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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.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: barfalert; busybodies; familyvalues; fantasy; fatherlesschild; fertilty; fetish; homosexual; liberalism; liberals; makingnice; moralabsolutes; moralrelativism; perverts; purists
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To: durasell

And you can't post her exchange with Chico Marx on a Family website. ;-D


481 posted on 12/17/2006 1:22:51 PM PST by linda_22003
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To: PetroniusMaximus
"It is difficult to establish precisely the number of homosexuals that have been executed in Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979, since not all sentences are widely publicized, but estimates range from several hundred to 4,000 (3). According to Amnesty International, at least three homosexual men and two lesbians were publicly beheaded in January 1990. The Islamic Penal Law Against Homosexuals, approved in July 1991 and ratified in November of that year, is simple. Article 110: “Punishment for sodomy is killing; the Sharia judge decides on how to carry out the killing.” Article 129: “Punishment for lesbianism is one hundred (100) lashes for each party.” Article 131: “If the act of lesbianism is repeated three times and punishment is enforced each time, the death sentence will be issued the fourth time.”

I guess these guys would pass yours.

482 posted on 12/17/2006 1:24:07 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: linda_22003

I don't know the exchange -- please freepmail it to me. In exchange, I'm off offering this quip by Oscar Levant:

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.


483 posted on 12/17/2006 1:27:37 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Blackirish
"It will be a good day for the right when we re-embrace the notion of encouraging personal responsibility instead of legislating it."

Best post of the day.

Spend less time worryiing about who's ^&^%#E who, and pay more attention at teh fact that the Feds are (^&%#^%# all of us.

484 posted on 12/17/2006 1:28:16 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: durasell

Levant was the best.

Had it not been for his participation in it, the movie of George Gerswhin's life would have been boring.


485 posted on 12/17/2006 1:30:44 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
The founding fathers were not of one mind regarding slavery. Some saw it as a problem yet to be dealt with. But they all saw sodomy as an unspeakably shocking abomination.

You are evading the question,imo. Slavery was legal in the early America. You seem to be arguing for a return to those times - or even earlier. Are you in favor of a return to the laws (all of them) in the 1700's? And no, women were NOT treated well in colonial times. Don't even try to go there!

What you don't seem to understand is that homosexuality WILL become more and more accepted - and yes, I have no problem with homosexuality. It is part of nature and has been around as long as humanity. I see no *homosexual agenda*. I am amused by those who believe 2% of the population is so powerful that they are somehow going to destroy western civilization.

486 posted on 12/17/2006 1:31:20 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Luis Gonzalez

He was extremely talented, but kind of a waste. I put him in the same category as Kurt Cobain or Basquiat. Never reached full potential because of personal demons.


487 posted on 12/17/2006 1:32:45 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
"I guess these guys would pass yours."

You seem to be comparing the Founding Fathers and the moral climate of colonial America with that of the radical Imams of Iran.

No thanks!

(You might feel more at home with the fag-worshippers over at DU. Here's the link if you don't have it: http://www.democraticunderground.com )
488 posted on 12/17/2006 1:34:36 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Sunsong
And no, women were NOT treated well in colonial times. Don't even try to go there!

BS. Women were highly regarded, and equals in life. LIfe has diferent roles for men and women.

489 posted on 12/17/2006 1:37:40 PM PST by bvw
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I am not fixated on sodomy as you and so many others are, I do however, see the FACT that the Founders understood that politics would corrupt religion, and religion corrupt politics.

Having said that, I no more want to return to a time when slavery was legal and sodomy was punishable by death, than I do to the time when Jim Crow laws were rampant, and women could not vote.

I don't like moving backward.


490 posted on 12/17/2006 1:39:49 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: bvw
Women were highly regarded, and equals in life.

Of course they were. They just couldn't own property, inherit wealth, etc.

491 posted on 12/17/2006 1:40:05 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Well...Islam enforces a punishment for sodomy that passes your conservative test.

Does it not?


492 posted on 12/17/2006 1:40:56 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yes, women could and did own property and inherit wealth. I regret to see the PC schooling recent generations have afflicted you with.


493 posted on 12/17/2006 1:43:12 PM PST by bvw
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To: Sunsong
"I am amused by those who believe 2% of the population is so powerful that they are somehow going to destroy western civilization."

Ain't that the truth!

494 posted on 12/17/2006 1:43:22 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: little jeremiah

"(Which you would know, if you've ever read about the history of English law. Ever heard of Blackwell?)"

Yes. Mr. Blackwell is the very gay man who has his "worst dressed" list of celebrities every year.

You are trying to say Blackstone, as in William Blackstone, the author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. You are in NO position to be lecturing anyone on their knowledge of the Common Law.

And the thing that's funny as hell is, I've corrected you on this before. You just can't keep it straight. :)


495 posted on 12/17/2006 1:43:37 PM PST by linda_22003
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To: bvw
Women were highly regarded, and equals in life. LIfe has diferent roles for men and women.

Not true. Women were considered *property*. They were beaten. They were raped. They could not own property...etc etc

Perhaps that is what you *purist* types are really after - a return to colonial times - where blacks are slaves and women are about the same?

And let's not forget the witch trials and the burning of supposed witches at the stake. Do you want to go back to that as well?

496 posted on 12/17/2006 1:44:11 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"You do understand, do you not, that none of the founders had a problem with sodomy laws."

Was it not Jefferson who actually lowered the penalty for sodomy in Virginia?

497 posted on 12/17/2006 1:45:47 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Ain't that the truth!

andhthey swear they are not homophobic - afraid of homosexuals :-)

498 posted on 12/17/2006 1:45:49 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong
"Not true. Women were considered *property*. They were beaten. They were raped. They could not own property...etc etc"

Women are beaten and raped even today -- when it happens it is wrong. When it happened then it was wrong.

I'll repeat: women can and did own property.

I am sad for you, a education gone to bad seed, obviously. A mind fallen to the modern PC, deconstructionist and Marxist revisonists of history. As you live and breath, though, wou can go about curing your own affliction. Head to a library and read some books and periodicals written in the period you are interested in.

499 posted on 12/17/2006 1:49:22 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
Maybe I should have distinguished between married and unmarried women. A married woman during the Revolutionary War period was not equal to her husband.

Library of Congress.

500 posted on 12/17/2006 1:51:08 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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