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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 06:26 PM Aug 2013

Oh BOY. I'll bet Mary Cheney is gift-wrapping a big "fuck you" for her sis as you read this.

“I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage,” she said in a statement. “I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.”

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was responding to a reported “push poll” that led voters to believe that she “aggressively promotes gay marriage.” She is running against incumbent Republican Mike Enzi for the state’s Senate seat.

Mary Cheney married partner Heather Poe in Washington DC -- where same-sex marriage is legal -- last June. The couple has two children.

In a Facebook status posted Friday, Mary Cheney wrote "For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage," the New York Times reported.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/30/20262137-liz-cheney-i-am-not-pro-gay-marriage?lite
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Oh BOY. I'll bet Mary Cheney is gift-wrapping a big "fuck you" for her sis as you read this. (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Aug 2013 OP
She is dead wrong about a lot of things. n/t chervilant Aug 2013 #1
She's brain and heart dead Sugarcoated Aug 2013 #2
I wonder if Liz Cheney feels the same way about inter-racial marriage. Tanuki Aug 2013 #3
I don't want to even know what the Cheneys say behind closed doors. Amerigo Vespucci Aug 2013 #4
When Dick Cheney seems like the compassionate one in the family, that's fucked up. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #5
+1 truebluegreen Aug 2013 #6
family reuinion--meet the fuckers dembotoz Aug 2013 #7

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
3. I wonder if Liz Cheney feels the same way about inter-racial marriage.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 07:13 PM
Aug 2013

When she says, "I believe the issue of marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves,” that seems to open the door for bigotry and discrimination even beyond the groups she herself wants to marginalize and deny equal protection.

Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
4. I don't want to even know what the Cheneys say behind closed doors.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 07:17 PM
Aug 2013

I'll bet it's as bad as it gets, but ignorance is bliss. I just don't want to know.

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