Mary Cheney's Baby

(Read to the tune of "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka)

First of all, GOOD FOR HER! It's a wonderful thing when two people can share their lives with each other and raise a child in a loving home... just leave grandpa out of it!

Mary Cheney and Heather Poe, her partner of 15 years, are expecting their first child in the Spring. They moved from Colorado to Virginia a year ago to be closer to the Cheney family. Virginia is one of seven states where voters approved anti-gay-marriage amendments during the midterm election in November. Is that a problem?

From the Dallas Voice:

Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Pride, a national organization that advocates for LGBT people and their families, said news of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy exemplifies the inequities faced by LGBT-headed families.“As Mary and Heather enter into the life-changing roles of parents, they will quickly face the reality that no matter how loved their child will be — by its mothers and its grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and close family friends — he or she will never have the same protections that other children born to heterosexual couples enjoy,” Chrisler said in a statement released Wednesday. “Mary and Heather currently live in Virginia. Unless they move to a handful of less restrictive states, Heather will never be able to have a legal relationship with her child.”

Chrisler accused the vice president of having been “complicit in the largest full-scale attack on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community in modern history. He, his president and his political party have repeatedly targeted the LGBT community and LGBT families for scapegoating as part of their calculated political strategy and have attacked at all levels the rights and protections his own daughter will need to ensure a strong, healthy, legally protected family.”

And I LOVE this line:

“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.” Chrisler said.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS?! Obviously she hasn't personally met Dick Cheney. I'm guessing that he probably sleeps soundly on a bed made of human skeletal remains and the mattresses are stuffed with large piles of blood money.
And then you have the other side of the coin:

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.
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," she said. "Love can't replace a mother and a father."

Well, damned if you do, damned if you don't! The gay/lesbian side is pissed because Mary doesn't speak out for gay rights and the Religious Right think it's an abomination. These are the same freaks that were admonishing John Kerry during the 2004 debates for bringing up Mary Cheney and calling it an "invasion of privacy". Damed hypocites!

But wait, there's more!

From the Mike Malloy Show, December 6th, 2006:

Now the hypocrisy of the Bush Crime Family - the hypocrisy of the ruling elite of this country... I wonder if Rick Santorum or Bill Frist or some of these evil sons of bitches are going to send a congratulatory letter to the Cheneys or to Mary Cheney specifically...

Bless them. This is not about them or their baby. This is about the evil sons of bitches in the Republican Party, every single one of them who have demonized the idea of gay or lesbian or transgendered or bisexual or whatever people living normal lives, especially where it concerns children.

...I know there's an effort here in Georgia to pass a law that bans the adoption of children by gay couples or a gay individual. Aww, you evil sons of bitches, you evil pigs, you really are! But how do you people feel? You right-wingers, who think that the sun rises and sets in one of Dick Cheney's body orifices. How do you feel? I mean, he gives you the finger!

'Oh, vote for us and we'll stop the queers. Oh, by the way, my daughter, who happens to be gay, is pregnant. Yay! We're gonna have a grandchild. You other people? Screw you! You're not gonna have any children. You gay and lesbian people? No, no, you don't get any. We do though, because we're the Cheneys! WE'RE THE POWER STRUCTURE!'