Mary's child (Samuel David Cheney) gets an easy ride

[Leo 9]

Mary's child gets an easy ride

By Saptarshi Ray / USA 06:52pm
Thursday May 24 2007

The message it seems is Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter; she's just had a child with her life partner. Get over it America.

The US vice-president's daughter, Mary, delivered an 8lb 6oz boy yesterday, the first child for her and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.


Dick and Lynne Cheney with their sixth grandchild.
Photograph: David Brother/EPA

Samuel David Cheney becomes the sixth grandchild of Dick and Lynne Cheney. So far so unsettling for a Republican arch-hawk in the Bush administration, so you would think.

But where are the predicatable calls of 'hell child' and howls of consternation from the religious right?

Tom Cloyd on the Sleight of Mind blog tries to pre-empt the outrage.

"This child has a problem, however. His mother is homosexual, but that's not the problem. The mistaken view of his mother by a significant number of people in our country - that's the problem

The Christian Newswire did play the game and released a statement in which Peter LaBarbera claims the arrival of the infant as bitttersweet.

"While we celebrate life, we cannot celebrate homosexual parenting -- which involves intentionally denying a child either a mom or a dad."

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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2007/05/24/marys_child_gets_an_easy_ride.html

[aquart]

1. So they must oppose widows and widowers.

What do they propose to do about all the children with one or fewer parents due to the Iraq occupation?

[BurtWorm]

2. He's not Mary's child. He's Dick's grandchild.

[baldguy]

3. There's one rule for the overlords

And a different rule for us peons. Lesbians & gays are routinely denied custody and have their children removed from their care simply because of their sexual orientation.

[Fridays Child]

4. I'd like to know where that picture was shot. Is that what VIP hospital rooms look like?

[shain from kane]

5. He is an Evremonde.