Mary Cheney and Partner Are About to Be Moms

Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2006 | Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

[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.

[null and void]

That was back when our side complained about the LIBERALS sticking their collective noses in our business.

Now we have our very own busybodies who wish to cram THEIR views down people's throats.

I can't decide whether it's humorous, hypocritical, or just disgusting.

It's just human. *sigh*

[streetpreacher]

Was that from the later senile Goldwater? Regardless, he sounds like a typical bitter liberal moral relativist idiot.

Of course, he was always a libertarian whose governing philosophy (except they have never governed) is "No one is gonna' tell me what to do!"

[Burkean]

We've only just come to accept children from mixed race partners (especially here in the south). Give us a few years for something like this!

[Howlin]

I use to think WE were different; evidently not, huh?

[Howlin]

Here in the South? I'm "here in the South" and you're way behind.

She's a woman having a baby.

[Wormwood]

We've only just come to accept children from mixed race partners (especially here in the south). Give us a few years for something like this!

You win the thread.

[streetpreacher]

Good luck in your life without Free Republic. I could not imagine it.

That's rather scary.

[Antoninus]

No way; there are more of us SANE people than there are of you prigs.

Right. Sane = being ok with two women having a child out of wedlock with a sperm donor. Sane = rejoicing when two guys teach a child that they purchased that sodomy is a "family value." I understand fully where you're coming from.

I'd say that the insane are often the last to recognize that they're crazy, but what would be the point?

[teawithmisswilliams]

FWIW, 2 of the 5 kids sitting at my son's first grade table had two mommies. Should I have killed just the four adults, or the kids as well?

Of course not. Are we "hollier than thou" if we see this trend as a disaster for children and for society? This is a revolutionary re-definition of "family", at the very least.

[Howlin]

I'd say that the insane are often the last to recognize that they're crazy...

Speaking from experience?

[Wormwood]

Are we "hollier than thou" if we see this trend as a disaster for children and for society?

Without compelling proof to support your claims? Yes.

[Howlin]

LOL!

[streetpreacher]

Funny thing, there was a time when being a conservative meant keeping the government OUT of our bedrooms and private lives!

Newspeak for: "I have a right to an abortion or a turkey baster pregnancy."

[dr luba]

The whole citation:

Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?" He said in reply, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate." "They said to him, "Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss (her)?" He said to them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery."

Jesus was talking about th inviolability of marriage. He wasn't discussing sexuality here per se. He wasn't condemning gays but those who would divorce.

And, of course, no good Christian would ever divorce, nor any Christian church condone such a practice.

[null and void]

Her homosexual sex partner is just that, a partner for recreational sex.

For 14 years???

[Wormwood]

And, of course, no good Christian would ever divorce, nor any Christian church condone such a practice.

How could they? The penalty for adultery is death (Leviticus 20:10).

[null and void]

I also think this is being done as a jamming to keep Dick Chenny from running for the presidency.

That's what he has a bad ticker for.

(Evil grin) BTW, does anyone know if Hillary!™ has Alzheimer's? She certainly had a great deal of trouble recalling anything when she's on the witness stand. A montage of her answers overlayed with the question: "Does she have Alzheimer's?" would make a great political ad for some 526(c) to run...

[dr luba]

(And, of course, no good Christian would ever divorce, nor any Christian church condone such a practice.)

How could they? The penalty for adultery is death (Leviticus 20:10).

Start gathering stones. We're going to be busy...... But first we go after the fortune-tellers (Leviticus 20:27)

[null and void]

So I'm out.

Shouldn't you publish an opus thread first?