Mary Cheney and Partner Are About to Be Moms

Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2006 | Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

[West Coast Conservative]

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.

Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father during the 2004 reelection campaign and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. Poe, 45, a former park ranger, is renovating their Great Falls home.

News of the pregnancy will undoubtedly reignite the debate about gay marriage. During the campaign, Mary Cheney was criticized by gay activists for not being more publicly supportive of same-sex marriage. Her father said people "ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to" but deferred to the president's policy supporting a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. Cheney herself called the proposed amendment "a gross affront to gays and lesbians everywhere" in her book, "Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life," which was published in May.

Cheney has described her relationship with Poe -- whom she took to last year's White House dinner honoring Prince Charles and Camilla-- as a marriage. The two met in 1988 while playing ice hockey and began dating four years later. They moved from Colorado to Virginia a year ago to be closer to Cheney's family.

[OKIEDOC]

I hope people here can muster some common decency and show a little of the dignity and class the Cheney family demonstrates.


REPLY: I see no dignity in violating the principals set out in the bible on how to procreate a child.

I feel sorry for the Cheney family but Mary is their burden and is not for us to carry.

I believe that God may have a different take on artificially manufacturing a child.

You plea reeks of more feminazi emasculation of the already weak American male.

[trumandogz]

Perhaps Rummy is the proud Pappy and the Presidential Election for 2048 will begin the day the baby is born,

Donald Dick Rumsfeld-Cheney for President 2048!



Run, Liberals, Run!!

[paulat]

Not to defend the practice, I think kids, especially boys, need fathers, not two mothers

El Gato...this ain't agin' you...but men have not been stepping up to the plate.

...and if people say men have been beaten down by feminism...then they're not real men.

A high percentage of boys are raised by single moms these days, and most turn out okay...not ideal...but okay. The men are not there.

Two loving parents, in this case, have a trump on the single mom with serial boyfriends.

All that said...I agree with you...a mom AND a DAD are the best option.

[decal]

"Perhaps Rummy is the proud Pappy..."

As long as it's not Dick Cheney....

[trumandogz]

No human needs a Double Dose of those Dick Cheney genes.

[OKIEDOC]

What happened to the United States of America that I grew up in?

COMMENT:

It went the way of the Edsel and Hoola Hoop.

To many men lost sight of their Godly duties as masters of the house.

To many old sixties hippies survived to tear down America with the help of their comrades in arms such as Traitor John Kerry.

Hell, all us men have left to do to morph into real sissy's is to get in touch with are inner feelings and have a good cry with the gals.

[paulat]

You're going to want to see this first thing in the AM.

[paulat]

I believe that God may have a different take on artificially manufacturing a child.

My brother has two beautiful girls through in-vitro.

They took the totally moral stance of accepting however many eggs were fertilized.

There was nothing wrong in the birth of my two nieces.

[Kozak]

[trumandogz]

To save America for the long run we may need to open a "GOP Stud Farm."

Of course no Rino's could be introduced but we could find a great breading stock starting with Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin.

On the other side of the fence we could start with Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Rummy, Bush and Cheney.

[paulat]

we could find a great breading stock starting with Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin

Ask them about how they'd feel about being your heifers.

[paulat]

Of course no Rino's could be introduced but we could find a great breading stock starting with Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin.

Have you ever hear of "eugenics?" Margaret Sanger...read about it. Hope you or none of yours had a Democrat mother.

[trumandogz]

The concept is to breed the best conservative female minds in our country with with the best conservative male minds. The kids are then provided with a solid conservative education on military tactics, economics and social issues.

Once educated they will be elected to the Presidency and perhaps the Senate.


What Could Go Wrong??????

[trumandogz]

My kids have a democratic mother.

[paulat]

What Could Go Wrong??????

With all due respect...you're terribly annoying.

[dayglored]

Personally, I don't think this is any of our business.

But I find it fascinating that many (not all) anti-gay-parent folks here on FR are willing to give Mary Cheney a pass simply because she's the daughter of a favored Republican.

If this were the gay daughter of Democrats they'd want to string her up and/or throw her out of the country, and/or say it was all the fault of her Democrat parents. Where is the condemnation they heap on the opposition? Why is this not Dick and Lynne Cheney's "faults" for how they raised their daughter? I sense some uneasy hypocrisy.

Understand, my own opinion is:

• A married man and woman are the best combination for parents raising children.
• Mary's situation is none of our business.
• It's also not a matter for the media to gawk at or gossip about.
• Dick and Lynne are not "at fault" for their daughter's homosexuality, nor for her becoming a gay parent. It's Mary's life and her decisions. Same would be true if they were all Democrats.
• It's a shame the biological father won't have the benefits and responsibilities of fatherhood of this baby.
• Any meaningful condemnation or blessing should, and will, come from their God, not from us.

We ought to just wish them well and be comforted in the knowledge that their new family addition will be happy and loved. And leave them all alone.

[ridge]

We're not discussing economics. We're talking about rational people like Ms. Cheney who are not capable of having a family because of her sexual and relationship choice. She took a baby from a potential mom and dad. bottomline.

[paulat]

My kids have a democratic mother.

Well, then...you answered your own question.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I believe that God may have a different take on artificially manufacturing a child.

It's no skin off God's back, but it doesn't do much for the human race.

[SoCalPol]

Some mom & dad's should not be parents.
Working with the county attys. I have seen what some have done to their kids, most is not printable.