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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Perhaps. Failing that, I'm willing to bet the future Caliphate will be VERY moral.
Maybe Dick doesn't have any moral problems with Mary's choices to begin with.
Are you sure?
Sometimes I wonder on this forum but though I tend to hang out with convince me that it is just the kooky few who make a lot of noise.
Whoops meant to say those not though
LOL. FR sure is a hoot when we are defending our guys and/or their offspring.
But can't you just imagine the upcoming book, "The Vice President's Granddaughter Has Two Mommies?" It has a much stronger ring than "Heather".
What had that to do with my post?
Welcome to FR. Did you sign up today just to post that?
He also didn't speak about rape or child molestation. No one in his audience would have the belief that homosexual behavior was acceptable.
Jesus talks about human sexuality in Matthew 19:
4"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Probably - I supsect has been here before and been banned
They're raising their child to be twice the child of hell that they are. Just hope and pray, he/she sees the light and walks away from the sinful folly of the "parents".
Tell me something... Can you picture Mary and her (what husband? wife?... don't really want to know!:)... fighting with their buddies and the ACLU, for the "kids?" :) No?
Perhaps I "see much into it," paranoid? possible. Hey, whatever you believe, is fine with me :)
LOL............if you catch me on a bad day, nope!
Nah, nah, na nah nah!
If what you posit is so, and the Old Testament is Law for Jews and Gentiles alike, then why do so many Christian sects "pick and choose" which part of the bible to follow and which not?
It seems to me that many of the laws of the Old Testament are not being followed.
For instance: Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins unwittingly in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.
Where are the bulls? It's been a long time since I've seen a burnt offering. There should be huge fires out in Colorado!
Or: "If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days."
Are we making sure we keep all menstruating women and new mothers* out of the churches? After all, they are unclean.
The Bible tells us so.
(* This is followed, to some extent, in the Orthodox church. New mothers have to have a cleansing ritual performed before they can enter church after giving birth. But no one checks to see if I'm menstruating.)
Most of our immigration is coming from Latin America, which is historically Catholic, with a sizable evangelical minority, or from East and South Asia (some Muslims from Pakistan or Bangladesh, but mostly a mixture of Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, and nonbelievers). Unlike the case in Western Europe, Muslims are a decidedly small minority of America's immigrants.
We may have serious problems, but the possibility of radical Islam coming to power is not one of them.
That pretty much covers it.
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