Bush: happy for Cheney's gay daughter pregnancy

Reuters ^ | 12/15/06

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney's pregnant lesbian daughter Mary will make a "fine mom," President George W. Bush said, sidestepping his past comment that a child ideally would be raised by a mother and father.

Mary Cheney, 37, and her longtime partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their first child, which would be the sixth grandchild for the vice president. Cheney was hired last year as an executive for America Online.

"I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I'm happy for her," Bush said in an interview with People magazine.

[1rudeboy]

John the Baptist is dead, and unavailable for comment. I'm asking you.

[derllak]

I'm not sure who that is, but yes I would. I'm not saying anybody is perfect. There are children from traditional families that are messed up, I grant you. But a man and a woman bring different things into a marriage and into child's life that compliment each other. I believe a child needs both perspectives and both genders to have the best chances of growing up stable. Yes, I'm sure this child will be loved, but he/she will be missing something critical WITHOUT a dad in it's life. That's just so sad to me.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"I swear, some of you that are so offended by this seem to get off on it."

Can you imagine the upheaval among conservatives this would have created if in 1971 Julie Nixon announced that she and her lesbian "wife" were adopting a baby???

The Party and the nation would have gone into nuclear meltdown and you wouldn't have been able to find someone willing to vote Republican in Guam!

The point is, times have radically changed - for the worse. They have changed to the extent that deviancy of a very public nature is welcomed and congratulated by our "conservative" leadership.

Just because a Republican does it, doesn't make it right.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"John the Baptist is dead, and unavailable for comment. I'm asking you."

Then you missed my point.

[KDD]

How I think of the GOP and it's relationship with the RR.

[Irish Eyes]

Bush: happy for Cheney's gay daughter pregnancy

This headline is as misleading as usual. This is not what he said as the headline wants us to believe.He said "I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I'm happy for her," I am getting sick of the media always trying to stir things up. What ever happened to just reporting the facts.

[Sunsong]

I'm not questioning whether the child will be loved or not.

Good. I'm not sure what *normal* means anymore with the amount of divorce, fornication and adultery in this country. If a child is fortunate enough to live in an *ideal* situation - I think we can all celebrate that. But I see no reason to condemn Mary Cheney - who as far as I can tell will be a good mother and is part of a loving and decent extended family.

[Howlin]

I can imagine all kinds of stuff, but I live in the real world and have enough to deal with in my own life without sticking my nose in other people's business.

And nobody gave one rat's A$$ about Julie Nixon even married a GUY; she was a dullard.

Get your values from somewhere besides celebrities and politicians. You'll be a lot happier.

Well, probably not...

[Howlin]

Anger and fear drive some people insane ...but is sure fills up the coffers of the "group" that leads this "campaigns," doesn't it?

And I knew that about you.....LOL.

[Vaquero]

Happyness in RINOland....isnt that special.....

we had Pop bronzed....

[1rudeboy]

I'm asking you what sort of a "calling" enables one to be rude to one's host? So far, you have been utterly unable (or unwilling) to respond. I want to hear an answer in your words, please. I can read the Bible on my own time.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"I can imagine all kinds of stuff, but I live in the real world and have enough to deal with in my own life without sticking my nose in other people's business."

Concern over the declining moral health of the nation is no more "sticking my nose in other people's business" as concern over a declining business climate. The acceptance of "other lifestyles" and alternative families is going to bite us all eventually. Go read Theodore Dalrymple if you want a up close and personal look at what happens to a society that abandons traditional morality.


BTW, if your so pressed for time with "all you have to deal with" then why are you posting on this thread???



"Get your values from somewhere besides celebrities and politicians. You'll be a lot happier. "

I do, in fact. I get them from the Bible. That's why I have the moral sense to recognize the wrongness of this "chic" lesbian marraige abomination.

[1rudeboy]

"Satan!"

[PetroniusMaximus]

"I'm asking you what sort of a "calling" enables one to be rude to one's host?"

The kind of calling that cares enough about another human being to warn them of the eventual consequences of their actions. The basic problem here is that M. Cheney is involved in a sinful, lesbian lifestyle. She will, more than likely, make a wreck of her life and that of her child. The end result of her life's choices is that, unless she turns from her sin, she will die and be cut off forever from God in hell.

Is that rude to tell someone? Well yes, maybe in the sissified world in which we live it is considered "rude" to warn someone of the impending consequences of their actions. But on the day of Judgment the people who found repentance through the "rude" comments of another will love that person for it.


(The part about the "host & hostess" - you added that on to the question, so I don't feel obliged to answer it.)

[garv]

This is a "rock and a hard place issue" for the President and his comments were to be expected. He can't throw his VP's daughter under the bus and not cause a firestorm.

Aside from the issue of gays and lesbians raising children (which I believe should be discouraged) Mary Cheney's impending parenthood brings up another issue, that of the current trend of "child as accessory".

Whether it's Madonna buying African children, psycho Tom Cruise and his Stepford incubator, "Brangelina", Brittney Spears, or most egregious of all, Rosie O'Donnell, we now live in a world where children are viewed by the elites as pets to be acquired for cute photo ops, but abandoned on a whim for pantyless benders.

I have no idea what kind of mother Mary Cheney will be (I suspect she will be fine), but I do know that after 33 years of legalized abortion we have so devalued the lives of children that celebrities sport them like the latest handbag and probably value them less.

[Alia]

No, it's not.

[DallasJ7]

If one were to look only at this thread, they'd think that the state of "live and let live" conservatism was in dire straits. It appears there are plenty of judgemental Christians here to cast stones at Mary Cheney. Yet I suspect if one were to look at the lives of these judgers, one would find many far worse things than the act of bringing a child into a clearly loving, if non-traditional home.

[gidget7]

"What in gods name do you expect the president to say? The times they are a changing and polite society will have to adapt. Sorry folks."



No comment or something to the effect, that's what! And No, never, or perhaps you didn't know the Lord compels us to not adapt to things he finds abominable.

[gidget7]

Conservatism=common sense.

Progressive ism=doom and is not the least bit progressive, in fact it is regression, back to ancient Rome, and Sodom and Gomorrah

[PetroniusMaximus]

"If one were to look only at this thread, they'd think that the state of "live and let live" conservatism was in dire straits."

"Live and let live" ends when high profile people start rubbing their abominations in your face.