It's a Cheney! (Reality Is a Blessed Event)

washingtonpost.com ^ | 12/8/06 | Ruth Marcus

[beyond the sea]

My only regret about Mary Cheney's pregnancy is that it didn't happen earlier -- say, during the 2004 presidential race, when Cheney was working for her father's campaign and his running mate was busy trying to write discrimination against people like her into the Constitution.

Imagine a hugely pregnant Mary Cheney sitting in the vice president's box at the convention. Imagine Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, cuddling their newborn onstage at the victory celebration.

How perfectly that would have illustrated the clanging disconnect between the Republican Party's outmoded intolerance and the benign reality of gay families today.

[beyond the sea]

"the benign reality of gay families" -----

Hmmm.

[beyond the sea]

"I think it's tragic that a child has been conceived with the express purpose of denying it a father," pronounced Robert Knight of the Media Research Center. The couple, he said is seeking to "create a culture that is based on sexual anarchy instead of marriage and family values." ----

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I don't know about the couple "seeking a culture that is based on sexual anarchy instead of marriage and family values", but they sure are going to assist in it.

(jmo)

[beyond the sea]

More than half of the Fortune 500 companies offered health benefits for domestic partners this year

I'll bet that insurance costs a pretty penny.

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"See this? See that? Don't put this in that."

[beyond the sea]

"Put another way, gay marriage -- an idea that has been banned by all but one of 27 states that have voted on it -- has become a fact of life inside many big companies," the magazine said.

Perhaps, just another way that money and greed is a large part in the destruction of our society as it was known?

[Sunsong]

Give it up already. This is nobody's business but the Cheney's.

[beyond the sea]

Give it up already. This is nobody's business but the Cheney's.

Hey genius, tell it to the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus, and everyone who she alertly mentions in the article.

Maybe you should just get some shut eye.

[Lurker]

It seems to me that if folks are truly concerned about the Cheney family they ought to offer up a short sincere prayer to the Big Guy asking Him to watch over and protect everyone involved.

Then they ought to go back and reread that little piece in Matthew about beams and motes in peoples eyes.

(Thanks to BigSkyFreeper for the memory jog about Matthew.)

L

[Caipirabob]

There is no other defining factor in homosexuality other than the chosen manner of alleged, attempted sexual intercourse. I can't equate the term "Gay Family" to anything other than a situation where small children have perverted sexual concepts inflicted upon them in an effort to reprogram nature and produce a societal deviant. It is truly sickeing.

[Ingtar]

Just because I have a beam in my eye does not mean that the mote in their eye is not cancerous. The one who said this also said in Leviticus 18:

22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

...

30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

To me it seems to be not so much a mote in God's eyes.

[Caipirabob]

"Mommy, where do babies come from?"

[beyond the sea]

I can't equate the term "Gay Family" to anything other than a situation where small children have perverted sexual concepts inflicted upon them in an effort to reprogram nature and produce a societal deviant.

Pretty much agree.

[beyond the sea]

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[Lurker]

Just because I have a beam in my eye does not mean that the mote in their eye is not cancerous.

Kindly point out to me where God made it your business.

"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."

Now I ain't claiming to be as eloquent as God. I generally put it this way: "Mind your own damned business."

I usually follow that up with something like "Keep your hands to yourself."

And not to nitpick, but I see old Leviticus said that men shouldn't lie with men as women and women shouldn't lie with beasts. But where exactly did it say that women shouldn't lay with women as they lay with men?

If I'm not mistaken Leviticus is Old Testament when folk were laying with wives and handmaidens by the basketful. Those must have been some days.

Looks like old Levi didn't cover all the laying people could do when they were getting laid, so to speak.

L

[beyond the sea]

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[Ingtar]

It became my business when people began trying to cram it into society as normal. And this does not make me hate Mary Cheney or her partner. What happens to them over this is between them and God. I am deeply saddened for the child, who has no choice. And deeply saddened for them that they have allowed themselves to be made into an agenda talking point. I hope some good comes of this, but I cannot see it.

[kellynch]

Why would people *choose* to be pariahs?

[Lurker]

It became my business when people began trying to cram it into society as normal.

Ah yes, the old "They forced to play God" routine. That's about as tolerant an attitude as your average jihadi if you ask me.

Best of luck with that. Do let us know how it works out for you.

I hope some good comes of this,

The Vice President is going to have a grandchild. A grandchild I'm sure given his daughters proclivities he was sure he was never going to have. I suppose being happy for Mr. and Mrs. Cheney is completely out of the question.

but I cannot see it.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

L

[beyond the sea]

well said

(jmo)

[beyond the sea]

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