Cheney Says He Supports Gay Marriage Ban

I find this absolutely reprehensible:

Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he supports
President Bush's call for a federal constitutional amendment banning
same-sex marriages, even though one of his daughters is gay and he has
said in the past the issue should be left to the states.
"The president's taken the clear position that he supports a
constitutional amendment," Cheney said in an interview with MSNBC. "I
support him."
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."

His own daughter
is a lesbian, for chrissakes. How could you do something like that to
your own kid? It's just disgusting. What an awful human being.
But perhaps I'm being too harsh. Maybe he's just gone off his meds or
something.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 2, 2004 at 04:09 PM | Permalink