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Mary Cheney and Partner Are About to Be Moms
Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2006 | Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

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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To: Sunsong

I hope they have a healthy baby and wish them well.


281 posted on 12/06/2006 9:20:23 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: West Coast Conservative

Congrats to Mary. I think she's just darling and I don't care what anyone thinks of my opinion on this.


282 posted on 12/06/2006 9:22:03 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Sunsong
I hope people here can muster some common decency and show a little of the dignity and class the Cheney family demonstrates.

Decency and class would have meant that this birth was kept on the down-low, instead of broadcast in the WAPO.

There's nothing decent or classy about bringing a child into a sick relationship without a father and then proudly boasting about it in the media. It's a disgrace.
283 posted on 12/06/2006 9:22:18 AM PST by Antoninus (When your party's platform is "Vote for US because THEY will be worse," prepare to lose.)
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To: highball

I think that the majority of conservatives still want to stay out of bedrooms. They don't care what people do in their bedrooms, but they think that same-sex marriage and adoptions, by gays, should be illegal. These actions don't involve bedrooms, since not many people get married in a bedroom or adopt in a bedroom.


284 posted on 12/06/2006 9:24:06 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: buck61; Admin Moderator
Yup. This is it for me on FR. Republican Party site this is, but it's not conservative. Too many pro-aborts, for starters. While fiscal conservatism is always respected, this fawning praise of Mademoiselle Cheney exemplifies that most forum members relegate social conservatives to the extreme fringes of the party. This is a great site for news and current events. It's a nice place to vent, too, but that's not spiritually satisfying. Living life by being faithful to your values and the people you love is the way. So I'm out.
285 posted on 12/06/2006 9:24:29 AM PST by two134711
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To: Dallas59
Must be difficult for Dick Cheney sometimes.

I don't think so. He's been in Washington so long, any sense of conscience he may have had has been long since cauterized.

DC is the place where common sense and decency go to die.
286 posted on 12/06/2006 9:24:43 AM PST by Antoninus (When your party's platform is "Vote for US because THEY will be worse," prepare to lose.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

They could have simply adopted me and avoided in advance all those problems with teen pregnancy, skateboarding chemicalized skinhead youth, homeschooling versus private school, high car insurance, childhood diseases, and on and on.


287 posted on 12/06/2006 9:25:30 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: PhilCollins

True, but you skipped over the part about "private lives."

Doesn't have to be in the bedroom to be none of our business.


288 posted on 12/06/2006 9:26:23 AM PST by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: dr luba

Read Romans


289 posted on 12/06/2006 9:26:37 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: linda_22003
No legislator is going to be the first to stand up and propose laws that prohibit women from trying to become mothers.

In Afghanistan or Iran, I'm sure such laws are already in place.

290 posted on 12/06/2006 9:27:04 AM PST by Wormwood (the happiest sadist)
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To: two134711

Drama Queen


291 posted on 12/06/2006 9:27:48 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: two134711
Yup. This is it for me on FR. Republican Party site this is, but it's not conservative. Too many pro-aborts, for starters. While fiscal conservatism is always respected, this fawning praise of Mademoiselle Cheney exemplifies that most forum members relegate social conservatives to the extreme fringes of the party. This is a great site for news and current events. It's a nice place to vent, too, but that's not spiritually satisfying. Living life by being faithful to your values and the people you love is the way. So I'm out.

That's your Opus?

They sure don't make 'em like they used to.

292 posted on 12/06/2006 9:29:14 AM PST by Wormwood (the happiest sadist)
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To: dr luba

The Bible contains more than the words of Jesus, often highlighted in red letters. With regard to homosexuality or other sexual immorality, start with the second half of Romans 1.


293 posted on 12/06/2006 9:34:42 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are open homosexuals in public.

Homosexuality is ONLY about sex.
They put their homosexual behavior in public.
their sex lives are public.

Its part of the homosexual fetish to be public.

Also society has a vested interest in promoting the father of the child and the mother of the child form a family unit. This "union" is only about their sexual gratification. The child has nothing to do with Mary Cheny sex partner other than the mental damage the child WILL be cause in the homosexual environment.


294 posted on 12/06/2006 9:36:42 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: snugs
Drama Queen

I think we should alert Mr. DeMille that he's ready for his close-up....

295 posted on 12/06/2006 9:36:48 AM PST by paulat (about)
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To: Sunsong

37 and 45 are advanced ages to be playing with dolls in the bedroom.


296 posted on 12/06/2006 9:37:32 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: longtermmemmory
There should be laws requiring only married NORMAL couples have access to artificial fertilizaiton clinics.

Define,"NORMAL". How far back in ones history do the "deciders" of "NORMAL" go back? Two years...20 years....6 months? Is it ever up for review? Do we continue to test for the "normalcy" of the parents throughout the raising of the child, and then take the child away from the parents if they no longer meet the definition, whatever that definition may be?

297 posted on 12/06/2006 9:38:41 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: snugs

Romans is by Paul. He was not a disciple, and never met Christ. In it he recapitulates Old Testament theology.

When did Christ speak of homosexuality?


298 posted on 12/06/2006 9:42:34 AM PST by dr luba
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To: knarf

Gad that's nasty.

299 posted on 12/06/2006 9:43:18 AM PST by RodgerD (Don't Abolish America. Defeat the Bush-Pelosi Mexico-Merger Scheme)
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To: dr luba

You either believe the whole bible is the divine word of God and should be treated as a whole not just pick and choose the bits you want or not.


300 posted on 12/06/2006 9:44:15 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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