It's a Cheney!

[MountainLaurel]

Ruth Marcus is dead on with this one.

My only regret about Mary Cheney's pregnancy is that it didn't happen earlier -- say, during the 2004 presidential race, when Cheney was working for her father's campaign and his running mate was busy trying to write discrimination against people like her into the Constitution.

Imagine a hugely pregnant Mary Cheney sitting in the vice president's box at the convention. Imagine Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, cuddling their newborn onstage at the victory celebration.

How perfectly that would have illustrated the clanging disconnect between the Republican Party's outmoded intolerance and the benign reality of gay families today.

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That could take some time, especially if Mary Cheney's political party has anything to do with it. As a resident of Virginia, which does not permit a gay parent to adopt, Poe will have no legal connection to the child that she and Cheney clearly intend to have and raise together. If the couple were to split up, Poe would have no legal right to see the child.

Virginia's newly adopted and expansively drafted constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage casts doubt on the ability of Cheney and Poe to write binding medical directives and wills. Without any legal protection, state or federal, against job discrimination -- the Bush administration opposes extending anti-discrimination laws to cover sexual orientation -- Mary Cheney could be fired simply because she is gay.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701440.html

[shain from kane]

1. Love that last line. Well, she was hired at her current job simply because she is gay.

She wrote a book that no one bought, simply because she is gay.

[kskiska]

3. But the advance money bought them a new house in Virginia

that Heather is currently renovating for the addition to their family.

I'm sure the advance was larger than the proceeds.

[rfranklin]

2. All those considerations were in action...

This family of stinking hypocritical crooks made sure that there would be no little "two Mommies" Cheney child to hamper the re-election campaign.