He's a traitor to the cause!!!
Get him! 
But not until he has hammered on Obama for a few more weeks ;-)...
Posted on 06/01/2009 1:08:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cheney Supports Gay Marriage It's not surprising when Vice President Dick Cheney disagrees with President Obama. But it is surprising when he takes a more progressive position than the president.
Said Cheney: "I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that... historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."
Cheney’s position is the classic 18th Cen. Liberal position. Personally, although I think it is morally wrong, this decision should be left to the States. My real concern is people being sued for refusing to take part in the wedding, like the New Mexico photographer.
They can never make a baby either, they can raise a baby, but never make one...and in order for them to raise one, someone has to make it. I wonder if this will lower respect for child-bearing women. They may find themselves being treated not just as sex-objects but also as baby-making-objects???
God endorsed polygamy.
That’s why one can even blame Bush.
If not for the marriage benefits in his tax cuts, there wouldn’t have been a clamor for gay marriage.
It’s got more to do with asset management than anything else, IMO.....
No it isn't. You seem to have no clue what conservatism is.
I agree with Cheney. He has stated this position before.
Still, the GOP would benefit greatly, I think, if they take several debate topics away from the typical wedge issues that RATS like to bring up during election time and turn them into a state rights (sovereignty) issue. This includes abortion, gay rights, education, etc.
Most Americans would buy into the states right argument more so than the same ole debate argument of taking each head-on. MeThinks.
So was the Prophet Abraham and some gay guys in San Francisco moral equals?
I agree with Cheney. He has stated this position before.
Still, the GOP would benefit greatly, I think, if they take several debate topics away from the typical wedge issues that RATS like to bring up during election time and turn them into a state rights (sovereignty) issue. This includes abortion, gay rights, education, etc.
Most Americans would buy into the states right argument more so than the same ole debate argument of taking each head-on.
MeThinks.
“How about the federal ban on partial birth abortion Bush signed with Cheney as VP? Wouldnt that violate states rights as Scalia said (it was not challenged on that) it did?”
I never heard of a bondholder being told by the government to go screw, either...we are through the looking glass...I believe our best hope now is to absolutley return everything possible to States Rights issues, carve out some sanity and live there...
i think i have come back to the conclusion that the state needs to get out of the marriage business all together, and change it to a civil union. Marriage is for the church. For the government it is simply the legal relationship for property, benefits, etc.
Excellent post, thanks for the reminder.
Cheney abandons reason and uses his power to move GOP to anti-God position which destroys our civilization's foundations
What is clear here is that Cheney is talking about a state’s right to recognize marriage. He is not talking about his religious beliefs, nor is he talking about his daughter. I think that because he isn’t talking about the latter two we can surmise that his statement ONLY is relevant to state’s rights and nothing else.
He's a traitor to the cause!!!
Get him!
But not until he has hammered on Obama for a few more weeks ;-)...
And the reason we don’t own Mexico today was because the US government (northern Republicans) did not want to admit Mixico into the union and divide it up since it was below the Mason-Dixon Line and would have increased the number of slave states. Just thihnk if Mexico had been a part of the US from the 1840s and could have been fully integrated into US cultural patterns. Thanks for nothing Lincoln.
No, I correct.
It’s a terminology thing, not a substantive point.
What’s his position on torture in a homosexual marriage?
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