Dan Savage Rips Mary Cheney a New One
OMG, I fucking love Dan Savage.
In today’s New York Times Mary Cheney defends her decision to get her lezbo self knocked the fuck up. Like her father, Mary Cheney believes she shouldn’t have to answer for her party’s attacks on same-sex parents.
[...] “This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.”
Nice try, Mary.
Yes, it’s a baby, not a prop. My kid isn’t a prop either, but that never stopped right-wingers from attacking me and my boyfriend over our decision to become parents. The fitness of same-sex couples to parent is very much part of the political debate thanks to the GOP and the Christian bigots that make up its lunatic “base.” You’re a Republican, Mary, you worked on both of your father’s campaigns, and you kept your mouth clamped shut while Karl Rove and George Bush ran around the country attacking gay people, gay parents, and our children in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. It’s a little late to declare the private choices of gays and lesbians unfit for public debate, Mary.
And so long as your party insists on making the fitness of homosexuals to marry or parent-or, hell, exist-a subject of public debate, Mary, your decision to become a parent is germane and very much fit for public discussion and debate. The GOP’s selective embrace of some pregnant dykes-only knocked-up lesbians with powerful connections will be treated with respect-is a disconnect that demands answers. From you, from your father, from your venomous mother, from the idiot president you helped elect. Is that fair? Maybe not. Want to blame someone? Go look in the mirror-and then come out swinging, Mary-for yourself, your partner, and your child.
I know I'm not supposed to c&p more than a paragraph or so from someone else's blog posts or articles, but I just couldn't help myself this time.
Seriously though? I don't know how Mary Cheney, or ANY gay republicans for that matter, are able to live with themselves knowing what their party stands for. I mean, dude, I just don't get it. If someone could explain to me, I'd be most grateful.
Oh, and H/T to AmericaBlog for posting about this first.
In today’s New York Times Mary Cheney defends her decision to get her lezbo self knocked the fuck up. Like her father, Mary Cheney believes she shouldn’t have to answer for her party’s attacks on same-sex parents.
[...] “This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.”
Nice try, Mary.
Yes, it’s a baby, not a prop. My kid isn’t a prop either, but that never stopped right-wingers from attacking me and my boyfriend over our decision to become parents. The fitness of same-sex couples to parent is very much part of the political debate thanks to the GOP and the Christian bigots that make up its lunatic “base.” You’re a Republican, Mary, you worked on both of your father’s campaigns, and you kept your mouth clamped shut while Karl Rove and George Bush ran around the country attacking gay people, gay parents, and our children in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. It’s a little late to declare the private choices of gays and lesbians unfit for public debate, Mary.
And so long as your party insists on making the fitness of homosexuals to marry or parent-or, hell, exist-a subject of public debate, Mary, your decision to become a parent is germane and very much fit for public discussion and debate. The GOP’s selective embrace of some pregnant dykes-only knocked-up lesbians with powerful connections will be treated with respect-is a disconnect that demands answers. From you, from your father, from your venomous mother, from the idiot president you helped elect. Is that fair? Maybe not. Want to blame someone? Go look in the mirror-and then come out swinging, Mary-for yourself, your partner, and your child.
I know I'm not supposed to c&p more than a paragraph or so from someone else's blog posts or articles, but I just couldn't help myself this time.
Seriously though? I don't know how Mary Cheney, or ANY gay republicans for that matter, are able to live with themselves knowing what their party stands for. I mean, dude, I just don't get it. If someone could explain to me, I'd be most grateful.
Oh, and H/T to AmericaBlog for posting about this first.