GUESS WHAT. Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian. Let me repeat it just in case you didn't hear it the first time: Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter.
It's OK, though, because even though he's an evil corporate Republican backing a president who's out to demolish any prospects of gay marriage, I'm sure he still loves her. By the way, his daughter's a lesbian.
This, apparently, is the new Kerry-Edwards campaign strategy: mention Mary Cheney's sexuality continuously and watch bleeding heart liberals and religious zealots alike punch the "Kerry" hole in the presidential ballot.
Only, the plot backfired. John Kerry's condescending comments in the final presidential debate, thinly veiled as compassionate, were truly underhanded, exploitative and just plain mean. Everyone, including the gay community, should be outraged.
Mary Cheney was initially brought up by John Edwards who, responding to a question in the vice-presidential debate about families and homosexuality, announced that "you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter."
"They," of course, are the Cheneys. Edwards' comment, though seemingly meant as a compliment, smacks of condescension and infers that the Cheneys consider their gay daughter a problem that they're "willing to talk about." Yet, Edwards' inclusion of Mary Cheney was at least somewhat relevant to the debate, as the question was specifically about homosexuality and families.
Kerry, however, was not so smooth.
A question at the final presidential debate was whether each candidate believed that homosexuality is a choice. Bush's answer was, "I don't know." Kerry's answer was, "I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was."
Hmm
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