family Pride executive director Jennifer Chrisler.

 

The couple "will quickly face the reality that no matter how loved their child will be. ... he or she will never have the same protections that other children born to heterosexual couples enjoy," Chrisler said. "Grandfather Cheney will no doubt face a lifetime of sleepless nights as he reflects on the irreparable harm he and his administration have done to the millions of American gay and lesbian parents and their children."

 

For years, Mary Cheney's openness about her sexual orientation had posed a dilemma for conservative activists who admire Dick Cheney's stance on many issues but consider homosexuality a sin.

 

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America described the pregnancy as "unconscionable."

 

"It's very disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring into the world a child that will never have a father," said Crouse, a senior fellow at the group's think tank. "They are encouraging people who don't have the advantages they have."

 

Crouse said there was no doubt that the news would, in conservatives' eyes, be damaging to the Bush administration, which already has been chided by some leaders on the right for what they felt was halfhearted commitment to anti-abortion and anti-gay-rights causes in this year's general election.

 

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."

 

The vice president's office declined to elaborate on the circumstances of Mary Cheney's pregnancy.

 

The news was welcomed by the president of the largest national gay-rights group, Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign.

 

"Mary and Heather's decision to have a child is an example that families in America come in all different shapes and sizes," he said. "The bottom line is that a family is made up of love and commitment."

[mr_genius]

a gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" for serving in an administration that has opposed recognition of same-sex couples.

 

 

that is so melodramatic

Edited December 7, 2006 by mr_genius

[Gregory Pratt]

Good one.

 

I'm glad somebody got it and liked my joke about the silly Democratic Johns.

[sox4lifeinPA]

 

that is so melodramatic

 

My guess is that ol' Dick sleeps nice and heavy at night.... compliments of our friend JD.

 

 

I heard that Cheney loves Scrubs.

 

[juddling]

i bet Mary's dad thought he was the only Dick in her life! I guess not.

 

[mr_genius]

i bet Mary's dad thought he was the only Dick in her life!

 

 

zing!

 

[Greg The Bull Luzinski]

This sounds like the work of a turkey baster!

[sox4lifeinPA]

This sounds like the work of a turkey baster!

 

 

and someone with dexterity and skill.... one might call him a master...............baster

[jasonxctf]

personally im just glad that Cheney will get to stare at the biggest issue his party currently stands against, each and every holiday for the rest of his life.