on the upcoming birth of a new Grandbaby.
And here's hoping it will be a healthy, conservative child
Posted on 12/05/2006 11:04:34 PM PST by 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.
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"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them . . .There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being . . .
...I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
. . . I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'"
Agree on all counts.
(That's a paraphrase of Joshua, Joshua 24:15.)
FGS, you are going to quote Wikipedia to me? *Shrug*
She has a RIGHT to live her life, even if you don't like it.
I know how these perverts think.
That has to be the scariest post I have read on Free Republic ever. How do you know how they think???????
Like many in the GOP, he has Soul-O-Vision™
I doubt they have read the book which has one chapter on this the rest is really just annodotes of being part of a politcal family and the word family obviously means something to them which I fear a lot posting here would know nothing about.
lol.
Whew. That was some fire and brimstone from Sen. Goldwater! And I agree with what he said.
You're an idiot. Welcome to Free Republic.
What do you have when 32 hockey players are sitting at the bar...?
A full set of teeth...
A great man---who in today's GOP would never even make it out of the Primaries.
Well said, I notice the same thing.
Excellent! I remember that one well. Good job Registered.
"I didn't see a single post that called the decision to bring a child into this relationship what it really is: EVIL, pure and simple."
My $0.02.
It's evil.
It's not ok.
the couple met while playing ice hockey!
classic!
why is it that gay women look like men most of the time - why just not marry a man - thats why its a sickness or deficient chemicals within.
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