LAT: A pregnant pause in the right wing

[DeepModem Mom]

A pregnant pause in right wing
Social conservatives remain silent or temper their criticism about news that Cheney's gay daughter is expecting.
By Johanna Neuman, Times Staff Writer
December 7, 2006

WASHINGTON — No Republican in Washington is more beloved by social conservatives than Vice President Dick Cheney, who with his wife, Lynne, has backed and breathed every issue dear to them for six tumultuous years.

News that Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, is pregnant has therefore touched a nerve, as advocates for conservative values struggle to reconcile their loyalty to the Cheneys with their visceral opposition to same-sex relationships — and particularly to raising a child without a father.

"Not only is she doing a disservice to her child, she's voiding all the effort her father put into the Bush administration," said Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank of Concerned Women for America. Asked why the administration downplayed the news, she added, "This is Cheney's daughter; anything they say will make the situation worse."...

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Some groups that oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoptions — such as the Family Research Council and the Eagle Forum — declined to comment. But others were critical, albeit with a delicate touch not always seen in the political wars over gay issues.

"Children deserve the very best we can offer, and gay adoption — by definition — intentionally denies children either a mother or a father," said Carrie Gordon Earll, an analyst for Focus on the Family, the Colorado-based family advocacy ministry. "Adoption laws should put the needs of children first, above the desires of adults."...

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-baby7dec07,1,6139729.story

[Deep13]

1. Damn, I hate when reality gets in the way of my preconceptions!

x(

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Right on!

I do believe you've summed it up in one sentence.

[Deep13]

8. That's just because reality has a liberal bias.

:-)

[Straight Shooter]

2. Imagine the outrage if Chelsea were gay, pregnant, and had a gay lifemate.

Nonstop 24/7 damnation and condemnation from the right wing.

But, ooops, it's Cheney's daughter. Everyone, shhhhhh, let's all tippy-toe. :eyes:

Congratulations to you, Mary. I hope you turn some attitudes around.

[Demeter]

3. Beverly Haye Institute? For the Morally Misguided or Criminally Insane?

The Concerned Women of America should grow up.

[shain from kane]

5. The story says LaHaye, rather than Haye. Is this organization related

to that religious nut that was involved in those "Left Behind" books?

[BillE]

7. Beverly LaHaye is the wife of Tim LaHaye,

who is co-author of the "Left Behind Series".

[Sequoia]

6. Adoption laws should put the needs of children first, above the desires of adults."...

And break the hearts of birth mothers and gay partners forever after. Bitch. Mary, I hope you have the biggest healthiest happiest baby ever! I remember on ER when the gay doctor's wife died and the wife's family wouldn't give the baby back to the doctor and she had to go to court. It was very sad because it just hit a nerve because moralistic jerks love denying women and gays their right to have a family too.