We do know going back at least 15 years, we know more about how the Cheneys believed in “gay marriage” than just about any other politicians.
Wanting to campaign on the homosexual agenda to the republican base in 2000, is as strong as it gets, perhaps if you are just totally obsessed with how Dick Cheney felt about the concept of “gay marriage” in the 1970s, or 1980s, you could try doing what sounds to me, like impossible research.
‘how Dick Cheney felt about the concept of “gay marriage” in the 1970s, or 1980s, you could try doing what sounds to me, like impossible research.’
I lived in the 1970s and 1980s and such a concept was unthinkable for the vast majority of us back then.
The question of which came first has to be boil down to when there are published accounts of either of the Cheney parents espousing that people who engage in homosexuality should be marrying and whether those accounts pre or post date the Cheney daughter’s behavioral choice.
According the Wikipedia article about the daughter, it was she who encouraged her father to support marriage by people engaging in homosexuality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cheney
That explicit reported information, if true, and it does seem quite plausible and likely, suggests to that he had a different point of view prior to his daughter’s influence - and that is my general point about these politicians who do an about face when it’s their kid who goes against the tenets of their families and the fabric of Judaeo-Christian society.