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
And who knows, maybe she's actually gay and we'll have the opportunity to prove your prediction accurate.
More likely, though, she's straight, and instead we'll have to pillory her for having a child out of wedlock or something. Gee, when Hillary becomes President we'll get to hash through all of Chelsea's adventures as a 20-something. Poor girl never had a chance...
The usual anti-gay parent folks are omninously silent. I suspect a sneak attack and blizzard of posts at a later date...
Because most of us are hypocrites. Democrats decided they liked Clinton more than they believed in sexual harassment laws and rape laws. Conservatives like Cheney more than they hate homosexuals. If a Republican acted like Clinton, democrats would string them up. If a democrat politician had a gay daughter having a child this way, people here would be screaming with outrage. It's one of life's lessons that I have learned very well. My mother in law is convinced that Rush Limbaugh's 3 wives all married him for the money and he never took drugs and everybody was lying, including I guess Rush about it. She listens 15 hours a week. If Clinton had the drug problem, she would go on for weeks and months at a time about what a scourge he is. My liberal cousin continues to harp about Newt Gingrich getting some on the side, but it was ok with Clinton. Almost everybody is a hypocrite. It's reality.
I'm not thrilled with this news (more over the turkey baster than the gay-parent bit) but that's just me. I'm a Cheney fan and think he and Lynn have handled the press and tactless types like John Edwards with great class. At this point in life, their task will be to love another grandchild. It isn't for Dick to moralize himself a fifth heart-attack over his 37 yr old daughter!
"No kidding .......if this was Chelsea Clinton this thread would be fire + brimstone and 2000 posts long."
If this was Chelsea Clinton (or some other Democrat), she'd be on the talkshows promoting lesbian parenting as the new wave of progressivism.
The difference is between a private life publicized inadvertently (because Dick Cheney is VP) and a life which is intentionally directed to make publicity and push an agenda.
Perhaps, but I think that would have more to do with the loathing of any though of there being yet another clinton on this earth.