Anybody out there who knows Mary and reads this blog, please send her this essay that is on Townhall.com.
In a few breezy sentences, Mary Cheney confidently relegates a few thousand years of religious tradition regarding the nature of marriage to an historic footnote and curiosity. According to her, legal formalization of this traditional arrangement would abrogate freedom and be discriminatory.You thought we were trouble, Mary, now you have the right-wing of your own party to deal with. It was easy going on TV and being Miss "Pro Gay Marriage" when you thought John Kerry and John Edwards were the enemy. Well, the family values wing of your own party now says YOU'RE the enemy.
Cheney effortlessly transforms traditional marriage and family from the core institution on which our free society is built into an instrument of oppression.
With little thought, she glosses over the truth that this is not about freedom but about the exchange of one source of authority for our laws and values for another. Will it be the bible or Mary Cheney's youthful passions and impulses?....
By her standards, the inner city is utopia. Give vent to every impulse, legitimize every feeling and, by all means, don't be judgmental.
What Mary Cheney calls oppressive and straight, blacks call white.
It's hard to figure out whether Mary Cheney is simpleminded or just disingenuous.
The big question is, what do you plan to do about it? Or do you only stand up for Heather when Democrats are the problem?
