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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:16 PM
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Mixed reaction to Cheney's daughter's pregnancy
Looks like the Christian right would rather eat Mary's baby than see him or her raised in a loving household. These are the sickest, most twisted fucks on the face on the earth. they disgust me.

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

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.

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"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."

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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 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," Earll 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.


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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:26 PM
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1. Good for Mary and Heather.
And screw her for being a Republican shrew whne its convenient for her.

Geez,is CWA so stupid that they don't understand sperm donation and that the donors give up their rights?
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:28 PM
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2. "Love can't replace a mother and a father."
Edited on Wed Dec-06-06 09:33 PM by JackBeck
Tell that to a single-parent.

On edit: Or the hundreds of thousands of children still waiting to be adopted.
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:06 PM
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4. 9/11 Widows, Iraq War Widows
Hell, to my Widowed Grandma who raised two kids alone during the Depression scurbbing floors on her knees to support them.

By "Concerned" women's standards, they ALL should rush right out and marry the first man available in order to have THEIR image of a family.

These people make me FURIOUS. Children need LOVE. End of story.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:48 PM
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6. I'm in awe over how their voices have risen to power.
Not to single out just one, but Phyllis Schlafly, who has a gay son.

These people make me just as furious, but when you have a complacent media at you beck and call, then you get to push an agenda. They all truly live in Opposite Land. Believe the opposite of what they say.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 09:29 PM
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3. cheney doesn't have sleepless nights. he has no conscience.
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left is right Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-06-06 10:08 PM
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5. i can't help but feel sorry for Mary's baby
No child deserves to be brought up in a home like that--Repuke that is. Besides the poor little child will be forced to sit on Dick's lap. I shudder at the thought.
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