From Mary Cheney's Perspective
What to do with Mary Cheney? On President Bush, she states...
“I think he’s a very good man,” Cheney said of Bush. “On these issues, he hasn’t caught up.” Cheney is now back in private life, working at AOL and says inside her family, she and Heather are free to be themselves in love. Sawyer asked Cheney if she and Heather planned to marry.
“Well, from my perspective? Heather and I already are married,” she said. “We have built a home and a life together. Um, I hope I get to spend the rest of my life with her. The way I look at it, is we’re just waiting for state and federal law to catch up with us.”
Two things I’d like to point out. On MANY issues, President Bush has not “caught up”, and I honestly don’t think he has the IQ to catch up.
Mary and Heather... Dears, from ANYONE’S perspective, YOU ARE NOT MARRIED! So get over it. And if you think you are, just try to go for that bereavement leave if Heather dies, or a hardship leave should she become sick for an extended period of time, or try to have access to her social security benefits after she’s gone. In fact Mary, I could keep going on... 1,500 more items are given to marriage at the federal level that you and Heather will not have.
So you just keep thinking that you are married. In the mean time, I want what you are smoking!
Cheney has had to deal with hearing hateful names about gays and lesbians from the right wing of her own party. And gay rights activists say that Cheney’s silence is just a form of hypocrisy. They even made a milk carton that said, “Mary Cheney Missing.”
She jokes about that. “That’s - ooh, God, that’s a nice picture.”
Her reply to their criticism is simple. “We each have to choose our own path,” she said. “I respect their opinion. But it is not the path that I would choose for myself.”
True enough. We each have to choose our own paths. I try to understand what it’s like for Mary. She claims to have support from her family. On the other hand, how much support can she really have, being involved in a party that has total disdain for people like her? It’s not like she can just get away from all of that since her father is second in command of that operation.
I suppose for Mary, it’s a big dilemma - to keep the relationship with her family, or sacrifice her personal integrity. In this, you can’t have both. Mary, you are not married. Accept that and move on. To make statements like, “Well, from my perspective? Heather and I already are married”, is just plain insulting. I don’t say that about Kent and myself. It’s time you embraced reality honey.
Reality 1: You will have your family’s love and support as long as you are a “nice girl” and play along. You can be lesbian, but keep your damn mouth shut about it - unless you are willing to lump those damned “gay activists” all up on one group as being bad, right up with with all the other evils of the world.
Reality 2: Never ever ask your Mom and Dad to come out in support of full marriage for you and your partner. Having your Dad say that “states should decided that” just isn’t good enough - not when the big ticket items that are given to marriage occur at the federal level. Your Dad knows this, and so do you.
I honestly just don’t understand some people. Mary Cheney is one of them.
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