Ok, this is completely screwing up my untarnished vision of Dick Cheney as Darth Vader (you know, Cheney behind the scenes; manipulating the Office of Legal Council lawyers in 2002; helping draw up torture memos; personally overseeing CIA waterboarding at Guantanamo....)
Now Cheney is appearing... sort of soft and fuzzy... almost human. Dammit (actually he's said this before -- maybe it's a clever ploy of Cheney's to "soften up" his left-wing critics?). Great. So now Cheney is slightly to the left of Obama on gay marriage.
He is blatanly manipulating the gay community's heartstrings! It's a calculated trick to curry favor! haha -- Or, at the very least, as Nick8 would say, it's another example of the dominoes falling....
From Huffington Post:
Cheney has made similar arguments in support of gay marriage in the past, including during the run-up to the 2004 election. But his current comments come at a moment when the Republican Party and conservative movement is increasingly split on the issue. Bush recount lawyer Ted Olsen and John McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt have both argued in favor of gay marriage. The religious right, as expected, remains opposed.
Caught up in the debate is the Obama administration. The president has said he supports civil unions for gay couples but that he remains committed to marriage being between and man and woman. His press department has been completely quiet about the recent California Supreme Court case upholding a ban on gay marriage in the state -- something that, it seems, Cheney would object to in spirit if not law.
YouTube - Dick Cheney on Same-Sex Marriage
Now Cheney is appearing... sort of soft and fuzzy... almost human. Dammit (actually he's said this before -- maybe it's a clever ploy of Cheney's to "soften up" his left-wing critics?). Great. So now Cheney is slightly to the left of Obama on gay marriage.
"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former VP. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish."
He is blatanly manipulating the gay community's heartstrings! It's a calculated trick to curry favor! haha -- Or, at the very least, as Nick8 would say, it's another example of the dominoes falling....
From Huffington Post:
Cheney has made similar arguments in support of gay marriage in the past, including during the run-up to the 2004 election. But his current comments come at a moment when the Republican Party and conservative movement is increasingly split on the issue. Bush recount lawyer Ted Olsen and John McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt have both argued in favor of gay marriage. The religious right, as expected, remains opposed.
Caught up in the debate is the Obama administration. The president has said he supports civil unions for gay couples but that he remains committed to marriage being between and man and woman. His press department has been completely quiet about the recent California Supreme Court case upholding a ban on gay marriage in the state -- something that, it seems, Cheney would object to in spirit if not law.
YouTube - Dick Cheney on Same-Sex Marriage