Cheney Says Supports Gay-Marriage Ban(Says gay daughters privacy invaded)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20040303/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney

Cheney Says He Supports Gay-Marriage Ban

<snip>Cheney said during the 2000 campaign, and again last month, that he prefers to see states handle the issue of gay marriage. His openly lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, is an aide in the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, but the vice president declined to discuss her.


"One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up," he said. "I really have always considered my private — my daughters' lives private and I think that's the way it ought to remain."


John Aravosis, co-creator of a new Web site that seeks to pressure Mary Cheney into speaking out against a marriage amendment, called the vice president's position hypocritical.


"Now that's rich — the vice president wants to include the details of my private life in the U.S. Constitution yet laments a lack of privacy for his daughter?" Aravosis said. "The vice president can't have it both ways."

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[Cannikin]

1. Same story..different source...posted in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1187816

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2. Cheney's gay daughter privacy invaded, and the American taxpayers are

continuously robbed by Halliburton. So what else is new these days?

[Benhurst]

4. Cheney's daughter had no such privacy left to be invaded. As

I understand it, she worked for the Coors Brewing Company as their lesbian representative to the gay/lesbian community, thereby making her sexual preference a profession, not just a life choice.

And now Dick claims her "privacy" was violated.

What a hypocrite!

[Cannikin]

3. Cheney is a powerful dangerous person....

That's all I had to say....

[Terran]

5. Okay, wait a second...

He "prefers to see the state handle the issue" but he supports the federal constitutional ban on gay marriage? That makes no sense. With a ban in place, there isn't much point in the states "handling" anything, now is there? The whole point of this process is to get the federal government to grant us the same rights that straights have. The states have very little to do with that because they are not the source of the discriminatory laws.

[rman]

6. "private lives intruded" you got it man, that's the problem.

so bud out of our private lives please.