Posted on 10/06/2009 6:17:42 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Mary Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, and her long-time partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their second child, a source close to the family told True/Slant. [Ed. Note: Since publishing this piece, Cheney has confirmed that she and Poe are expecting their second child in mid- to late November.]
Cheney has worked as a principal at Navigators Global, a bi-partisan communications firm, but recently announced that she would be leaving the company for maternity leave and to begin a new consulting firm with her sister, Liz. Close friends were informed that she was expecting a second child about four months ago and she is now visibly showing her pregnancy, the source says.
Cheney, a lesbian, attracted much attention from the conservative movement when she announced she was pregnant with her first child in late 2006. Social conservative pundit and founder of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, penned a controversial op-ed for Time magazine called “Two Mommies Is One Too Many,” opining Cheney’s decision to start a family:
"With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father. That is not to say Cheney and Poe will not love their child. But love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development. The two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy–any more than the two most loving men can be complete role models for a little girl."
(Excerpt) Read more at trueslant.com ...
No! Perverts are disgusting regardless of their parents
It is not their child, period. Two women can't produce a child. Words mean things, so I've heard or read or something.
“breathtaking depraved environment”?
Do you personally know Mary Cheney? her partner?
until you walk in their shoes, do not judge them...least you be judged....
this is a private family out of 350 Million Americans and you feel you know best?
give me a break................
Even when blatant and caustic child abuse is part of the equation?
(And,yes,it *is* child abuse)
A turkey baster joke. Impressive. How proud of your wit you must be. Sad the Algonquin Round Table isn’t around anymore. You’d fit at the head of the table.
>>>A baby is a baby is a baby. I hope Mary’s new baby is as healthy and happy as the first one.
Agreed. And raised in the Cheney family is a plus.
You did ask, did you not, why Laura's situation is different from Mary Cheney? I explained why.
>> A turkey baster joke.
What joke? I’m serious.
Or how do YOU think they “did it”?
Scissors?
Ice teaspoon maybe?
Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way. No, actually, I don’t care if it rubbed you the wrong way. I’m not big on the idea of innocent children being raised by queers. Your morals and your mileage may vary.
P.S. I know many ‘fatherless children’ some where the father has been tragedy killed in auto accident, some where the father fought in wars and didn't return home, some the result of divorce, and foster children.
and with that I bid you a ‘good night’
The turkey baster must be very proud.
Cheney obviously cannot dictate what his adult daughter does, but he is more than free and able to offer his strong opinion on this degrading deathstyle. He refuses to do so, however.
Nope.But I know what they do.It's called depravity...among other things.And as for their "partnership"...did they open up a business together?
until you walk in their shoes, do not judge them...least you be judged....
I was taught at a very early age that shoes like that aren't the right ones to wear.
this is a private family out of 350 Million Americans and you feel you know best?
I know basic morality.And they ain't it.
Here is my problem. I'd like to err on the side of individual freedom. Now we have to balance freedom and the rights of children. We have some measures that are fairly objective: medical neglect, bruised and broken bodies, etc.
You want to go to a place that is subjective. I wouldn't want my grandchildren raised in a homosexual home and I wouldn't want my grandchildren raised in a single mother home with boyfriends moving in and out, and frankly, I'd be very upset if my husband divorced me and had sleepovers with girlfriends when our son was staying with him!
I'm not inclined to legislate that X circumstance is inherently abusive. That type of law is wholly subject to abuse by whomever is in power. Today, it might be gay couples and sleazy moms and tomorrow it may very well be Christians, homeschoolers and conservatives.
>> this is a private family
No, it isn’t. “Queer plus queer plus artificially conceived baby equals family” is a meme the leftists are trying oh so hard to shove down our throats...
but that doesn’t make it so.
No, actually, that is impossible.
a cousin of mine is a lesbian. she adopted a 10 year old girl. she loves this child like it was her own biological child. she treats the girl like a precious treasure. she does not scar this child. the girl was badly scarred by someone else. her biological mother abused her and allowed the boyfriend to use her also. they made this innocent child a prostitute, forced her into drug use, and beat the living hell out of her on a regular basis. she was damaged mentally, physically and emotionally. she was terrified of men. NO ONE would adopt her. my lesbian cousin has done more to help heal the wounds others have inflicted on this child than anyone else was willing to do. she is not trying to corrupt the child or “turn her”, she is simply being a mother to an unwanted and damaged little girl. ms. cheney is the biological mother of her children. she is not “taking innocent children” she is being a mother and i congratulate her on her good news.
Actually, there is a story behind that picture. Cheney was apparently on the campaign trail and stopped at a famous frozen custard place. A reporter for a newspaper took the picture, and it was to be used on the color insert for a Sunday edition.
Apparently, nobody picked up on the er...unusual nature of the picture, and the edition was printed and sent out.
After the fact, the newspaper finally *did* notice the nature of the picture, and they pulled all the inserts they could get their hands on. The problem was, they couldn’t get them all.
I know all this, because I read the article explaining this somewhat humorous situation (I don’t remember where) and immediately went down to my local library which had a rather extensive selection of papers from all over the country. Sure enough, there was the picture, because that edition had been mailed out.
I did something I have never done before or since...I ripped the picture out of the newspaper insert, took it home and scanned it in. I can tell, because of the deteriorated nature of the photo is the one I folded up, scanned in and posted on FR...:)
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Here is one of the threads the Admin Moderator pulled...(with the comment:
Pulled on 11/13/2004 5:58:01 PM PST by Admin Moderator, reason:
no body could take a hint
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Overexposed! A photo of Dick Cheney is unexpectedly revealing. (Help find the pic!)
Milwaukee Magazine | December 2004 | Peter Robertson
Posted on 11/10/2004 7:28:03 PM PST by July 4th
Joining Dick Cheney’s motorcase in Green Bay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique image during an otherwise scripted campaign visit in September.
Did he ever.
Jumping on and off the press bus, Guldan says he took hundreds of pictures at well-orchestrated photo opportunities.
On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to make an unscheduled stop to Glendale to visit local favorite Kopp’s Frozen Custard, according to New York Times reporter Rick Lyman.
When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge, Kopp’s manager Scott Borkin graciously brought him a sample of frozen custard. “The guy came all the way from the White House,” Borkin says. “He’s got to try our custard.”
The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile for Borkin, and Guldan snapped an attention-grabbing photo that would later be chosen for the September 11 Metro section.
Guldan got a call from readers the next day. “Did you notice anything unusual about that picture?” the reader asked.
Upon closer inspection, it seems the Vice President’s smile was not his, ahem, biggest asset.
“You’re not imagining it,” Guldan says of the unintentionally revealing photo.
Let’s just say the snugness of Cheney’s pants left little to the imagination, and we’re not talking about his waistline.
One Journal Sentinel reader pointed out the blooper in an e-mail to Dave Luczak, Carole Caine, and Kevin Brandt, who had a hoot talking about it during their popular morning show.
“It’s nice to have someone of that magnitude in the White House,” Brandt joked.
“He’s got a porn career right there,” Caine snickered.
“Now we know where his unmitigated confidence comes from,” Luczak quipped.
We’ve seen the photo, and it’s hard not to notice something so, well, unmistakeable.
Guldan explains that he took 100 to 200 photographs that day with a digital camera, chose six to eight images for possible publication, and didn’t notice anything odd in the Kopp’s image because Cheney sat in the shadows. Incredibly, a dozen or so editors saw the photo before publication, and no one raised the red flag.
“I got a chuckle out of it when I noticed it, too. If I had noticed it sooner, I would have cropped it,” Guldan says, referring to the standard practice of trimming a photo without altering the accuracy. “I wasn’t out to put him in a negative light.”
While such a photo of the VP is clearly inappropriate, it’s also a harmless mistake and could be seen as - dare we say - flattering. Just ask WKLH’s Caine, who dug through her recycling bin to find the photo.
“It’s like a Scud missile, for crying out loud,” Caine said.
Want to see the picture for yourself? Catch it while you can at your library periodical desk, because chagrined Journal Sentinel officials are not in a sharing mood.
The paper denied our request to reprint the copyrighted photo, saying it had decided not to release the image to the public.
You won’t find it on jsonline.com either, though there are photos of every other Cheney campaign trip to Wisconsin since April. Matt Stanton, jsonline design editor, promised to look into this curious omission, and that was the last we heard from him.
Meanwhile, Mark Hoffman, deputy photo editor, suggested we try the paper’s Photo Sales Service. Don’t bother. To check its availability, we ordered and paid for a color copy of the Cheney photo, only to get a call the next day voiding the deal.
Journal Sentinel: “That photo is not for sale.”
What I wanted to know was whether you were referring to me as “the enemy of good?”
“this is a private affair between these two adults who have chosen a different lifestyle that what we do...”
When a child is abused or denied a father, it is never a ‘private’ matter to be ignored. This type of deliberate tolerance of sexual deviancy and alternative lifestyles forced upon an innocent child in his/her upbringing is exactly what has brought us to this crisis in our culture.
Iran has the moral high ground when it comes to the US, no doubt...
I believe this is morally wrong, and while I’m opposed to IVF, I at least think if we have it, it should be restricted to married couples. Mary Cheney and her “partner” are not expecting. Mary and a man are expecting, but she, her “partner”, and this man have decided that he not be present in this child’s life. Every child has a right to a mother and father, and while sometimes tragic events in life lead a child to lose a parent, it is wrong to deliberately deprive a child of a parent. Furthermore, this child will be raised in an immoral lifestyle, taught that a sexual relationship between two people of the same sex is morally valid as a sexual relationship is between a married man and woman. That is simply not the case.
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