Dan Savage Rips Mary Cheney a New One

[luna_k]

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

Comments

[roguetailkinker]

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've wondered the same thing for years. For that matter, I wonder about poor Republicans too- how can you support any party that that claim people are only poor if they want or deserve to be? The Repugs are so brimming with hate, it shocks me that anyone supports them.

[xiaomi]

I feel bad for Mary really, it's the family thing if you ask me. Other gay republicans have no excuse, but with her... man. Someone's going to need a lot of counseling eventually. My personal opinion, based on everything I've read, is that Cheney is probably for gay rights, if only because of being confronted with a daughter who has refused to hide in the closet. But he feels loyalty to the Party and President (wrongly, if you ask me), and Mary's probably following along as a result...

I have trouble hating her, I think of what I read about families where one of the children entered an interracial relationship, back before Loving, and... wow. Those families get seriously screwed up because all of the societal prejudice. Seriously screwed up.

[fishsanwitt]

Dan Savage *rocks*.

Mary Cheney is a hypocrite - I hope she's *roasted* for this bullshit.

[photosinensis]

You know that the gay Republicans simply hate themselves. They find themselves to be so shameful on account of who they are that they would rather be exterminated.

Others have been simply lied to: they think that the Republican party is one of fiscal conservatism, which has not been the case in a very long time.

[thisficklemob]

100% w0rd. And it's not just that her dad's the Vice President and of an anti-gay party. She can't help that. If she'd been just quietly going about her life and staying out of the spotlight AND out of the political realm, then I could sympathize with her statement. But she got in that game, and she's been playing for Mordor, so she doesn't get to go all, "This is my life!"

It is true, of course, that her baby is a baby and not a political prop. But as the Daily Show keeps pointing out, so are everyone else's kids. "Everyone is somebody's kid, even other people's gays." YES. Thank you.

It's all part of their Republican corporate plutocrat exceptionalism... morals are for other people.

[bandgeek]

Well, I don't claim to understand LGBT Republicans, but I do know a little bit about them. The group within the GOP that organizes itself as the LGBT contingent are the Log Cabin Republicans. The website is probably the best way to see how they represent themselves, although the amount of insane troll logic involved means that researchers may never truly get what they're doing.

Another interesting bit is the chapter in David Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable, called "Beat Me, Daddy." Here's what one reviewer says about it (I'm regretting that I don't have my own copy of it here in Austria):

Rakoff can’t help being funny, but he is not afraid to tackle messy political topics as well. In “Beat Me, Daddy,” he recounts his investigation into the secret world of the Log Cabin Republicans, the largest organization of gay and lesbian GOP members. As a gay man, Rakoff is mystified as to why the Log Cabin leaders actively support a political party that is “hellbent” on their “eradication” and on “legislating away” their rights. “It seems