Daddy Dickie may not want to talk about Mary Cheney‘s controversial pregnancy, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have something to say on the matter.
Speaking on a panel for Glamour Magazine (yeah, we were kind of surprised, too), 37-year Mary broke it all down:
When Heather [Poe, her girlfriend] and I decided to have a baby, I knew it wasn’t going to be the most popular decision. 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.
Go, girl!
As for James Dobson‘s equally contentious article in Time Magazine in which Dobson blasted Cheney’s dykey decision, insisting that children are better off with a man and a woman, Mary says she’s never really cared what he thinks, adding,
How about we take this to the next level?
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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.
And if there’s anyone who’s stable and loving, it’s Mary Cheney. As for the rest of her family…well, we suppose Mama Lynn’s pretty chill. We don’t advise she allow Daddy Dickie too much alone time. He may not be able to resist the urge to sap the child’s life force.
jack e. jett
Rosemary’s Baby Part 2
the reason cheney dick, is nervous about this is because
HE FUCKED MARY AND MADE HER PREGNANT.
jack jett
Threnody
Can you imagine growing up with Dick Cheney for a grandpa? Sure he can shower you with gifts thanks to all that Haliburton money, but he’s still scary as hell. The fact that he has a lesbian daughter makes me think there’s cosmic justice at work.
Nomen Nominum
We have freedom of speech, and people can mention anyone or anything in political debates, even evil Dick’s bastard grandchild.
Mattymatt
“It is not a prop to be used in a debate …”
No, of course not. That’s what every other gay parent’s kids are for.
nystudman
Threnody, like your grandparents are so ultra-fabulous? I have a feeling that Dick Cheney can even be (gasp!) charming, in his own, gravitas, shoot-in-the-back way. Look, he’s going to be the kid’s grandpa, so give the poor kid some slack, and let him love his grandpa — even if he is a warmongering, grasping, conniving sob!
Threnody
Actually my grandparents are super-fabulous, now that you mention it. They have the most beautiful, gorgeously decorated house I’ve been in. They fly to Mexico in the winter and party with gay couples. And they try to get the grandkids drunk at Christmas.
Not bad eh?
audiored
Shocks me that people don’t see this as something that should be talked about. And that the Cheney family shouldn’t be forced to answer to the public.
This bitch, coming from a rich powerful republican family, can act cavalier while her father attempts to deny the basic human rights of millions of other queer couples. As if she is above it all and the real world and laws don’t apply to her and her family.
This event is very political. And the fact that Dick Cheney is unwilling to answer questions and justify his position and world view he is seeking to impose on the rest of the US. It shows just how hypocritical these people are. This raises a completely fair set of question that he should be compelled to answer.
ChristopherM
Audiored, it should be noted that it isn’t just her father attempting to deny basic human rights to millions of queer couples…Mary took a $100,000 annual salary from the Bush/Cheney campaign to promote them doing so. If she and her gal split up, her gal is screwed since thanks to Mary’s dad, we continue not to have parental rights in most states. But of course, that doesn’t affect Mary herself so I’m sure she’s not particularly concerned.
I hope her kid is healthy and happy, but but as for her, fuck Mary Cheney.
AG
No this is not just her business. She is a public figure and her party has made a statement that Gays should not be married or consider themselves a family. They are opposed to any alternate form of child rearing. Her father is the vice-president and she worked for him. She must answer for this, whether it is a blessing or not. If it is all right for his daughter, it is all right for everyones’ daughter.