Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.I wish Mary Cheney and her growing family well as they try to navigate the hostile world in which they find themselves, thanks in no small part to the Grand Old Party, which she has so diligently served.
It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night.
This is, of course, precisely the kind of situation the Bush administration and the GOP has been claiming we need to prevent, because it threatens to destroy American families and thusly shred the very fabric of our nation. But the only people who are going to suffer here are Moms and their baby, because Cheney and Poe live in Virginia, where Virginia voters just passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in November. It’s also unlikely Poe will be considered a legal parent of their child. The only family being undermined is theirs.
It would be nice to think that perhaps the most vociferous homobigots of the Right would take this opportunity to reevaluate their positions, but that’s not going to happen. Cheney and Poe will instead be lucky if they’re not willfully exploited to pass more legislation limiting the marriage and parenting rights of same-sex couples.
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