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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
She's right; the country has been moving toward socialism for 20 years or more. Sadly.
Your gayness is a shame on your fine parents.....and they tolerate you because they love you, but I am pretty sure they are shamed by your actions.
The brutal harassment of Mary Cheney in the '94 campaign didn't come from the conservative side, as the article would have you believe, but from the gay establishment, re: their "Dear Mary" campaign.
'04, my bad.
Is Miss Cheney considered a pervert?
You're right. The conservative movement didn't shame Mary and correctly so. With the exception of Alan Keyes, that is.
Most of the attacks came from the left and specifically, in the form of the biggest faux compliment I've ever seen -- from Edwards and Kerry.
You know, Suzy - that's an ugly thing to say. I don't think the Cheney family feels that Mary has shamed them in any way
The media picks on this issue like a scab.
She's probably right and homosexual marriage will be legal in America eventually. I wonder what the ramifications will be? We already have well over 2 million homes with children who will never know their father according to a report on saw on CNN.
ReallY?
"The brutal harassment of Mary Cheney in the '94 campaign..."
I didn't know Mary Cheney was involved in in the contract with America!
Go marry a cucumber. We dont care.
Public Notiece: Since nobody seems willing to take the lowest possible road with the Mary Cheney threads, I hereby announce my intention to stop posting to them.
Yes, really!
I am pretty sure that you are wrong. What do they have to be shamed about?
How do you know what is in her parent's heart? Oh you must be a mind reader.
Really. Not everyone is as narrowminded as you, apparently.
There's plenty to be ashamed of, but that doesn't mean that a parent's love doesn't trump that.
If if I ever had a kid who killed someone, I don't think I could bring myself to be ashamed of him, though I'd grieve his poor decision-making.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if a dictator's parents could ever feel shame for his actions? Say a Saddam Hussein or a Paul Pot.
I wouldn't be surprised. We're doing a very poor job of educating our kids on the matter. The younger generation supports it, thanks in part to our schools, our media, and our unwillingness to speak to our kids about the matter.
You do realize that that option is not on the table as far as the Gaystapo is concerned. They won't stop pushing for "normalization" until re-education camps are full of us.
This is just pop psychology and anecdotal evidence from me but I have known and still know quite a few homosexual individuals. I can honestly say that their lives look to be very difficult and sad to me. There is a lot of pain there and I think that our young people in junior high and high school don't realize this.
Comparing someone who is gay to a killer, much less a mass killer, even if loosely, puts you way, way out there on the continuum.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if a dictator's parents could ever feel shame for his actions? Say a Saddam Hussein or a Paul Pot.
Steve and Mildred Pot were deeply ashamed of their son Paul, who had shown such great promise as a youth and ended up selling timeshares in Bermuda. On the other hand, their son Pol was a trouble maker from day one.
First I've heard that VP Cheney disagrees with Pres. Bush on the issue of sanctity of marriage .
I guess it's not so surprising as his daughter is gay. I love Dick Cheney, but I agree with Pres. Bush and am glad he is so strong on the sanctity of marriage.
"Comparing someone who is gay to a killer, much less a mass killer, even if loosely, puts you way, way out there on the continuum."
No, it does the exact opposite. I think most would agree that having a killer for a child is something more extreme than having a child who adopts a gay lifestyle. I said that I don't think that I could ever even feel shame over a child who went so far as to kill someone. If I felt that way about a murdering child, how would that put me in respect to a "lesser offense," such as having a gay child?
In what way does that put me out there in the continuum?
Unless you're saying that you'd feel ashamed to have a child who killed someone, then I'm not sure where you're coming from on this one.
I deserved that.... ;)
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
Another thread about Mary Cheney?
Not sure if I'm ready for it. Gack.
OK. But the one to me is like going 50 mph in a 45 mph zone, vis a vis getting your kicks torturing and then killing pre school children. In fact, I don't think parents of gay children have anything to be ashamed of at all, zero, zip, nada, and I suspect most would agree with me on that.
Another thread about Mary Cheney?
Not sure if I'm ready for it. Gack.
No bible quoting or asking about "hot lesbian sex." Pretty tame stuff.
This is why I don't like somew homosexuals. I only care about about the size and scope of the government, and taxes, while they only care about being able to have sex with the same sex, being able to marry them, and destroying the moral structure of our country. It's like gayness is a weird mental disease which turns you into a gay drone. I mean, has anyone noticed that black, white, yellow, etc. and they are homosexual, they all act the same!
But...OTOH, what that man was, and what he did is beyond my comprehension. I had to catch myself and say "That was Pol Pot he was poking fun at..." No, I cannot laugh at that.
Well, maybe, just a little...
Great. Now I feel guilty. Look what you have done.
Actually it is way out there on the continuum to conflate and attempt to compare what someone "is" versus to someone "does".
There are no "gay" people, 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.
Ya, sure, whatever.
Mary Cheney Considered Quitting 2004 Campaign Over Gay Marriage Issue
Who Cares... LOL -the homosexual activists that keep floating Mary Cheney related stories have about tapped the well dry... Time to move on!
-maybe [they] can talk the peace activist mom, Cindy Sheehan, into declaring herself a lesbian for peace? LOL -that would get a few more substantially meaningless headlines...
I disagree.
Shame on you.
Are there black people, or are they, too, ones who feel predisposed to engage in black activities?
Find anything that can enable identifying a homosexual... Go ahead...
OR stop promoting the leftist propaganda of the existence of a homosexual innate identity...
I believe a Massachusetts teacher justified a homosexually-oriented elementary school curriculum solely on the basis that marriage between people of the same sex was legal in Massachusetts now.
:) The old PC usage of words long established meanings.
Hate for instance, is the most overused, misused, abused, and most taken out of context, words in the English language.
The Cheney's love their daugther; they don't merely "tolerate" her. And I highly doubt they're ashamed of her.
But your projections are duly noted.
It was implimented by the former Republican governor, Paul Celucci, I think it got discontinued because it was disturbing.
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