Bush: happy for Cheney's gay daughter pregnancy

Reuters ^ | 12/15/06

[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.

[little jeremiah]

We're not discussing all the varied technological conception methods here, but since you brought it up, any method which results in the deaths of embryos is thumbs down.

No doubt another black mark against me.

BTW, you really like the phrase "scarey little control freak", don't you - did you make that one up or read it someplace? It's kind of neat. Maybe that should be my new tagline for a while....

[EternalVigilance]

People can do or say whatever they wish. God gave us the ability and the Constitution gave us the right.

LOL...actually, God calls it an abomination committed by those whose consciences are seared, and the founders of America agreed with Him.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL...actually, God calls it an abomination committed by those whose consciences are seared, and the founders of America agreed with Him.

And yet they agreed with God SO MUCH that they made a law against being a Homosexual. Didn't they?????

Oh wait....they didn't....

Way to go EV. LOL

[Sunsong]

God is more than capable of dealing with you without any input from me whatsoever.

You know - I agree with that. Leave the condemnation of sinners to God. But that does not jive with your assertion that you are saving the country from debauchery?

Which is it? Are you saving the country or are you leaving it in God's capable Hands?

Oh, and btw, gays and lesbians ARE in the public square and they are going to stay there. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

[EternalVigilance]

Long on words yet SHORT on answers as usual EV. It's a simple question, yes or no.

Actually, I answered your dishonest question quite explicitly. You just don't like the answer, so you do what you always do: throw dirt in the air to try and obscure the fact that your ideology would fit in better at DU than at FR.

[Central Scrutiniser]

No, I made it up.

It seems to fit.

[EveningStar]

I always thought Leviticus was more the word of man than of God.

[unspun]

And yet they agreed with God SO MUCH that they made a law against being a Homosexual. Didn't they?????

Since when does an adherent to the American way want to outlaw all immoral behavior, anyway? Not a very sensible comment, if you ask me.

[Central Scrutiniser]

EV is used to it being 5 against one, that is kinda how the vote is when Keyes runs for an office.

[MikefromOhio]

Actually, I answered your dishonest question quite explicitly.

Horsehockey. It was a yes or no answer. There was no paragraph required and you STILL didn't answer the question. I'll ask it again incase your beedy little brain couldn't comprehend it the FIRST TIME...

YES OR NO: Do you think you have a right to know what is going on in people's bedrooms???

This isn't asking you about what is going on in classrooms or different public fora, but the BEDROOMS THEMSELVES. I'm sure you can answer that honestly, can't you?? Oh wait, it's EV, I'm SO SURE I'll get a straightforward answer here. So sure in fact, I WON'T hold my breath waiting for it, just like I WON'T hold my breath waiting on you to actually run a candidate who WINS.

And no, trust me, your authoritarian BS fits in with the DU'ers much better than my ideas of personal liberty do.

[MikefromOhio]

You may want to ask the one I was responding too.

I don't quite understand it either.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Gays and lesbians are in the public square, but EV would rather be in your private bedroom, doing his best Gomer Pyle screaming "Citizen's Arrest!!!"

[MikefromOhio]

Or any other candidate he runs.

Trust me the EV wing of the GOP/Conservatism is the road to nowhere.

[Sunsong]

It all boils down to control. Two women can have a baby, and a man can't control that.

Well put. For chauvinists - lesbians are their worst nightmare :-)

[EternalVigilance]

This place is starting to seem more like the Democrat National Convention than it is the FR of old.

[Sunsong]

So, again, which is it? Are you going to save the country? And if so, how do you feel you are doing so far?

And, do you mean it when you say God is the one who best deals with sinners and their sins?

[Central Scrutiniser]

When in doubt, call someone a liberal or a democrat.

Bush has no problem with Mary Cheney, and he knows other lesbian couples and has worked with them.

Maybe you need to actually get to know a lesbian couple and see how they live and raise kids. Its easy to judge against some thing, but not so easy to judge against some body you know.

[EveningStar]

It all boils down to control. Two women can have a baby, and a man can't control that.

Well put. For chauvinists - lesbians are their worst nightmare :-)

I'm not threatened by same-sex parents either, but let's not venture into non-sequitur land.

[EternalVigilance]

Bush has no problem with Mary Cheney...

And thereby, he's done a disservice to the nation.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Your opinion.

Obviously in the minority.