V.P. Dick Cheney's Lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, is pregnant and the Christian Right is having a cow! I'm no fan of Uncle Tom Republican Mary Cheney, but it will be interesting to see how the public will respond to the reality of gay and lesbian couples having children--with no civil rights as parents! Since Mary and her partner cannot get married, thanks to her Dad and the Republican Party, they will lack many of the basic rights that married parents have. Maybe that will wake up "middle America" and the rational wing of the Republican party. We already know the reaction from the Religious Right: Concerned Women for America call the decision of Mary Cheney to have an out of wedlock baby "unconscionable," and Focus on the Family belittled the love of lesbian mothers for a baby as less than what a mother and father could provide... blah blah.
While Mary Cheney's book (Now It's My Turn) was a big flop, selling less than 10,000 copies last I heard (the market for repressed Republican lesbians must be very small indeed), maybe the socio-political obstacles she and her partner will face as parents will shed some light on why gays and lesbians MUST be allowed to legally marry!
DSA Growing Strong!
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We would hope so but most likely the only thing that will happen is the right wing will sieze upon it, draw upon the point that she had it ought of wedlock, use that as evidence that gays simply CAN'T be right, point out that she had a child as a lesbian, and probably use that to say maybe they can change us. I don't mean to be pestimistic, but I think, from a civil rights perspective, this was beyond irrisponsible and will cripple the gay movement even further than it has been. I long for the 70s-80s in some ways; we at least were stronger in our demands. Now, it seems we're mostly complacent. But now I'm rambling. Forgive me.
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