Posted on 05/30/2007 10:04:56 AM PDT by Between the Lines
On May 23, 2007, the White House, silently and without any fanfare, released an official White House photo of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcoming their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, into the Cheney fold.
The beautiful little tyke weighed in at 8 lbs., 6 oz. and was born at 9:46 a.m. at Sibley House in Washington, D.C.
What is extremely troubling is the official White House caption that appears underneath the photo on the official White House website:
... His parents are the Cheney's daughter Mary, and her partner, Heather Poe. White House photo by David Bohrer.
Since when have two homosexual women been able to naturally procreate?
Fact is Mary Cheney, the Vice President's daughter - in one way or another - received a male's sperm. She is the biological mother, parent number one, and some man, somewhere out there, is Samuel David's real biological father, parent number two.
Unlike the official White House photo caption, a man and a woman, a Daddy and a Mommy, are Samuel David Cheney's REAL biological parents.
Then who is Heather Poe?
Heather Poe is Mary Cheney's live-in lesbian lover. She may act like a parent, she may treat the baby as a parent, she may love this baby with all of her heart, but in this reality we all live in, Heather Poe is NOT the baby's real parent. She has NO biological connection to the child whatsoever. Some man, the baby's real Daddy, is the child's other REAL parent.
If the Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this homosexual game of "house," then all have chosen their roles and designated lesbian lover Heather Poe as the "Daddy."
Everyone knows there can only be one REAL biological Mommy. We are all grown adults. Playing "house" is a game for children, not for The White House or the Vice President and his wife.
What is so hypocritical of this Administration is its "double-speak."
President George W. Bush held several presses conferences calling for a Federal Marriage Amendment to protect the God-ordained institution of marriage between one man and one woman, while homosexuals pushed for the union of two men or two women to be equally recognized as real "marriage."
However, the President's number two, right hand man, Vice President Dick Cheney, clearly rebels against his superior, makes a public mockery of the President and the current Administration he is supposed to represent, and clearly holds to a different set of moral standards and beliefs.
When President Bush stood on the victory stage several years ago after being elected into office by values voters, Mary Cheney was on stage as well with her lesbian lover, Heather Poe. It was a slap in the face to the values voters who had just elected the duo into office. That wound has never healed.
While this little innocent child Samuel David Cheney deserves every fighting chance at life, the sins of two women, Mary Cheney and Heather Poe, have deliberately denied the Vice President's grandson one of the most basic human rights of all: the right to a Daddy and a Mommy.
I say shame on the White House, shame on the President and shame on the Vice President for allowing such a caption to be "officially" added onto the White House website and such a beautiful photo of two happy grandparents and their new grandchild.
I guess we can tragically and officially say both the White House and Bush Administration have officially recognized the sinful sexual unions of homosexuals, as well as recognized and embraced the tragedy of the social experiment of homosexual parenting.
O ye of little faith.
Don't hold back, tell me how you really feel. After all it is all about feelings, what is right for the child is irrelevant.
Do you have any gay children? If not, then what you think you would or wouldn't do in this case is just speculation and irrelevant. It is amazing how pious one can be when they themselves have not been tested.
But do please enlighten me as to what you would have done and if you can, do try not to make it sound like a leftist gay pamphlet on the subject.
This should be interesting.
“The paernts are the mother and whoever donated the sperm.”
Biologically, yes. Legally, no.
Somewhat off topic (A mini-hijacking of the thread!)
Medical science is already making so much of this type of arguement moot.
From The Baltimore Sun, May 17, 2007 (excerpt)...
A baby conceived from an egg donated by one woman and implanted in another may have no mother at all under Maryland law, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.
Issued more than four years after the matter was brought to the Court of Appeals, the 4-3 opinion creates blank spaces under “mother” in the birth certificates of twins born in 2001 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
The man who arranged for the children to be born from his sperm and donated eggs, and the woman with whom he arranged to carry them, brought the case. The two wanted it made clear that she had no legal claims or responsibility for the children.
(Snip)
“What had not been fathomed exists today,” Chief Judge Robert M. Bell wrote for the majority. “The methods by which people can produce children have changed.”
The ruling is pioneering because of its basis on the state’s Equal Rights Amendment: The court found that paternity laws apply equally to men and women.
(End of Excerpt)
An attorney friend of mine states rulings such as this chances leading to “gestating” literally becoming much more of a “for profit” industry - since there will be no chance the “gestation/birth” mother will ever be considered the “legal” mother and, therefore, have no responsibility for the child. We shall see.
We told each of our boys at a young age about the adoptions and this has made our family stronger. Our boys know they were wanted and chosen. They would have figured out the adoption themselves anyway since they resemble their biological mother's family and don't look like my wife and me at all.
I'm happy that you were able to adopt as well. I'm sure you have found it as fulfilling as me or you wouldn't have done it four times.
Actually it has nothing to do with gay or straight in this case. It is simply a matter of a parent who is so much of a control freak as to deprive thier own child of the joy of parenthood. Your daughter would have been justified in moving away from you, birthing a beautiful child, and never even telling you about it. What really steames me is the self satisfied undertone you use when you tell your agonizing story. My prayers are with your daughter and the rest of your family whom I presume you have bullied as well.
Your daughter would have been justified in moving away from you, birthing a beautiful child, and never even telling you about it.
The fact that she and I are very close testifies that you are wrong about me.
What really steames me is the self satisfied undertone you use when you tell your agonizing story.
No, what really steams you is that not everyone buys into the idea of gay families and that some bonehead bigoted person like me was in a position to thwart one little part of your gay agenda.
However, I doubt that other grandchildren would be celebrated in such a emphatic manner.
Yes, the woman is doing what an aunt or a family friend who lives with the mother might do. Yes, she is parenting, but she represents a whole new kind of social relationship and it is a relationship I think immoral. What bothers me the most is that some are now saying that I ought not to say that it is immprtal, that I have no right to say this.
You do not know anything about me to be making such disparaging remarks about my character.
I know that you dont think your daughter can be a good mother because of some silly predjudice so you decided for her that she will not be one.
The fact that she and I are very close testifies that you are wrong about me.
I’d love to know what she thinks about that statement.
No, what really steams you is that not everyone buys into the idea of gay families and that some bonehead bigoted person like me was in a position to thwart one little part of your gay agenda.
I said nothing about gay families...the only family I was discussing was yours.
I’ll bet you would have loved that baby...sorry you will never get the chance but I’m even more sorry for your daughter.
Yes, it has been amazing. But i adopted a sibling set of four (the girls came first — planned — and then one year later, the boys — not planned by me, only God).
So I’m keeping them altogether and life is awesome.
They are not the parents.
All that fake artifical donor stuff does not make parents.
I do have to wonder what these people have to say to the countless adopted children out there. All the ones that are now in good, loving homes. I’d love to see them go up to a friend of mine and try to tell her the kid she fought so hard to adopt and loves with all her heart isn’t hers just because she didn’t give birth to him.
Imagine a white hot knife, the largest knife you’ve ever held. Now, imagine someone stabbing you with that blade, then twisting it violently before ripping it out.
A little melodramatic don't you think. My daughter hates drama queens.
That’s what it feels like to a child every time they hear ‘I love you, but not what you do.’
BS. If loving a person is conditional to approving all of their actions then you could never really love anyone, because it is impossible to be in complete agreement with every action. Unconditional love requires us to separate the person from their actions.
I would bet your daughter cries that her parents would make such a hate filled statement to her.
I have no doubt that she agonized and cried over this. But she is a big girl and able to defend herself. In all of the negative posts to me about this, not one even hinted at what would be best for the child or how the child will feel growing up with two mommies. No, every single one of them dealt with only how my daughter or how they themselves felt.
My concerns were only for an unborn child, yours is only for the right to do whatever we want with no thought for consequences.
Hmmm...
Maybe The White House has listened to Howard Stern:
“Lesbians mean big ratings!!!”
What's that to you? Why is that any of your damned business?
My comment:
“Fact is, two lesbians are going to raise a child that will have instilled in him that homosexuality is a normal and accepted lifestyle.”
Your reply:
“What’s that to you? Why is that any of your damned business?”
My reply, to your reply:
HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DEVIANT, IMMORAL LIFESTYLE! Boom!
So what? There's a lot of "deviant" things that consenting adults do. Why is it any of your damned business what they do?
I sense hostility, anger and a bit of emotional distress.
Normalizing such behavior as is the case with the Cheny’s, causes young people to become deceived into thinking this behavior is ok, natural and accepted.
It is not.
Homosexual behaviors lead to social decay just as drugs, pedophilia, adultery and do forth.
Someone like the Vice President should keep such things under wraps within his household, not promoting it as a social norm.
For instance, would you care if our next president was someone who engaged in polygamy at one time? Even though he does not practice it now, he still is an open supporter of polygamy.
In fact, at a commencement speech full of young people, hints to the crowd that taking on two wives is really ok and that society will soon accept the practice, so be diligent and keep up the good work!
That’s absurd. The same goes with two homosexuals getting married and raising a child.......breeds social decay.
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