Who cares?
Well, appaently, lots of people. From the NYT article linked above:
Family Pride, a gay rights group, noted that Ms. Cheney’s home state of Virginia does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions to same-sex couples.As if the welfare of children had anything to do with this. On either side.
"The news of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy exemplifies, once again, how the best interests of children are denied when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens are treated unfairly and accorded different and unequal rights and responsibilities than other parents," the group’s executive director, Jennifer Chrisler, said in a statement.
Focus on the Family, an influential Christian group that has provided crucial political support to President Bush, released a statement that criticized child rearing by same-sex couples.
"Mary Cheney’s pregnancy raises the question of what’s best for children," the group’s director of issues analysis, Carrie Gordon Earll, said in a statement. "Just because it’s possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn’t mean it’s the best for the child. Love can’t replace a mom or a dad."
2 comments:
I thought she was a lesbian. How did she get pregnant?
Four possibilities I can see:
Some manner of artificial insemination;
A strictly utilitarian roll in the hay with some guy
She's actually bi and was stepping out on her partner
Immaculate concenption.
You pick, but for my money, I like the last option (given that her name is Mary).
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