Cheney's "Sodomite" Daughter Is Preggers
From WaPo
Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night.
And as Americablog points out, she lives in Virginia, which "pretty much guarantees that Mary's baby is screwed" since the state just passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions. More distrublingly: [From Americablog]
Mary's partner has no legal rights whatsoever in their child, or in what happens to Mary (or vice versa), such as if one partner has to go the hospital, the other can't visit. The law may even nullify any wills that Mary and Heather write regarding each other, and it may make it impossible for gay people to go to court to resolve any difference about anything - the courts can't recognize gay unions, so they can't make any decisions that would imply recognition (custody, hospital visitation, wills, etc.) It's beyond ironic that Virginia's new law, one of the most hateful, bigoted laws on the books, is now targeting the vice president's own daughter and soon-to-be new grandchild.
And does anybody remember Sharon Bottoms, a lesbian who "lost custody of her two-year-old son, Tyler, after her mother filed for custody based on the idea that Sharon, a lesbian, was unfit to be a parent."
Bill McCartney
