12/06/2006
Mary Cheney Said to be Pregnant
Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary is pregnant, according to a report in the Washington Post:
"Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are 'ecstatic' about the baby, due in late spring, The Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions, quoting an unnamed source close to the couple.There was no formal announcement of either daughter's pregnancy from the vice president's office, but the Post quoted spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride as saying Tuesday night that 'the vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild.'"
So who's the father? "The Post quoted the source close to the family as saying the circumstances of Mary Cheney's pregnancy will remain private."
Of course it will.
And as AmericaBlog notes, Cheney and Poe live in Virginia, which pretty much offers them no legal rights because of the hateful laws it has passed in the last two years: "Those laws may vitiate any legal agreement between the two, period, about anything. The law ensures that Mary's partner has no legal rights whatsoever in their child, or in what happens to Mary (or vice versa), such as if one partner has to go the hospital, the other can't visit. The law may even nullify any wills that Mary and Heather write regarding each other, and it may make it impossible for gay people to go to court to resolve any difference about anything - the courts can't recognize gay unions, so they can't make any decisions that would imply recognition (custody, hospital visitation, wills, etc.) It's beyond ironic that Virginia's new law, one of the most hateful, bigoted laws on the books, is now targeting the vice president's own daughter and soon-to-be new grandchild."
Indeed.
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The father...could it be Satan?
Posted by: Bill | Dec 6, 2006 8:03:57 AM
"The law may even nullify any wills that Mary and Heather write regarding each other"! That is beyond fucked up. I'm amazed at that. You know, until the last couple of years, I thought gay rights were very well protected in the US. Even today, when I say it to my (straight) friends here about the lack of laws protecting gays, they don't believe me; they're shocked at how discriminatory the US is. Ireland might not have civil unions (yet) but at least I'm confident the law will protect me in every other way (like in the workplace).
Posted by: EireKev | Dec 6, 2006 8:04:45 AM
no it may be Clay Aiken!?!?!?
Posted by: TC | Dec 6, 2006 8:25:45 AM
Yikes...Mary Cheney is pregnant!!! I needed some warning here...what a horrible way to start a Wednesday. That woman is reproducing!!! :)
I truly hope this baby will grow up with a sense of decency and self respect that is lacking in his/her parents.
Posted by: Patrick | Dec 6, 2006 8:31:03 AM
I wish them well in their endeavor and hope the child is healthy and happy... I'm a big believer in Karma and this child will need all of the help he/she/it can get!
Posted by: Wayne | Dec 6, 2006 8:32:33 AM
They have so much money that they will probably end up buying any protections to help them and their child out. Sadly, many other gay families do not have the same recourse.
Posted by: James | Dec 6, 2006 8:35:12 AM
....so much money AND well connected. Alan Keyes daughter should have a nice chat with them.
Posted by: Brett | Dec 6, 2006 8:45:34 AM
Satan indeed! It's amazing what some people here think they can pass off as intelligent or clever comments.
Whatever I may think of Mary Cheney, I wish her child the best.
Posted by: HZH | Dec 6, 2006 8:48:08 AM
Laws only apply to those who do not have money. Cheney and the evil off spring will go to the front of the line.
Posted by: patrick nyc | Dec 6, 2006 9:07:08 AM
"I truly hope this baby will grow up with a sense of decency and self respect that is lacking in his/her parents."
Amen.
Posted by: xavier | Dec 6, 2006 9:16:20 AM
One obvious point to be made is that this child is being born out of wedlock. What happened to GOP tenets such as abstinence until marriage and the necessity of two parents united by marriage needed to care for children?
I, also, wonder what the reaction of President Bush was. After all he wanted to write LGBT people out of the constitution and bar couples like Mary and Heather from being legally recognized.
Posted by: Michael | Dec 6, 2006 9:29:13 AM
I hope its stillborn.
Posted by: Crixi Van Cheek | Dec 6, 2006 9:40:43 AM
What happened to GOP tenets such as abstinence until marriage
It was probably by artificial insemination (sorry, that's what they do to animals--I mean to refer to IVF--in vitro fertilization).
On the brighter side for Poe, if she and Cheney break up in Virginia, under Virginia law, she won't have to worry about paying child support.
Posted by: raj | Dec 6, 2006 9:42:42 AM
Maybe it was in vitro, or maybe it was artificial insemination (i.e., a turkey baster), but who cares.
On the one hand I do hope that the child is born healthy and doesn't suffer any karma-related "damage" resulting from the long litany of Cheney family crimes.
However, I am looking forward to the backlash from the moonbat religious right. Another nail in the coffin of the GOP/Fundamentalist cabal?
Posted by: Jonathon | Dec 6, 2006 9:56:21 AM
No Crixi! That is uncalled for. You should not wish misfortune on others, that only shows you to be evil. Fight your enemies with everything you have but do it openly in an acceptable forum and manner. Do not lose your humanity. Karma has a way of balancing out such evil with disastrous results.
Posted by: rudy | Dec 6, 2006 9:56:48 AM
I've seen this movie. Wait it is coming to me...ROSEMARY'S BABY!
Posted by: Blair | Dec 6, 2006 10:16:04 AM
These comment sections really do attract a lot of intolerant, closed-minded people. If the subject of the story is not gay, physically attractive, and an activist for gay rights they get bashed to hell. I don't know where you guys are from but in NYC, you would not survive out the week with such narrow mindedness.
Posted by: Ben | Dec 6, 2006 10:16:38 AM
HZH, don't get your panties in a twist. Of course Satan isn't the father. Satan is the grandfather.
Posted by: Bill | Dec 6, 2006 10:17:24 AM
Rudy, don't lecture me. I have held the hand of a ten year old, as he coughed and wept blood as he died of AIDS. I watched him struggle through this world into the next in a system run by Republican Christians who say that by virtue of that child's minority race, and being born with a virus that he must live below the poverty level all the days he is on this earth. They have designed a system that prevents a child in the US from ever having fair and decent health care. They prevent these children from ever leaving the confines of poverty. They laugh, play golf and proselytize their way of life all the while marginalizing the weakest of the weak. AND, they say that because I am gay, I am unfit to parent this unwanted child. That I MAY NOT make him my ward, that I may not be his guardian and put him on my insurance. The Republican Christians say that it is better to let a poor black child with AIDS suffer and die a bloody, painful little death than it is to allow a gay man to love that child and give him decent care. Republican Christians believe a white stem cell has more worth than a minority child and more rights than a gay adult. And now a rich white lesbian couple will bypass all the laws stacked against the poor unwanted children, and skip past the adoption laws to create their own little white offspring. And on their way to the lab they campaigned to prevent me from saving a dying little boy. Now, I ask you...who is less human??? No one deserves the pain of a dead child more than these hypocritical monsters.
Posted by: Crixi Van Cheek | Dec 6, 2006 10:29:47 AM
I heard that Reichen is the father!
Posted by: Wayne | Dec 6, 2006 10:46:37 AM
Please, do you actually expect that any hospital in VA will DARE to prevent Mary's partner from visiting her or having anything she wants? She won't experience any of the bigotry that exists in that state because she lives in a bubble.
Posted by: David | Dec 6, 2006 10:48:13 AM
I hope that many of you realize how predictable your comments are. Are you aware that you cheapen your own humanity when devalue the life of another because of disagreements you have with that person or her family? Are you also aware that when you do so, you become like the fundamentalist "Christian" right which you, in my view, correctly decry?
I wish anyone beginning a family, and Mary and Heather specifically, well.
Peace
Posted by: KJ | Dec 6, 2006 10:54:35 AM
Crixi, What you did for that child was noble and deeply human. Why would you want to lessen your own humanity by wishing evil on the unborn child of someone who at most is tangentially related to the policies you rightly decry? Vent your frustration and anger but channel it into something that achieves a positive result. Were some ghastly fate to befall Mary's child how would that redress anything your poor child suffered? The bigots are already beginning to reap the harvest of thorns that their hatred has sown. I hope you find peace and that you prevail in your cause(s) but don't wound yourself by dehumanizing your existence/soul/being.
Posted by: rudy | Dec 6, 2006 11:15:17 AM
Rudy, Yours is a kind and tasteful comment. However, I doubt I have the capacity to forgive as mightly as Eli Weisel. But thank you for a glimpse of the better side of human nature.
Posted by: Crixi Van Cheek | Dec 6, 2006 11:25:32 AM
"I don't know where you guys are from but in NYC, you would not survive out the week with such narrow mindedness.
Posted by: Ben | Dec 6, 2006 10:16:38 AM"
You have got to kidding?!?!
NYC has become a beacon of shallow, narrow-minded, intolerance
Posted by: forreal | Dec 6, 2006 11:36:16 AM