We're all God's children, Bob. And 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, she's being who she was born as.
John Kerry doesn't address exactly how he knows what she would say. He assumes that all gay and lesbian people claim they are born that way. Without speaking to Mary Cheney on the issue, he is an authority on the reasons for her sexual orientation.
So where is NOW? Shouldn't they be offended that a candidate for the highest office in the land decides to speak for a woman without first consulting with her on her own opinion?
How about PFLAG or other activist organizations for homosexuals? Do they want straight people telling homosexuals what they think? If you listen for their protests, you'll only hear crickets.
Instead of try to calm the controversy, they fan the flames. Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill calls Mary Cheney "fair game." That is, the Democrats will use her personal life to their advantage. Elizabeth Edwards made the gaffe of judging Dick and Lynne Cheney's relationship with their daughter by claiming the felt a "certain degree of shame" about her. Her reasoning seems to be they're Republicans. They obviously don't love their gay daughter.
What a gift from the Democrats. Voters know that parents - Republican or Democrat - love their children. To use a political opponents' children against them is beyond the rules of decency. There will be a price to pay for doing it.
