I'm sure both President Bush and Mary Cheney's parents would prefer she was living as a normal, married woman. The reality is that Mary Cheney is an adult, free to do as she pleases, and the President of the United States is not going to savage her in public as some seem to think is his duty. I fail to see any logical reason for the intense condemnation he is receiving on this thread.
President Bush's views on homosexuality and the benefit of a child living in a two-parent, mom-and dad home are known and recorded. That he said something positive about Mary Cheney's mothering skills is hardly a blanket approval of homosexuality or homosexual child-bearing. It would be inappropriate for the president to make negative comments on his Vice President's daughters pregnancy. That Bush knows better than to do so simply shows his class while the screaming condemnations shows their authors mean-spirited and self-serving desire to attack other's Christian convictions.
I reject that attitude ans applaud President Bush for his finesse in dealing with a difficult subject.
I agree. James Webb showed how to be a real low class ass by letting his convictions take precedence over social decorum when he insulted President Bush in the receiving line at the White House. IMO, President Bush wasn't just being polite or even kind when he made his remarks about Mary Cheney. He really does wish her well and thinks she will be a good mother. If he was in to condemnation, he would have had to include the sperm donor as either a fornicator or adulterer and he would have had a long sermon to deliver on all of the moral consequences of socially irregular pregnancies and relationships. President Bush is not a 'scarlet letter' guy, thank God.