December 8, 2006: Although I can’t think of an Administration less likely to do anything to help LGBT famlies than this one, Mary Cheney’s pregnancy might be one of the best things to happen for us in a long time.

This is the Vice President’s daughter - his daughter! - openly becoming the most famous gay mom since Rosie! This is huge! How will the conservatives and the religious right reconcile their hatred and intolerence towards our families when one of their very own joins our ranks?

Their statements so far are, of course, ugly and uninformed. These people who claim to be so loving once again show their true colors. Some nightmare called Robert Knight of the Media Research Center offered this: “I think it’s tragic that a child has been conceived with the express purpose of denying it a father.” Can you imagine someone so ugly and unkind that they would frame it in this way? That the Vice President’s daughter is having a child to “deny it a father,”rather than to build a loving family? Where is the love, people?

Certainly not with the charming Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America who described the pregnancy as “unconscionable.” I suppose she’d know. No wonder she’s concerned!

She went on to say that “Not only is she doing a disservice to her child, she’s voiding all the effort her father put into the Bush Administration” To her credit, Ms Crouse didn’t say whether this is a good thing or bad.

Not to be outdone was always good-for-laugh Paul Cameron of The Family Research Institute, which describes itself as “a non-profit scientific and educational corporation that believes the strength of our society depends on preserving America’s historic moral framework and the traditional family.” Of course, Dr. Cameron once again uses his peerless scientific scrutiny and insights to predict Mary Cheney’s early death or to accuse her of exposing her child to sexually -transmitted diseases and basically committing child abuse. What lovely well-wishes for the happy mom-to-be. Here they are in his own “scientifc and educational” words:

By this selfish action, Cheney is not merely disrupting society, she is being cruel to her child:

• Mary, 37, is currently ‘partnered’ with Heather Poe, 45. The median age of death for lesbians is around the late 50’s. If Poe and Cheney stay together, odds are this child will lose at least one caretaker before graduating high school.
• Children of homosexuals testify that day-to-day living is more difficult – and they are more apt to report personal disturbance as a consequence.
• A high proportion of lesbian ‘partnerings’ break apart — with custody issues haunting the child for the rest of his life. (Scott’s note: Not like that 50% of heterosexual couples who divorce!)
• The child will disproportionately associate with homosexuals – who are as a class considerably more apt to have STDs and a criminal history, be interested in sex with children, involved in substance abuse, etc.
• The child will have a much higher probability of learning homosexual tastes (at least a third of lesbian’s children adopt homosexuality). (Scott’s note: Is this a dig at Vice President’s wife, who famously wrote about lesbian sex in one of her novels. How slanderous!)

“Her pregnancy is further evidence that participation in homosexual activity distorts value systems, inducing practitioners to harm the commonweal. Our society already has too many children born without the benefits of marriage; Cheney’s action is not only a bad example, but poor treatment of an innocent child. (Scott’s note: Not to mention all that harm done the ‘commonweal!’”

Imagine what they’d be saying if this was the daughter of a Democratic president! Let’s all take a moment to thank the heavens that Chelsea Clinton is heterosexual!

At least the Vice President and his wife said they were looking forward to the arrival of their grandchild. And according the the White House “when Vice President Cheney told President Bush that his daughter was pregnant, the president congratulated him.” Good for them!

Now, let’s see if they put into public policy marriage equality and other protections that would help families like Mary’s who aren’t as rich, famous, and priviledged as hers.

This Washington Post article sums it all up nicely.

And I agree with the President! Congratulations and best wishes to Cheney and Poe!

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