Dan Savage doesn’t appear ready to cut Mary Cheney any slack. He just rips into her.
In today’s New York Times Mary Cheney defends her decision to get her lezbo self knocked the fuck up. Like her father, Mary Cheney believes she shouldn’t have to answer for her party’s attacks on same-sex parents.
“When Heather and I decided to have a baby, I knew it wasn’t going to be the most popular decision,” Ms. Cheney said, referring to her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe. She then gestured to her middle—any bulge disguised by a boxy jacket—and asserted: “This is a baby. This is a
blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.”Nice try, Mary.
Yes, it’s a baby, not a prop. My kid isn’t a prop either, but that never stopped right-wingers from attacking me and my boyfriend over our decision to become parents. The fitness of same-sex couples to parent is very much part of the political debate thanks to the GOP and the Christian bigots that make up its lunatic “base.” You’re a Republican, Mary, you worked on both of your father’s campaigns, and you kept your mouth clamped shut while Karl Rove and George Bush ran around the country attacking gay people, gay parents, and our children in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. It’s a little late to declare the private choices of gays and lesbians unfit for public debate, Mary.
I’m still inclined to leave the daughters out of things. But I’m not trying to raise a child with another man so my opinion doesn’t matter a whole lot. As for Rove and Bush, a good punishment would be to make them read Savage’s sex column every week. You don’t want to get on the wrong side of Dan Savage. The former senator from Pennsylvania found that out the hard way.