Posted on 12/05/2006 11:04:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.
It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night.
Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father during the 2004 reelection campaign and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. Poe, 45, a former park ranger, is renovating their Great Falls home.
News of the pregnancy will undoubtedly reignite the debate about gay marriage. During the campaign, Mary Cheney was criticized by gay activists for not being more publicly supportive of same-sex marriage. Her father said people "ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to" but deferred to the president's policy supporting a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. Cheney herself called the proposed amendment "a gross affront to gays and lesbians everywhere" in her book, "Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life," which was published in May.
Cheney has described her relationship with Poe -- whom she took to last year's White House dinner honoring Prince Charles and Camilla-- as a marriage. The two met in 1988 while playing ice hockey and began dating four years later. They moved from Colorado to Virginia a year ago to be closer to Cheney's family.
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Maybe it'll find its way back to the Clinton's kitchen in time for their Christmas turkey this year.
How many grown children today are trying to trace who a parent
in their life was?
Will Marys child be searching someday?? trying to find its roots.
No bvw, I don't wish hardship on anyone, and if I could, I would spare them from the pain.....but I believe that every life is precious.
The article doesn't say how many mommies she has, just that she has an expecting wife
By reading many of the post here at FR on the subject of Mary Cheney's pregnancy I am beginning to see how the Democrats won the last election.
There will be no conservative party in just a few years. A majority seems to be wanting to move to the middle, and the term "moderates" will be the new title of the conservative party.
I gotta get off this subject, I can not believe people here call themselves "Conservatives"???????????
If it were your daughter, would you be?
Lesbian and gay relationships masquerading as child-bearing marriages are a fraud of the first rank.
Anyone who really cares about the health of traditional families will find nothing to condone let alone celebrate in this highly public corruption of nature.
Where's the dad?
Very classy response, doctor.
LOL
You know what's wrong? How my company allows this single mother I work with to work 9:30 to 5 while the rest of us work 8-5. Yes..she's considered and payed as a full time person. It's because she has a kid and has to take him and pick him up from school. That's what's wrong.
Because she is the Cheney daughter doesn't make this any less wrong. That kid is being raised w/o a Father in an adnormal situation.
Pray for W and Our Troops
A lot of those posting here at FR, I have a question for you.
Why the he** have you not moved to Sweden or other countries who allow the Mary Cheney life style.
When her dad quits being VP she'll probably lose the ear rings and lipstick and spike her hair.
It's just amazing the kinds of things gays do and want to attach the word "dignity" to it!
lol
oh my goodness.........
It takes a certain kind of person to donate semen in the first place.
You're missing the POINT. The Cheney's will be the biological and emotional grandparents to her child. The dad's name is not available. He was probably a sperm donor...either a known individual to the two women or an anonymous one. Even if we knew who he was, or the fact that we don't know, has got nothing to do with the point. I was answering Types_with_Fist who seemed to suggest there was something wrong with the statement made by the Cheney's that they are eagerly anticipating the birth of their sixth grandchild. DUH...the child is their grandchild, no matter who the dad is. I have already expressed my severe disagreement with the lifestyle of these two women and I don't even like how much the Cheney's have accepted it. But the fact is the fact about the grandchild.
Please save your requests for decency for the homosexual activists who parade in the most obnoxius way and others of like perversion who are working night and day to have The mechanics of Homosexual taught as normal in the public Schools.
How about my 11 year old grandson who , while attending a $28000 per year grade school, asked his dad (my son) "Why he had to make a choice to either be Normal or Homosexual" as he was taught by his teacher???
Will the child of Mary Chaney have to choose to be Normal or Homosexual or will the child know the difference???
I would say your Decency request is misdirected..
"the Cheney's that they are eagerly anticipating the birth of their sixth grandchild.'
How do you even know if they really are "eagerly anticipating"? If they have any concerns for real family values then this would be a huge disappointment for them.
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