Posted on 05/08/2006 4:06:47 PM PDT by skandalon
She says she considered quitting her role as campaign adviser over the issue of gay marriage, but Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney tells ABC News "Primetime" anchor Diane Sawyer her sexuality has never created problems within her family.
Mary Cheney discussed the campaign, her feelings about President Bush, life with her partner of 14 years, and what it was like to come out as gay to her parents.
"I struggled with my decision to stay on the 2004 campaign," Cheney told "Primetime." Her personal challenge came when President Bush said the nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
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Ditto your post Peach, sad but true.
It was not known at the time by the public; but he surely knew.
Or you could be right -- maybe he didn't.
I am not sure that there was much communication there. He might not have.
And gets away with it because she is the daughter of a republican!!! Imagine if she were from a liberal family!!!
That is good -an "I don't know" is better that a faithful claim that it is innate...
simply defies all anecdotal evidence
The anecdotal evidence of a separate human like species that procreates homosexually is supported by NO science...
Yeah.
I wonder if he still "lives" there.......LOL.
Just curious: and you certainly don't have to answer, but do you have children or grandchildren?
You think the Cheney's have personalities akin to criminals and you think I don't make any sense?
You may realize this but I should point it out for those may not... when somebody says:
There are no "gay" people,
It's important to keep the statement in context. He continued his statement with:
there are people (always heterosexual) who feel predisposed cause unknown to engage in homosexual activity and or people (always heterosexual) who actually choose to engage in homosexual activity.
what he probably means is there is no gay gene. There is no genetic test or procedure (experimental or otherwise) that can determine one's sexual orientation.
Some people experience same-sex attraction. From what ex-gays have stated, their same-sex attraction isn't a choice because they are confused about their sexuality, but their behavior is always a choice. An ex-gay on this forum stated:
overcoming homosexuality has less to do with how a man relates to women and much more to do with how a man relates to other men.That's an important point to understand.
When somebody claims to be gay and we believe them, but we stop short of believe the ex-gay, what we're doing is using a double standard. The only available evidence is the claim of the gay or ex-gay, so people should ask themselves why they believe one but not the other.
I am not taking any tangents...
Well, doesn't that work out well for you.
Do I need to read this thread, or can I pretty much assume the usual junk is on here, and go on to something else?
Move along. ;-)
When somebody claims to be ex-gay and we believe them, but we stop short of believe the gay, what we're doing is using a double standard.
The only available evidence is the claim of the gay or ex-gay, so people should ask themselves why they believe one but not the other.
Is this your idea of moral equivalence? Homosexuality is morally equivalent to killing someone or being a dictator?
But what is it to be Mary Cheney inside her parents' Republican party — a party that opposes civil rights legislation protecting gays?
Clearly this statement is designed to elicit a particular reaction from the reader. It leaves the impression that those who practice homosexuality are "without protection" because of Republicans. This is not the case. I don't want the way a person chooses to have sex to be considered a trait alongside race or religion, and given special protection because of it.
But the Republican Party does not believe that homosexuals are undeserving of equal rights, or should not be protected under the law. Clearly this is not the case since homosexuals are in virtually every walk of life, earning lots of money and advancing in jobs.
Of course there's the Queer By Choice folks, who claim to make up 8% of the homosexual population.
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