Mary Cheney: "My Baby Is Not A Political Statement"

[DeSwiss]

Oh yeah? I'm sure Mary and Heather both wishes that were the case. But it has become a political statement since people in Mary's party, her father, her mother and all those whose politics seek to control and dictate people's sex lives and their procreation decisions has made your baby a political statement. Unfortunately, your statement has been garbled in transmission.
Wake up Mary!!! I suppose that you and Heather have decided to live with this lie. But don't make your child live with it as well.....

Mary Cheney Publicly Defends Her Pregnancy

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: January 31, 2007

“When Heather and I decided to have a baby, I knew it wasn’t going to be the most popular decision,” Ms. Cheney said, referring to her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.

“This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.”

Cindi Leive, the editor of Glamour, asked Ms. Cheney if she had anything to say to critics like Mr. Dobson. Mr. Dobson wrote in Time magazine last month that years of social research “indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father.” He also wrote that his group believes that “birth and adoption are the purview of married heterosexual couples.” (Two of the researchers whom Mr. Dobson cited in his article have complained that Mr. Dobson distorted their views and said they disagreed with his conclusions.)

Ms. Cheney noted Mr. Dobson’s distortions of the research he cited and added: “Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years has shown there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents; what matters is being raised in a stable, loving environment.” She said Mr. Dobson was entitled to his opinion, “but he’s not someone whose endorsement I have ever drastically sought.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013102017_pf.html

*** - Another lie Mary. You did seek Dobson's endorsement. Back when you worked for your father's campaign you NEEDED his endorsement. But then I suppose everyone knows you were just window-dressing for the Log Cabiners, weren't you? Back then, the rabid, gay-bashing, hate-mongering, frothing-at-the-mouth RightWingNuts were all the rage. Now I guess, not so much. Mary, I hope you realize that your lies will find you out. Eventually.....

[emulatorloo]

1. All Cheney Family Members, Please return to the Undisclosed Location! eom

[DeSwiss]

7. And don't forget the Pampers! n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Jenny Fields said something similar in "The World According To Garp"

and look what happened to the both of them . . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp

[DeSwiss]

8. Yeah well...

...in the movie at least we got Robin Williams.

In real life we just get Dick!

[Virginia Dare]

3. A blessing from God that just so happened to be surgically

implanted to the tune of thousands of dollars worth of fertility treatment. Yes, that's one of the many blessings of being rich, Mary. :eyes:

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. I doubt fertility treatments would have done any good

Unless one of them has a penis hidden under there somewhere. :rofl:

Artificial insemination is a different thing entirely.

[Virginia Dare]

11. That would be a blessing from God...

depending on how you look at it! :rofl:

[DeSwiss]

13. What?!?!?!

"Unless one of them has a penis hidden under there somewhere."

Whoa! A hidden penis? Is that what the http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_sc/britain_virgin_birth">Komodo Dragons use? Or them http://www.nerve.com/Regulars/ScienceOfSex/09-19-00/09-19-00.asp">lesbian lizards in the desert southwest? Or is it something like a hidden agenda? I'm confused.....

[DeSwiss]

9. And may the Lord continue to bless us all....

....with her father's impeachment and subsequent incarceration for WAR CRIMES.

Amen.

[ThomCat]

4. Nobody's baby is a political statement.

But that doesn't stop the Republicons from turning everyone else's lives into fodder for their fake morality plays.
x(

[DeSwiss]

10. This is true...

...my kids were "economic statements." j/k

But they're still asking me for money, however!

[2Design]

5. they live in virginia and her partner has no rights and cannot be

at hospital
virginia is a hate state - they have the most discrimination in their constitutional amendments - so she better move before giving birth

[DeSwiss]

12. And just like in the olden times of the bible....

....if the child she bears is a male, it'll immediately possess more rights than his mother(s).

What a blessing......

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. The Stranger (Seattle) has this as a blog article

You may have heard of Dan Savage, sex-advice columnist, author and neologist (he is the one defined the word "santorum" as the mix of fecal matter and lubricant that is the result of anal sex)? He's the editor-in-chief of a weekly in Seattle called The Stranger. Here is what he had to say on Mary's statement:

Yes, it's a baby, not a prop. My kid isn't a prop either, but that never stopped right-wingers from attacking me and my boyfriend over our decision to become parents. The fitness of same-sex couples to parent is very much part of the political debate thanks to the GOP and the Christian bigots that make up its lunatic "base." You're a Republican, Mary, you worked on both of your father's campaigns, and you kept your mouth clamped shut while Karl Rove and George Bush ran around the country attacking gay people, gay parents, and our children in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. It's a little late to declare the private choices of gays and lesbians unfit for public debate, Mary.

And so long as your party insists on making the fitness of homosexuals to marry or parent--or, hell, exist--a subject of public debate, Mary, your decision to become a parent is germane and very much fit for public discussion and debate. The GOP's selective embrace of some pregnant dykes--only knocked-up lesbians with powerful connections will be treated with respect--is a disconnect that demands answers. From you, from your father, from your venomous mother, from the idiot president you helped elect. Is that fair? Maybe not. Want to blame someone? Go look in the mirror--and then come out swinging, Mary--for yourself, your partner, and your child.

His full article can be read at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=150579

[DeSwiss]

15. Thanks for the link TechBear....

...and I particularly loved this part:

"You sought Dobson's endorsement in the past—your father certainly has, and you worked on his campaigns—but now, to avoid tough questions, you want to qualify and minimize your past sucking up to the likes of Dobson by stating that you never sought his endorsement all that, you know, drastically or anything.

Again, Mary, nice try. You kept your mouth clamped shut when your father needed the political support of assholes like Dobson. And now that your dad is a despised lame-duck VP, dad's gay-bashing political allies feel free to treat you with the same contempt with which they have long treated other gay and lesbians. And now you cry foul?

Sorry, Mary, and fuck you. You and your whole fucked-up family crawled into bed with bigots like Dobson when it suited you. And now you and your whole fucked-up family have some explaining to do. So welcome to the political debate, Mary, and remember...

Your side started it. It only serves you right that you're going to have to finish it."

I couldn't have said it better.......

[BR_Parkway]

16. "our" baby would have been better, but apparently you think that

your partner is just along for the ride?

[DeSwiss]

17. Yeah...

...I caught that too. Hmmmm....


WTF!!! What do
you mean MY baby???"

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. When they say...

“This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.”

It really means...

"Stop asking me how I rationalize my political party's hatred for people of my sexual orientation because I don't have a good answer."

[DeSwiss]

19. Now we're getting somewhere. Or.....

"Stop asking me how I rationalize my political party's hatred for people of my sexual orientation because I still want to inherit all that Halliburton money from dear old dad. Ask me after he dies....."