Posted on 05/08/2006 4:06:47 PM PDT by skandalon
She says she considered quitting her role as campaign adviser over the issue of gay marriage, but Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney tells ABC News "Primetime" anchor Diane Sawyer her sexuality has never created problems within her family.
Mary Cheney discussed the campaign, her feelings about President Bush, life with her partner of 14 years, and what it was like to come out as gay to her parents.
"I struggled with my decision to stay on the 2004 campaign," Cheney told "Primetime." Her personal challenge came when President Bush said the nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
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I've always thought that to be a specious argument. Many people can be said to have chosen misery in a variety of ways. Women stay with abusers, for example. Just one example is a martyr complex. People's behavior is often a complex web.
But I suppose I recoil from this line of argument most because it implies that man is just an animal who is a slave to his or her sexual impulses and that sexual activity (not desire) is out of human control.
I sure deplore the activities by schools that promote children making these lifestyle choices without much information on the downside.
I love the Cheney family.
Listen cowboy, I don't know if it is innate or not, or environmental, or a mixture of the two, or whether it varies by the individual (my guess), but the suggestion that going gay is like picking a brand of toothpaste (I assume that is what you meant by claiming there are no gay people), simply defies all anecdotal evidence. The anecdotal evidence is that folks resist going gay, until they realize that further resistance is futile, and destructive to the self (psychologically).
Welcome to the liberal mentality where we corrupt the kids at an early age so they do what the liberals want them to do.
You're right. They likely hate her; that's why they hug her in public and defend her and why she says her parents are great!
Those are the actions of adults who despise each other, for sure!!!
An excellent point; I see quite a few of them on FR lately. :-)
I certainly do, too.
But I don't think they CHOOSE this lifestyle.
Everybody knows loving parents kick their gay kids out of the house. :-)
And refuse to help with their college tuition, that they could otherwise afford. It's tough love, praise the Lord!
What a stupid statement you make. They may or may not love her - you have no way of knowing it. For example, scores of true crime cases have revealed what a difference there is between public and private actions, that the images people leave can be highly misleading.
I emphatically state that ALL human beings can choose to or choose not to engage in any number of activities during their lifetime including homosexual activities.
You are the one stating that choosing to engage in disordered homosexual activity would entail living a miserable life -I myself would term it self-destructive - a slow suicide...
I know it. You seem to be the only one on this board who doesn't.
For example, scores of true crime cases have revealed what a difference there is between public and private actions, that the images people leave can be highly misleading.
Yeah, well, that's how criminals are.
You think the Cheney's have criminal personalities?
Mary and Dick were hunting and fishing and camping buddies. Is suspect they have a fast friendship that goes beyond love. And Dick just isn't into Bible thumping. He's a live and let live guy about these matters. I don't think he invests or expends much psychological energy regarding adult sexual activities.
But that standard, we do not KNOW George & Laura loves Jen and Barbara.
I think your reasoning could use some fine tuning.
It's more than tough love; it's the utlimate political hypocrisy: calling one man's daughter a hedonist while neglecting to menion yours is one, too.
whoops--loves should be love
I am my own grammar cop.
Maybe he didn't know what his own had gone the way of the devil, when he commented about Mary. Didn't the Mary bashing come first? I am not sure daddy was paying much attention to his daughter.
And politicians, others also, not just the criminals element. Read some psychology, biographies, follow the news and you'll find plenty of other examples. Since you make little sense and just want to argue, I've no further interest to respond to you.
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