(Lesbian) Mary Cheney and Partner Are About to Be Moms

[Hedgehog]

Definitely.

You can tell the members here who do not have good relationships with their mothers, because their view of women is warped.

Likewise, I've never met a stripper, escort, pornstar etc who had a healthy relationship with her father

I know a girl who's used to work as a porn actress. She and her dad gets along quite well, it seems.

She's currently studying to get her Masters degree, and while she may not be a genius, she's still well above average.

YIP
Zack

[sandycoosworth]

I know a Chinese dude named Yao who is 7 feet tall...

[Mr. Intenseone]

Link?

lol

[sandycoosworth]

If he saw my mom now he would not want a pic...Love ya ma.

I could masturbate to the home appliance section of a Sears catalogue if need be, make with teh titty pics!

[sandycoosworth]

So was that like a no ?

[Dos Equis]

Mixed reaction to Cheney's daughter's pregnancy
POSTED: 5:47 p.m. EST, December 6, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservative leaders voiced dismay Wednesday at news that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney, is pregnant, while a gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" for serving in an administration that has opposed recognition of same-sex couples.

Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expecting a baby in late spring, said Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for the vice president.

"The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation" to the arrival of their sixth grandchild, McBride said.

Mary Cheney was an aide to her father during the 2004 campaign, and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. She and Poe moved from Colorado to Virginia a year ago to be closer to the Cheney family.

Family Pride, which advocates on behalf of gay and lesbian families, noted that Virginia last month became one of 27 states with a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

"Unless they move to a handful of less restrictive states, Heather will never be able to have a legal relationship with her child," said Family Pride executive director Jennifer Chrisler.

The couple "will quickly face the reality that no matter how loved their child will be. ... he or she will never have the same protections that other children born to heterosexual couples enjoy," Chrisler said. "Grandfather Cheney will no doubt face a lifetime of sleepless nights as he reflects on the irreparable harm he and his administration have done to the millions of American gay and lesbian parents and their children."

For years, Mary Cheney's openness about her sexual orientation had posed a dilemma for conservative activists who admire Dick Cheney's stance on many issues but consider homosexuality a sin.

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America described the pregnancy as "unconscionable."

"It's very disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring into the world a child that will never have a father," said Crouse, a senior fellow at the group's think tank. "They are encouraging people who don't have the advantages they have."

Crouse said there was no doubt that the news would, in conservatives' eyes, be damaging to the Bush administration, which already has been chided by some leaders on the right for what they felt was halfhearted commitment to anti-abortion and anti-gay-rights causes in this year's general election.

Carrie Gordon Earll, a policy analyst for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family, expressed empathy for the Cheney family but depicted the newly announced pregnancy as unwise.

"Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea," said. "Love can't replace a mother and a father."

The vice president's office declined to elaborate on the circumstances of Mary Cheney's pregnancy.

The news was welcomed by the president of the largest national gay-rights group, Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign.

"Mary and Heather's decision to have a child is an example that families in America come in all different shapes and sizes," he said. "The bottom line is that a family is made up of love and commitment."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/06/cheney.daughters.ap/index.html

[sandycoosworth]

"Grandfather Cheney will no doubt face a lifetime of sleepless nights as he reflects on the irreparable harm he and his administration have done to the millions of American gay and lesbian parents and their children."

[Dos Equis]

Silly.

[kh300]

i dont know about you guys, but where i grew up if i had two moms. i would get a beatdown at school on a daily basis

[BayGBM]

Bush glad for Cheney's daughter, but still leery of gay parenting
- James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times
Saturday, December 16, 2006

(12-16) 04:00 PST Washington -- Although he recently expressed confidence that Mary Cheney will make a loving parent, President Bush believes it is best that a child be raised by a man and woman married to each other, the president's spokesman said Friday.

The pregnancy of Vice President Dick Cheney's younger daughter, a lesbian, has reignited public discussion of gays and lesbians becoming parents. Some social conservatives, who strongly support Bush and the vice president on most issues, greeted the news of Mary Cheney's pregnancy with dismay, arguing that it undermined efforts to emphasize the primacy of the traditional family unit.

Commenting on the controversy, Bush last week told People magazine that Mary Cheney would be "a loving soul to her child. And I'm happy for her."

Pressed on whether his remark contradicted views he previously expressed that being raised by gays and lesbians falls short of an ideal situation for a child, he avoided a direct response.

"Mary Cheney is going to make a fine mom, and she's going to love this child a lot," he said.

In 2005, Bush said in an interview that he thought it best for children to be raised by married men and women. He does not favor marriage of same-sex couples.

"I believe children can receive love from gay couples, but the ideal is -- and studies have shown that the ideal is -- where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman," he told the New York Times.

On Friday, White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked whether the president stood by this belief. "Yes, he does," Snow replied.

"But he also believes that every human life is sacred and that every child who comes into this world deserves love," Snow said. "And he believes that Mary Cheney's child will in fact have loving parents."

Snow said Bush had not addressed whether he thought children raised by gays and lesbians were at a disadvantage.

In the People interview, Bush said that he found out about Cheney's pregnancy when the vice president "took me aside and gave me the good news."

Bush added that the vice president and his wife, Lynne, "are very happy for Mary."

The president did not mention Mary Cheney's partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.

Since the Bush administration took office in early 2001, Mary Cheney has played a low-key but growing role in its political operation. In 2004, she held a senior staff position in the Bush re-election campaign and regularly traveled with her father aboard Air Force Two.

She is due to give birth in the late spring. Neither the child's father nor how Cheney was impregnated has been publicly revealed.