I actually paid the New Republic to read Andrew Sullivan's "Mary Cheney: Quite Contrary" and I was with him as he tore apart the conservative war against gays and campaign for hate (and the "take no position" morally bankrupt position), until the last section where he congratulates Laura Bush and Condoleezza Rice for being gay humanitarians.
Then he drove me over the edge when he suggested that Mary Cheney and her partner's family situation might be the "real pioneers of a new [gay marriage/family accepting] world."
Talk about silver bells (thumb screws) and cockleshells (very personal torture)...
I don't think there's a better illustration of the hateful hypocrisy that this administration has administered on the American public than this one.
Their example for us is, "What's okay for us and our families is MORALLY WRONG and ILLEGAL for you (or your relative or neighbor)."
And Andrew Sullivan tells that story, succinctly.
He points out that the REALITY of gay life is undermining the politics of fear that are being used against gays on the right, but then he positions Mary Cheney as an example of a REAL pioneer.
Imagine the press if that had been Rosy O'Donnel getting pregnant, or your superintendant's daughter.
When I first heard that Mary Cheney was pregnant I thought, "Wow, she gets a royal pass on this one."
Mary Cheney is so far inside the protective layers of elitism and this Presidency that I thought (I'm crazy like a fox), "Hmm, I wonder if they actually found a doctor to combine both their eggs [we've done this with female mice, which is a very underreported fact]"
So, other than that possibility, how in the world is Mary Cheney a "real" pioneer, Mr. Sullivan?
I am absolutely sure that there are hundreds of REAL pioneers that have paid more than their fair share of the REAL price for pioneering their gay marriage, their gay parenthood, or simply their gay lifestyle amidst the REAL, LEGAL and "morality"-driven threats that Sullivan's conservative "humanitarians" have looked the other way on whilst they rode that feverishly anti-gay agenda into the White House.
I will certainly point out to my children in every way possible that Mary Cheney was not a pioneer, and that nearly every single person around her fights others for what she wants for her own life. And if Cheney wants that title, she could certainly step up the rhetoric in favor of those that share her ambitions.
The silence is deafening.
Peace.
2 comments:
Very astute post. I often wondered how Mary Cheney could support her father's candidacy and party, whose views, supporters and positions characterize the Veep's own daughter as morally bankrupt.
Meanwhile, you've got frauds, child molesters, liars and secretly gay pastors who visit male prostitutes all feeding the party of "moral values". It's sickening.
First you take on Bill Gnade, and then - even more formidable - Andrew Sullivan. I hope you satisfy your combative appetite before you get to me!
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