Dick Cheney
American Vice President Dick Cheney is celebrating the birth of a grandson born to his lesbian daughter.
It is the first such event in Cheney's Republican Party, which is decidedly anti-same sex marriages.
A photograph released by the White House showed Cheney and his wife holding the baby.
Daughter Mary Cheney delivered the child weighing a little over eight pounds on Wednesday.
It is her first child which she decided to raise with Heather Poe, her female partner for 15 years.
The relatioship has been criticised in conservative circles. Mary Cheney was her father's aide during the presidential campaign in 2004.
Mary Cheney, unwed lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, has given birth to a son, Samuel David Cheney. This beautiful child of God is undoubtedly a wonderful blessing to Ms. Cheney and to his two doting grandparents. This precious new life should be celebrated. But the conditions under which Ms. Cheney has chosen to bring this child into the world are to be condemned.
Although circumstances don't always allow child rearing to occur within God's natural design for the family (which includes both a mother and a father), Ms. Cheney has very sadly and selfishly made the conscious choice to deny her child a natural family environment. She has intentionally deprived him of his other parent – his father. Consequently, this child will be purposely raised without the unique loving male role model and authority figure that only a father can represent. Studies show that by far, the best familial environment for child rearing includes both a mother and a father.
Ms. Cheney apparently intends to have a woman by the name of Heather Poe, whom she has identified as her lesbian "partner," assist in the rearing of her son; but unfortunately, Ms. Poe can never replace little Samuel David's other parent – his dad. One wonders if Ms. Cheney has ever contemplated what her childhood may have been like if she had been denied her own father.
Fox News Channel, which in the past has at least made an effort to avoid liberal bias and political correctness in its reporting, has covered the story with the PC caption: "Dick Cheney's daughter & lesbian partner give birth to boy." This begs the question: How is it that Ms. Cheney's lesbian partner has "[given] birth to a boy"? It is a biological impossibility for a homosexual "couple" to conceive a child without the assistance of a third party who is a member of the opposite sex. Yes, due to infertility natural male-female couples sometimes have to employ similar assistance, but there is no comparison.
Opposite-sex couples that experience problems with infertility can at least conceivably have children. It is a physical impossibility for a homosexual couple to do so. To create the artificial scenario under which homosexuals can have a child, the natural reproductive process must still occur, but it must occur outside of the same-sex "relationship," which always excludes at least one of the "partners." The process must take place under very artificial circumstances well outside the bounds of God's clearly ordained family construct.
Mary Cheney – who is in a very high-profile position because of who her father is – has been blessed with a platform upon which she has the potential to accomplish so much good. Unfortunately, in this case she has chosen to use that platform in a manner that only serves to chip away at one of the principal God-given cornerstones of a healthy society – the natural family.
Mary Cheney gave birth Wednesday to perhaps the most anticipated baby in contemporary U.S. politics -- her first child, Samuel David Cheney, whom she will raise with her longtime lesbian partner Heather Poe.
The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy is the sixth grandchild for Dick Cheney. The vice president and his wife Lynne, both beaming, posed for a photo with the baby just hours after his 9:46 a.m. birth at Washington's Sibley Hospital.
And that, it seems, will be that for now in terms of public comment from the family about the baby who launched a lively debate when Mary Cheney, 38, first discussed her pregnancy in December.
Some gay activists have chastised the AOL executive for not being a stronger advocate for same-sex marriage, while some social conservatives have decried the trend of gay couples raising children. But the Cheneys have avoided stepping into a debate about the debate. The veep became testy when CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked him about it in a January interview.
At an NYC forum sponsored by Glamour magazine last winter, Mary Cheney responded to questions saying: "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 by people on either side of an issue. It is my child." But she also went on to declare that "every piece of remotely responsible research" had demonstrated "no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents."
Cheney and Poe, a former park ranger, have been together for 15 years and live in Great Falls, Va. And no, there's no more word on how the pregnancy came about.
It is the first such event in Cheney's Republican Party, which is decidedly anti-same sex marriages.
A photograph released by the White House showed Cheney and his wife holding the baby.
Daughter Mary Cheney delivered the child weighing a little over eight pounds on Wednesday.
It is her first child which she decided to raise with Heather Poe, her female partner for 15 years.
The relatioship has been criticised in conservative circles. Mary Cheney was her father's aide during the presidential campaign in 2004.
Mary Cheney, unwed lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, has given birth to a son, Samuel David Cheney. This beautiful child of God is undoubtedly a wonderful blessing to Ms. Cheney and to his two doting grandparents. This precious new life should be celebrated. But the conditions under which Ms. Cheney has chosen to bring this child into the world are to be condemned.
Although circumstances don't always allow child rearing to occur within God's natural design for the family (which includes both a mother and a father), Ms. Cheney has very sadly and selfishly made the conscious choice to deny her child a natural family environment. She has intentionally deprived him of his other parent – his father. Consequently, this child will be purposely raised without the unique loving male role model and authority figure that only a father can represent. Studies show that by far, the best familial environment for child rearing includes both a mother and a father.
Ms. Cheney apparently intends to have a woman by the name of Heather Poe, whom she has identified as her lesbian "partner," assist in the rearing of her son; but unfortunately, Ms. Poe can never replace little Samuel David's other parent – his dad. One wonders if Ms. Cheney has ever contemplated what her childhood may have been like if she had been denied her own father.
Fox News Channel, which in the past has at least made an effort to avoid liberal bias and political correctness in its reporting, has covered the story with the PC caption: "Dick Cheney's daughter & lesbian partner give birth to boy." This begs the question: How is it that Ms. Cheney's lesbian partner has "[given] birth to a boy"? It is a biological impossibility for a homosexual "couple" to conceive a child without the assistance of a third party who is a member of the opposite sex. Yes, due to infertility natural male-female couples sometimes have to employ similar assistance, but there is no comparison.
Opposite-sex couples that experience problems with infertility can at least conceivably have children. It is a physical impossibility for a homosexual couple to do so. To create the artificial scenario under which homosexuals can have a child, the natural reproductive process must still occur, but it must occur outside of the same-sex "relationship," which always excludes at least one of the "partners." The process must take place under very artificial circumstances well outside the bounds of God's clearly ordained family construct.
Mary Cheney – who is in a very high-profile position because of who her father is – has been blessed with a platform upon which she has the potential to accomplish so much good. Unfortunately, in this case she has chosen to use that platform in a manner that only serves to chip away at one of the principal God-given cornerstones of a healthy society – the natural family.
Mary Cheney gave birth Wednesday to perhaps the most anticipated baby in contemporary U.S. politics -- her first child, Samuel David Cheney, whom she will raise with her longtime lesbian partner Heather Poe.
The 8-pound, 6-ounce boy is the sixth grandchild for Dick Cheney. The vice president and his wife Lynne, both beaming, posed for a photo with the baby just hours after his 9:46 a.m. birth at Washington's Sibley Hospital.
And that, it seems, will be that for now in terms of public comment from the family about the baby who launched a lively debate when Mary Cheney, 38, first discussed her pregnancy in December.
Some gay activists have chastised the AOL executive for not being a stronger advocate for same-sex marriage, while some social conservatives have decried the trend of gay couples raising children. But the Cheneys have avoided stepping into a debate about the debate. The veep became testy when CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked him about it in a January interview.
At an NYC forum sponsored by Glamour magazine last winter, Mary Cheney responded to questions saying: "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 by people on either side of an issue. It is my child." But she also went on to declare that "every piece of remotely responsible research" had demonstrated "no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents."
Cheney and Poe, a former park ranger, have been together for 15 years and live in Great Falls, Va. And no, there's no more word on how the pregnancy came about.
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