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Happy Thanksgiving in the Cheney Home!

Tricky

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Gosh it's going to be a happy time in the Cheney family, but better let somebody else carve the turkey besides Dick's daughters, Liz and Mary. Seems there is a minor family squabble. You see, Mary is gay and married to a woman, while Liz is campaigning to let gay marriage be illegal in some states. It appears that Mary is not to happy with Liz pandering toward homophobes in her run for Wyoming Senator. And now, their little family spat has gone public.
Liz Cheney said:
"I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree," Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday."
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Oh right. A simple disagreement as to whether she has the right to be married to the person she loves. No big deal. But then that beatch Mary posts on Facebook:
Mary Cheney said:
"Liz – this isn't just an issue on which we disagree – you're just wrong – and on the wrong side of history,"
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How judgmental of her.

Now Mary's spouse has butted into the argument:
Heather Poe said:
I was watching my sister-in-law on Fox News Sunday (yes Liz, in fifteen states and the District of Columbia you are my sister-in-law) and was very disappointed to hear her say "I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage."

Liz has been a guest in our home, has spent time and shared holidays with our children, and when Mary and I got married in 2012 – she didn't hesitate to tell us how happy she was for us.

To have her now say she doesn't support our right to marry is offensive to say the least.

I can't help but wonder how Liz would feel if as she moved from state to state, she discovered that her family was protected in one but not the other.

I always thought freedom meant freedom for EVERYONE.
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Well, I'm sure it's nothing and everybody will be fine before it's time to serve the pumpkin pie.
 
Good. This needs to be aired out by high-profile folks. Pandering for the votes of bigots while pretending to family support is reprehensible and the definition of two-faced.
 
Liz Cheney said:
"I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage."
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The "traditional definition" of marriage excludes inter-racial marriage, so if I were you, Liz, I wouldn't be bragging about beliefs in tradition definitions.
 
Ladewig said:
The "traditional definition" of marriage excludes inter-racial marriage, so if I were you, Liz, I wouldn't be bragging about beliefs in tradition definitions.
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I'm not sure what you're implying. Philip J. Perry doesn't appear to be a different race.
 
ehcks said:
I'm not sure what you're implying. Philip J. Perry doesn't appear to be a different race.
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I think he just means that being against inter-racial marriage is now considered horribly bigoted by a vast majority of the people, as will being against gay marriage in the future. That's what Mary meant when she said Liz was "on the wrong side of history."
 
Tricky said:
I think he just means that being against inter-racial marriage is now considered horribly bigoted, as will being against gay marriage in the future. That's what Mary meant when she said Liz was "on the wrong side of history."
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Ah, I was just hoping it was more complicated than that.
 
I take a biblical view and as such thinl women shouldn't be speaking in public like this. Have their husbands no control over these sisters?
 
So, sister gets on with sister until one sister decides to run for office and is told by her party or backers that she needs to come down hard on gay marriage? Is that where we are?

Morals? Principles? Loyalty? All these things one must discard before being elected, apparently...
 
3point14 said:
So, sister gets on with sister until one sister decides to run for office and is told by her party or backers that she needs to come down hard on gay marriage? Is that where we are?

Morals? Principles? Loyalty? All these things one must discard before being elected, apparently...
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To be fair, we really don't know how well they got along. Family issues tend to stay in the family. Liz had her hand forced by her opponant, who is even farther right than her, supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Liz took the slightly more moderate position of "let the states decide". It was the "I support traditional marriage" statement that got Mary's dander up, as well it should, even though technically, Liz didn't say, "I support only traditional marriage." Hell, maybe she supports traditional marrige and interspecies marriage, but just omitted that last part. But I'm thinking not.
 
You'd think if Barack Obama could change his mind on gay marriage and come around to the right side, then it shouldn't be a big deal for Liz Cheney.
 
3point14 said:
So, sister gets on with sister until one sister decides to run for office and is told by her party or backers that she needs to come down hard on gay marriage? Is that where we are?

Morals? Principles? Loyalty? All these things one must discard before being elected, apparently...
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Taking daddy's advice on principles:
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
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ravdin said:
You'd think if Barack Obama could change his mind on gay marriage and come around to the right side, then it shouldn't be a big deal for Liz Cheney.
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And it probably won't be after she gets elected. Until that point, she feels the need to pander to the bigots.
 
ravdin said:
You'd think if Barack Obama could change his mind on gay marriage and come around to the right side, then it shouldn't be a big deal for Liz Cheney.
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Yeah, but she's running for office in Wyoming, where they don't believe in evolution ;)
 
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