Great WP Op-Ed: Mary Cheney, GOP and discrimination against her own child

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701440.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

It's a Cheney!
Reality Is a Blessed Event

By Ruth Marcus
Friday, December 8, 2006; Page A39

My only regret about Mary Cheney's pregnancy is that it didn't happen earlier -- say, during the 2004 presidential race, when Cheney was working for her father's campaign and his running mate was busy trying to write discrimination against people like her into the Constitution.

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"Unconscionable," said Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America. "Her action repudiates traditional values and sets an appalling example for young people at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation," Crouse wrote on the TownHall.com blog. "Her child will have all the material advantages it will need, but it will still encounter the emotional devastation common to children without fathers."

"I think it's tragic that a child has been conceived with the express purpose of denying it a father," pronounced Robert Knight of the Media Research Center. The couple, he said is seeking to "create a culture that is based on sexual anarchy instead of marriage and family values."

I can understand that people -- especially those who have no personal experience with gay families -- are uncomfortable with the notion of children without a parent of each gender. What I can't understand is using words such as "unconscionable" or "tragic" to describe the choice of two people who love each other and want to create a family together.

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Perhaps Cheney's high-profile pregnancy will help the Republican Party come to grips with those facts of life. If not, though, she's going to have to explain to her child what mommy was doing trying to help a party that doesn't believe in fairness for families like theirs.

I wonder if these right-wing hypocrites are this worried about the children being deprived of fathers by their support for the murdering monkey in the white house and his illegal war-for-profit?

their co-horts against gays) These would not be problems if they'd just STFU and allow gays their rights...Who care if there are more babies being born to single women if they can handle the expenses etc....it's only those in poverty which are a problem and that's another issue...these people are just giant pieces of shit that aren't happy unless they have someone or something to hate...that's what they thrive on.



at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation," Crouse wrote on the TownHall.com blog. "Her child will have all the material advantages it will need, but it will still encounter the emotional devastation common to children without fathers."


The couple, he said is seeking to "create a culture that is based on sexual anarchy instead of marriage and family values."

Sounds a bit harsh, but children can pick up on adults actions. Like, maybe the way he treats the other mommy.