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Bush: happy for Cheney's gay daughter pregnancy
Reuters ^ | 12/15/06

Posted on 12/16/2006 11:22:33 AM PST by Blackirish

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.


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KEYWORDS: barfalert; busybodies; familyvalues; fantasy; fatherlesschild; fertilty; fetish; homosexual; liberalism; liberals; makingnice; moralabsolutes; moralrelativism; perverts; purists
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To: PetroniusMaximus
BTW, if your so pressed for time with "all you have to deal with" then why are you posting on this thread???

I'm not "pressed for time." I just pick and choose what and when I want to do something.

Frankly, I love watching you Holier-Than-Thou types do your thing.

And while I'm watching, I wonder how perfect your life is that you feel you're in any position at all to lecture others.

161 posted on 12/16/2006 3:23:00 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
"Frankly, I love watching you Holier-Than-Thou types do your thing."

I'm forced to read, from your failure to address the substance of my points, that you don't have a rebuttal.



"And while I'm watching, I wonder how perfect your life is that you feel you're in any position at all to lecture others."

Do you approve of homosexuality?
162 posted on 12/16/2006 3:30:35 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: JCEccles; BunnySlippers
"What do you expect them to say?"

That a child should be raised by a mother and father.

Bush has said this, more than once.

Do you expect him to say he's not happy this child is going to be born?

163 posted on 12/16/2006 3:37:37 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Finalapproach29er
Bush withers when given a chance to tell the truth.

Not true.

Bush has never "withered" when defending the institution of marriage, and opposing gay marriage.

He clearly said that he thinks a child should have both a mother and a father.

164 posted on 12/16/2006 3:40:59 PM PST by Jorge
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Values from the Bible?

Such as When to Stone Your Children. or When to Stone Your Whole Family , or maybe how to conduct yourself as a proper master of your slaves?

Did you follow this law and if it does not apply to you do you agree with it?

What if my sister in law and I do not want to marry each other? Are we violating your "values?" What if I already have a wife?

I know what your views are on religious tolerance from this Godly decree. Harsh.

Whatever you do...Leviticus 19:27-28 says

27:Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

How many stories like this have inspired your "values?"

And these are just a few off the top of my head. There are many more such exanples. Would you like to see?

165 posted on 12/16/2006 3:41:00 PM PST by KDD (Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu >)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
(The part about the "host & hostess" - you added that on to the question, so I don't feel obliged to answer it.)

If there's anyone more annoying than someone who has to be dragged into a direct answer, instead of quoting from the Bible, it's someone who does the above and has a short attention-span. I refer you to your comment #58. I gave you a number of chances to answer--I'm through wasting my time here.

166 posted on 12/16/2006 3:43:13 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: KDD
"And these are just a few off the top of my head. There are many more such exanples. Would you like to see?"


I welcome defending the Bible and answering the questions of any open-minded person.

Where do you want to start?
167 posted on 12/16/2006 3:48:45 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: KDD

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168 posted on 12/16/2006 3:49:19 PM PST by pettifogger
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To: PetroniusMaximus

You can start by answering the questions posted prior.


169 posted on 12/16/2006 3:51:56 PM PST by KDD (Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu >)
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To: 1rudeboy
"I refer you to your comment #58. I gave you a number of chances to answer--I'm through wasting my time here."

You can tell yourself that if you wish, but the fact of the matter is that I gave you a solid answer. You just don't like my answer - and you probably don't like the idea that on the day of Judgment we will all have to stand before God and give an account of our lives.

If the "host and hostess" don't like it... so be it. There are greater crimes in life than being "rude".
170 posted on 12/16/2006 3:55:27 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I have a funny image in my mind of you at my dinner party being taunted by a bunch of drunken Irish.


171 posted on 12/16/2006 3:58:42 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Jorge

Gays who shack up can make babies now?

Whoa.

I guess I'm the odd ball in this nation; I just don't understand this fatherless type of liberalism.

If it's okay with God, I guess I'll just shut my mouth.


172 posted on 12/16/2006 3:59:11 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush if given a chance.)
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To: 1rudeboy
I have a funny image in my mind of you at my dinner party being taunted by a bunch of drunken Irish.

As long as they don't kick him in the "stones" he will be all right.

173 posted on 12/16/2006 4:03:34 PM PST by KDD (Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu >)
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To: rovenstinez

But George W is the Commander in Chief, and we all tune our instruments to his pitch pipe. If he says this is GOOD, then it must be good for everyone....

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Did he really say that? I am pretty sure he said that she will make a good mom. That is not the same as saying that the situation that is producing this child is good. Also, he is not saying that he is happy about the whole situation. He merely says that he is happy for her. You and I both know that there are oodles or reporters trying to get him and other GOP figures to say something negative about Miss Cheney.

If Mary Cheney was a little less self-centered perhaps she would not have put her parents into such a situation. But what can Mr. and Mrs. Cheney or the President do except put a good face on it?


174 posted on 12/16/2006 4:07:45 PM PST by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Finalapproach29er
If it's okay with God, I guess I'll just shut my mouth.

At least until your posts start making sense.

175 posted on 12/16/2006 4:10:28 PM PST by Jorge
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To: rovenstinez

You seem to be putting words in his mouth. He didn't say it was good. He said the polite thing you say to someone having a child, that you are happy for them, and said she would be "a fine mom". That's hardly an ecstatic endorsement of gay parenthood. He said a very few words about it, and was simply polite.
He has previously said a child should be raised by a mother and father. Wishing Mary Cheney well is not an indication he has changed his view on that.


176 posted on 12/16/2006 4:13:14 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: KDD
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Irish Proverb
177 posted on 12/16/2006 4:19:25 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: protest1
He sidestepped the issue when questioned by People magazine about whether he still held that belief."

You fall for the ploy of the press, which is if someone doesn't specifically mention something, that means they are avoiding it. So the interviewer asks the President what he thinks of Mary Cheney's child, he makes a polite comment, and the press extrapolates "AHA! He's avoiding the issue, he's changed his mind! The base will be upset!"
This thread is full of fools.
178 posted on 12/16/2006 4:19:36 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: derllak

Whose is the father? I've like Mary Cheney, but I agree children have hard enough time in today's world. If it's a boy I feel sincerely sorry that he will not have a father for a role model.

God Bless this child.


179 posted on 12/16/2006 4:25:26 PM PST by not2worry (What goes around comes around.)
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To: KDD
No one is proposing that the entire Old Testament Jewish law be imposed on everyone. Nor is anyone proposing that the New Testament be imposed, with its baptism and Lord's Supper and all the rest. But you seem to be saying that because the OT and NT are not in their entirety part of our laws (never have been) that none of the principles found in the Bible can be part of our laws. That simply is not so. If it were, you couldn't have laws against murder, theft, adultery, or any number of things. We would be unable to have any marriage or family laws even loosely based on Judeo-Christian values.

So your point is a non-point. It proves nothing. Fact is, Mary Cheney is pregnant by a man, not a woman. The baby has a father. With the child being raised in a homosexual home, it is a given the child will be taught that homosexuality is normal. He/she will be told he has two mommies -- IMPOSSIBLE! You don't need a Bible to know that no child has two mommies. Yet the insanity of progressivism (values derived from a source you approve of I assume) has led to some states issuing birth certificates that indicate a child has two parents of the same sex. Ludicrous! Can we at least keep a grip on reality? Come to think of it, I wonder how this baby's birth certificate will read.

Are you suggesting that the law should force people to be silent about homosexuals raising children? Should the law force people to deny reality -- the child has a mother and a father, not two mommies? Shall the law force all children to be taught lies about family? There is a reality about human babies: every one that has ever been born has had one mother and one father. Period! In fact, Mary Cheney has a mother and a father as does Heather Poe. That's an inescapable truth about all human beings. Our DNA is a testimony to the normalcy of heterosexuality -- every last one of us. So it is perfectly reasonable to think that children should be raised with a clear sense of reality even if you so loathe the idea of morality that you deny it has any bearing on our sexual behavior. Children are the product of heterosexuality! They need a mother and a father to exist and that is the way they should be nurtured.

180 posted on 12/16/2006 4:25:59 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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