Mary and Heather were on stage last night

I didn't mention it last night, but Dick Cheney's gay daughter Mary and her lover/partner/girlfriend/whatever Heather Poe were on stage last night with the entire family after the debate. Heather was the woman with the short dark hair. It was a very interesting moment, dare I say 'historic.' Heather is the woman on the far left of the photo up top, Mary is on the far right (how appropriate).

I don't give the Cheney family many kudos for anything gay-related. They sold us out. Mary sold out her girlfriend, her community and herself. Her parents sold their own kid out. And now they want us to love them because they're not afraid to bring Mary's girlfriend - the one she and her father are helping the president vilify - on stage. I'd rather have Mary and Heather NOT on stage and NOT supporting people who want to make them second-class citizens.

Having said that, it's still a historic evening when a religious-right endorsed VP brings his dyke daughter and her life-partner on stage, proudly, at the end of a vice presidential debate. Mary Cheney, for all of her sell-out-ness, is a liability to the religious right's message of intolerance. The VP can't openly embrace his gay daughter and her lover during the debate, and onstage after, without lots of the public rethinking their views on gay issues, even just a little.