[Vision2020] Cheney's Daughter Pregnant

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It's amazing how quickly parents see reality when one of their beloved 
offspring is found to be gay and enjoying the fruits of a stable, loving, 
same sex, intimate relationship.

W.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Cheney's Daughter Pregnant


> >From today's (December 6, 2006) Spokesman Review -
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>
> Cheney's Daughter Pregnant
>
> WASHINGTON - Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is
> pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" 
> about
> the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.
>
> It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older
> daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state
> before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney
> are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth
> grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said Tuesday night.
>
> Mary Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father during the 2004 re-election
> campaign and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. Poe, 45, 
> a
> former park ranger, is renovating their Great Falls, Va., home.
>
> News of the pregnancy will undoubtedly reignite the debate about gay
> marriage. During the campaign, Mary Cheney was criticized by gay activists
> for not being more publicly supportive of same-sex marriage. Her father 
> said
> people "ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want
> to" but deferred to the president's policy supporting a constitutional
> amendment banning same-sex marriages.
>
> Cheney has described her relationship with Poe - whom she took to last
> year's White House dinner honoring Prince Charles and Camilla - as a
> marriage. The two met in 1988 while playing ice hockey and began dating 
> four
> years later.
>
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>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in
> Albany, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida, and many other campaigns of 
> the
> Civil Rights Movement.  Many of these courageous men and women were 
> fighting
> for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, 
> and
> I salute their contributions."
>
> - Coretta Scott King (March 30, 1998)
>
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