I read the article at abcnews in its entirety and Mary seems clear in her identity as a given not as a choice, makes clear her parents are first and foremost loving of her and accepting of her, and that she does not pursue any outrageous course of action, nothing flaunting, nothing confrontational.
I remind us that the most offensive insult to her came from that most despicable of traitors John Forge Kerry and his ambulance-chasing sidekick the Breck Girl.
I would recall the sampler Work Out Your Own Salvation, that classic bit of needlework, itself an echo of Buddha and an allusion to that first and best gift from our God, that of free will followed by the valued admonition to eschew obsessing on the mote in our neighbor's eye while ignoring the log in our own.
For those who would judge I suggest you first let me walk a mile in your moccasins and if they are really really good moccasins I will call to you my thanks as I disappear into the night well shod.
Mary was encouraged to express her disagreement--and notes her father's disagreement--and lo we haven't any regulation from Russ Feingold and John McCain setting aside the First Amendment right to disagree.
But these men are not dead yet nor yet retired from public life.
For them the Dick Cheney self-help tip, "go f--- yourself".