Cheney Backs Gay Marriage

Yeah, and Obama’s also against abortion too!

This is Major. One by one they will all come around. Its time to be on the right side of History!

Robert: I agree. If he didn’t have a gay daughter he very well might be against gay marriage. That is a pattern we see over and over with conservatives. If they have a gay child or gay sibling, it completely changes how they view gay issues and how they think gays should be treated. Gays aren’t the immoral, unpleasant, subhuman monsters who deserve to be treated like second-class citizens. They’re just people trying to make their way in the world like everyone else.

Yeah, Robert. Seeing the positives (people who love other people, happy families) and the negatives (discrimination, being condemned, and pain) up close and personal can change people’s minds. It is one thing to rail about people you don’t know, but to tell your own son or daughter that you think they deserve for their love to cause them pain? Only a cruel, selfish parent would do that.

He was against gay marriage before he was for it?????? You people are way to funny…and Obama has always been against gay marriage, so what…..

Robert, I echo your comments.

If freedom is for everyone, then, why hate crime laws that seek to make it a criminal offense to criticize homosexuality? Apparently, Cheney wants freedom for homosexuals and liberals, but not for his fellow conservatives, which makes absolutely no sense at all!!!!!

No! to gay marraige and lifestyle.

P, In that case all marriarges that do not produce offspring should be banned. Any sterile or elderly couples should also be denied the right to Marry. You can’t have it both ways. Either everyone should be allowed to get married, or no one should. Seperate but ‘equal’ doesn’t seem to work very well, ie different water fountains, sitting at the back of the bus, not being able to vote, etc etc. Besides what religion tells you, state 1 reason as to why gay people shouldn’t have the same right to be married. They’re human too, right? Do they not bleed? Do they not weep? Gay people are just like everyone else and deserve the same rights and protections.

every one is entitled to equal protection under the laws of the United States. Marriage is one of those rights.

Throwing hate Cheney’s way when Obama has stated that he is against gay marriage and the last time I looked he is currently in office….not Cheney.

JR | Jun 1, 2009 4:35:44 PM—and will Cheney be forced to apologize to Limbaugh?

I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. ========================================
….and the rest of society has the freedom to legislate and discriminate against those unions….That is what Cheny really meant….

LOL, why id being in support of Gay Marriage make Cheney “to the left of President Obama”. This is a guy who owns a military supply company and is amongst the most hawkish in Washington.
Just goes to show how stupid the whole “left vs. right” invention of the media is. Politics is about loads of unrelated issues. Gay marriage has absolutely no relation to foreign policy whatsoever. Pretending supporting one foreign policy view means you should support another social policy view is ridiculous.

Personally I don’t care for either Chenny or Limbaugh.Maybe they can go hunting together this winter I know the hunting is good in Wyoming.

What other ex-VP keeps standing in the wings yapping his gums about policy? Help me out here, I cant remember any.
Cheney needs to go duck hunting. Who knows, he might get lucky and actually hit one….duck, that is. I wish Rush would go with him.

“If he had a son who wanted to have two wives would he be in favor of that too?” Probably so…since most heterosexual men I know have had a second wife after they divorced their first one. That’s why they’re so hot on the “sanctity” of marriage.

Who cares what Cheney has to say about anything. He is an old gomer with a bad legacy.

Cheney actually says something that makes sense… he’s still going to hell anyway. You can’t make up for a million dead people.

In the name of progress, we should replace the word marriage with the civil union in all government documents. It should solely represent the contractual relationship between two or more entities that receives all rights that were previously allocated to the marriage contract. We need to strip away any restriction on gender, race, age, or quantity otherwise you are being a hate monger and discriminatory. “Marriages” would then be performed within your religious institution of choice with their bylaws dictating what constitutes a marriage for them. If its the Catholic church, then it’s a man and woman. If it’s the Mormon fundamentalist church, then it allows polygamy. If it’s the Evangelical Lutheran Church, then it’s allows same sex marriage.

Let’s see now, it’s okay if Cheney mentions he has a gay daughter publicly when speaking about gay issues, but if someone else mentions it publicly (especially while running for POTUS) it’s outrageous, out of bounds and disgusting and the GOP gets it’s pantyhose all knotted up.

It’s the kinder, gentler Darth Cheney. Under a Cheney presidency there would be a little wedding chapel for gay marriages at Gitmo right next to the waterboarding rooms.

How can a Vice President be quiet for 8 years and all of a sudden wants to talk. And people say they like this guy. I’m not a democrat or a republican, but this guy is an idiot. He didn’t stand up and talk when he was in office and its time for him to shut up.

What this shows is that Cheney is willing to support something when it affects him personally.
But, he’s willing to compromise whatever integrity he had left for political gain.
He allowed his support for his own daughter to take a backseat to manipulating Bush into getting us involved in a profit-generating war for himself and his cronies.

I find it ironic that Cheney has begun to change his tune. His daughter must have encountered some sort of discrimination or controversy. But what I find most ironic in the whole scheme of things is that straight people cannot seem to hold on to their own marriages. 50% of marriages fail. And they think they are the authority and expert on the matter. When in fact, nothing could be farther from the truth, religious or otherwise. If heteros could make the divorce rate shrink then that would give them some ground on which to make a case. They are just afraid that we can do “marriage” better than they can, which is probably true. We do a lot of things better, prettier, more elegant, and more glamorous.
Another way to look at this issue is to see how much more the economy would be stimulated if we were allowed to spend the money on getting married. There are proven studies that show significant economic advantages to states and the federal government if gay marriage were legalized.
Nevertheless, there is no one and I mean no one who can or should tell me who I can or cannot marry. God is my judge and I rather like it that way. Seek your own soul’s salvation before trying to infringe upon mine.

I can’t believe anybody would call Cheney very American.

Alright, this is going to be short and I will not check on this. Meaning if you reply to it I won’t answer. I used to post on here, but I got booted for posting against the POTUS. I am posting on here to say if you want to find a place where you can post without being booted for posting against a particular political figure .

So Chaney is supporting gay marriage for the reason of “Freedom”. Well Chaney is not a good messenger for promoting freedom around the world. Most of the world hated us in large part because him and his rethoric and his approach of bomb now and be concerned about the aftermath later. He manipulates the American public w his sensational, fear-mongering rhetoric, twists and fabricates things and the denials of the situation on the ground. If Chaney had his way even more we’d be at war in Iran and in N Korea now as well and it would be too much for us to handle. He’s trigger happy w military power and acts as if there’s a purely military solutions to everything all the while sell us out to the big oil and miltary industrial complex special interests and essentially telling people to burn oil like it’s as abundant as water… Bomb people to keep it flowing and in the mean time the US still uses as much oil as ever. Very imbalanced and makes American look like a selfish/wasteful empire and breeds resentment around the world along w our sleezy-permiscuous Hollywood/MTV pop culture. Now the man who’s message is essentially we’ll bomb you into freedom and democracy has a new message for the developing world to promote freedom… Have freedom and democracy in your country so you too can have “gay marriage”… read: Freedom without responsibility or standards. I’m sure that will play well among the general population in Pakistan and around developing world. He sends a message of a morally corrupt, greedy, wasteful America that’s abusive & bullying with it’s power.

you know obama is for gay rights. he just can’t say it.
just like stem cell research, it’s not about ideology, it’s about fact.
fact is that equal rights are for everyone, pursuit of happiness.

I don’t understand the hang up everyone has with the word “marriage”. One side says they want to be married like everyone else. The other says no way BUT you can have “civil unions” which permit the same rights as married hetero sexual couples. I would love for side A to explain why that isn’t good enough and for side B to explain the difference…….
are you both so hung up on one word that you can’t figure out you’re on the same side and solved the problem?

Lex, the fact is they (man and woman) naturally can have off-spring! This is not having it both ways this is the way it has been and this the way it will be no matter. It is sad that people want to force something to happen that naturally does not.
Man and man cannot produce children neither can woman and woman.
If a man and woman could have had children in a normal sense but find themselves unable to does not change the natural FACT that they could. YOU can’t make a rock and an apple produce an orange naturally. So gay marriage is NOT natural and can not produce natural off spring! Marriage is only for a man and a woman. All othe arrangment are done legally through the courts. NOT CALL marriages!

From a legal point of view, gays as well as polygamists should be able to wed.However, marriage should retain it’s historical meaning.The gay movement has went from equal rights to trying to redefine marriage.Every other movement has been able to have it’s own points of idenification.Most forms lists partner as the same as a husband or wife.What this movement is saying that there should not be listed genders ,that we should have only check human.Until a man can check woman ,he is denied a freedom because he feels like a woman. If this movement would move on,maybe those of marriage would like to be united under the same called celebration.

Cheny appears to be getting ready to run for president. What a joke. He just lost the republican vote. What a moron.

Notice in the quote he said,”union”, not marriage. I knew I liked him for some reason.

I just cannot understand how people who preach love, forgiveness, justice and so many good things–turn this issue into something hateful, unforgiving, and want the law to reflect their opinions. How about live and let live–I can’t believe I’m saying this, for the first time I can remember I agree with Cheney about something.
First time for everything I guess.