Could Dick Cheney be a Lesbian?
Cheney went off on CNN’s “Situation Room” host Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday’s episode, after Blitzer congratulated the Vice President on the impending birth of his grandchild, while adding that there are some conservative groups who are critical of Mary’s pregnancy.
Blitzer read him a statement from Focus on the Family, a social-conservative group that believes it’s not best for a child to be raised by single-sex parents, like Mary Cheney and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.
“Mary Cheney’s pregnancy raises the question of what’s best for children. Just because it’s possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father, doesn’t mean it’s best for the child.” [...]
Cheney: “I’m delighted -- I’m delighted I’m about to have a sixth grandchild, Wolf, and obviously think the world of both of my daughters and all of my grandchildren. And I think, frankly, you’re out of line with that question.”
Blitzer: “That was just a question that’s come up and it’s a responsible, fair question.” (source)
Why wasn’t it a fair question? Suddenly, now that the Focus on the Family (one of the Administrations’ backers) are questioning the construction or Mary Cheney’s family, her father tears Blitzer’s head off with a simple question. Usually people do that when something hits a nerve. It’s not as though Mary is being outed.
Cheney’s anger is misdirected. The people he should be shouting at is the Focus on the Family crowd, who should be focusing on their own damn families (people who throw stones at glass houses...). They are the ones who disrespected Mary’s family. Wolf Blitzer merely followed up with a question concerning the comments from Focus on the Family. But then again, if Cheney took them on, that could jeopardize contributions from Focus on the Family, and we can’t have that can we?
Which brings me to my question of Dick Cheney. He’s so damned defensive about this issue of his daughter’s family, that there is obviously something in his closet that he doesn’t want to get out. I would personally have a bigger issue with him being a lesbian (would be wrong on so many levels) than I would the war in Iraq. At least with the war in Iraq, I can understand it. He loves war because there is big money to be made (by some) in war. I get it. The anger he displays over a simple question, I don’t get. Dick Cheney is still acting like the year is 1955. Why?
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But that would have meant that he had to acknowledge the merits of the lesbian relationship. This way, he can have his cake, and eat it too; keep the religious wackos happy because he is still demonizing gay people, and keep in line with the bigotry that is the hallmark of the Bush Administration. In Oscar Wilde's day, that was "the love that dare not speak it's name." And so it is with DICK Cheney.
He's willing to continue to acknowledge that he has two daughters, damn big of him really, considering he's a two-faced Nazi. He's willing to acknowledge his grandchild that will be coming into this world because he, right along with the "Christian Right" all love "innocent" children, no matter what awful circumstances they may have to endure (a lesbian relationship among all things!!!).
But, he just can't bring himself to acknowledge that what his daughter has is A FAMILY. I place a lot of the blame for this right on Mary Cheney. Dick Cheney can thank his lucky stars that he doesn't have me as a son, because if he pulled that shit on me, he'd be hearing about it on CSPAN. Which, I suppose is one of the reasons I no longer talk to my family.
Mary can be ok with this arrangement I suppose, but what I'd really love to know from her lover (can't really call her a "spouse" since they live in Virgina) is this; what does it feel like to be unacknowledged, as if you don't exist?
Note that Cheney didn't say he is proud of his daughter's partner as well. What a asshole!