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Mary Cheney and Partner Are About to Be Moms
Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2006 | Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

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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To: Wallace T.
Perhaps we can hope that the Hispanics and Asians that are coming to our shores will establish a better and more moral society than the whites have done once the effects of their uncontrolled immigration and higher birth rate relegate those of European ancestry to a minority.

Perhaps. Failing that, I'm willing to bet the future Caliphate will be VERY moral.

381 posted on 12/06/2006 11:09:39 AM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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To: newzjunkey
It isn't for Dick to moralize himself a fifth heart-attack over his 37 yr old daughter!

Maybe Dick doesn't have any moral problems with Mary's choices to begin with.

382 posted on 12/06/2006 11:10:15 AM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: Howlin
No way; there are more of us SANE people than there are of you prigs.

Are you sure?

383 posted on 12/06/2006 11:11:07 AM PST by Wormwood (the happiest sadist)
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To: Wormwood; Howlin

Sometimes I wonder on this forum but though I tend to hang out with convince me that it is just the kooky few who make a lot of noise.


384 posted on 12/06/2006 11:12:14 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: Wormwood; Howlin

Whoops meant to say those not though


385 posted on 12/06/2006 11:13:01 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: Gideon Reader
Parenting is not an easy job regardless of orientation.

LOL. FR sure is a hoot when we are defending our guys and/or their offspring.

386 posted on 12/06/2006 11:13:21 AM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: snugs

But can't you just imagine the upcoming book, "The Vice President's Granddaughter Has Two Mommies?" It has a much stronger ring than "Heather".


387 posted on 12/06/2006 11:13:31 AM PST by OldGuard1
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To: OldGuard1

What had that to do with my post?


388 posted on 12/06/2006 11:14:51 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: TlalocW

Welcome to FR. Did you sign up today just to post that?


389 posted on 12/06/2006 11:14:57 AM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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To: dr luba
"When did Christ speak of homosexuality?"

He also didn't speak about rape or child molestation. No one in his audience would have the belief that homosexual behavior was acceptable.

Jesus talks about human sexuality in Matthew 19:

4"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

390 posted on 12/06/2006 11:15:06 AM PST by teawithmisswilliams (Question Diversity)
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To: null and void

Probably - I supsect has been here before and been banned


391 posted on 12/06/2006 11:15:34 AM PST by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: txrangerette

They're raising their child to be twice the child of hell that they are. Just hope and pray, he/she sees the light and walks away from the sinful folly of the "parents".


392 posted on 12/06/2006 11:16:43 AM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: napscoordinator
...Honestly, I believe she is just trying to have a baby. I sure am glad she decided to have it. I just don't see the big deal on this. I guess it could be because I just don't think...

Tell me something... Can you picture Mary and her (what husband? wife?... don't really want to know!:)... fighting with their buddies and the ACLU, for the "kids?" :) No?

Perhaps I "see much into it," paranoid? possible. Hey, whatever you believe, is fine with me :)

393 posted on 12/06/2006 11:16:44 AM PST by ElPatriota (Let's not forget, we are all still friends - basically :) - despite our differences)
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To: Wormwood

LOL............if you catch me on a bad day, nope!


394 posted on 12/06/2006 11:18:33 AM PST by Howlin (44 days to Destin!)
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To: Howlin
I'm sick to death of you moralizing prigs on this forum.

Nah, nah, na nah nah!

395 posted on 12/06/2006 11:19:45 AM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: Wallace T.

If what you posit is so, and the Old Testament is Law for Jews and Gentiles alike, then why do so many Christian sects "pick and choose" which part of the bible to follow and which not?

It seems to me that many of the laws of the Old Testament are not being followed.

For instance: Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins unwittingly in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.

Where are the bulls? It's been a long time since I've seen a burnt offering. There should be huge fires out in Colorado!

Or: "If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days."

Are we making sure we keep all menstruating women and new mothers* out of the churches? After all, they are unclean.

The Bible tells us so.

(* This is followed, to some extent, in the Orthodox church. New mothers have to have a cleansing ritual performed before they can enter church after giving birth. But no one checks to see if I'm menstruating.)


396 posted on 12/06/2006 11:20:29 AM PST by dr luba
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To: snugs; TlalocW
Dunno, account just suspended, not nuked.

I always like in when we get a newbie with some passion, even if I disagree with them. It keeps us from getting too inbred.
397 posted on 12/06/2006 11:20:33 AM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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To: two134711; Admin Moderator
You just can't leave when you want to; it doesn't work that way. You have to call the moderator a "poopy head" or something.
398 posted on 12/06/2006 11:20:59 AM PST by streetpreacher (RUDY/ROMNEY 2008: Supporting Marriage between a man and a woman, then a woman, then a woman...)
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To: null and void
Failing that, I'm willing to bet the future Caliphate will be VERY moral.

Most of our immigration is coming from Latin America, which is historically Catholic, with a sizable evangelical minority, or from East and South Asia (some Muslims from Pakistan or Bangladesh, but mostly a mixture of Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, and nonbelievers). Unlike the case in Western Europe, Muslims are a decidedly small minority of America's immigrants.

We may have serious problems, but the possibility of radical Islam coming to power is not one of them.

399 posted on 12/06/2006 11:21:25 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: petitfour
Miss Cheney is free to be a lesbian, and she's free to become impregnated by artificial means. Others are free to be critical of her decisions and to snub her if they wish.

That pretty much covers it.

400 posted on 12/06/2006 11:22:00 AM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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