Dick Cheney fends his silence on gay marriage 2000 - POLITICO

Contents:

• CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• HIGH-PROFILE POLICIANS WHO CHANGED THEIR POSNS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• DICK CHENEY DGHTERS LIZ AND MARY GAY MARRIAGE SPAT
• DICK CHENEY DEFENDS DGHTER LIZ GAY MARRIAGE FAY FD
• LIZ CHENEY SAYS ‘I WAS WRONG’ TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• DICK CHENEY ACTIVELY SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE ( NON-ELECTN YEARS)
• ADAM MCKAY: I LIKE TO THK ‘VICE’ HAD SOMETHG TO DO WH LIZ CHENEY SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE
• CHENEY PARENTS FEND LIZ CHENEY GAY MARRIAGE FD WH SISTER
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• LIZ CHENEY, WHO SOLD OUT GAY SISTER, NOW OUT OF WYOMG SENATE RACE

CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Vice Print Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary is a lbian, drew cricism om both proponents and fo of gay marriage Tuday after he distanced himself om Print Bh’s ll for a nstutnal amendment to ban same-sex a mpaign rally this Mississippi River town, Cheney spoke supportively about gay relatnships, sayg “eedom means eedom for everyone, ” when asked about his stand on gay marriage. “Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so ’s an issue our fay is very faiar wh, ” Cheney told an dience that clud his dghter. The stat have ma that fundamental cisn of what nstut a marriage, ” he backs a nstutnal amendment prohibg gay marriage, a move Cheney says was prompted by var judicial lgs, cludg the actn Massachetts that ma gay marriage legal.

”Steven Fisher, spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay and lbian advocy group, said Cheney’s remarks show a stark difference wh Bh’s efforts “to put discrimatn the Constutn. The admistratn has been g gay Amerins to drive a wedge to the electorate.

THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER

There are lns of Amerin fai who have gay fay members and iends, who are offend by the print’s e of discrimatn, ” Fisher month, Lynne Cheney said stat should have the fal say over the legal stat of personal relatnships, a ment that me jt days before the Senate failed to back the said the amendment did not have the vot to pass, but he also said the feral Defense of Marriage Act, which Print Clton signed to law 1996, may be enough. She held a public role as her father’s assistant the 2000 mpaign and helped the GOP rec gay voters durg the 2002 midterm the 2000 mpaign, vice printial ndidate Cheney took the posn that stat should ci legal issu about personal relatnships and that people should be ee to enter relatnships of their choosg.

The Democratic ndidat also oppose gay marriage, but fend a gay uple’s rights to the same legal protectns as those nferred marriage.

HIGH-PROFILE POLICIANS WHO CHANGED THEIR POSNS ON GAY MARRIAGE

While a junr high school, Mary me out to her fay as gay.

Her parents rpond wh affirmatns, though her mother said she was wary of a future ma potentially harr by the world's homophobia.

Long before Liz entered the polil arena herself, where she ultimately renounced gay marriage, the vice print seemed to have mastered a tricky balancg act. A leadg Republin at a time when the party was mpaigng on forbiddg gay marriage, he voiced support for Mary, who was then a long-term relatnship wh her later wife, Heather Poe.

DICK CHENEY DGHTERS LIZ AND MARY GAY MARRIAGE SPAT

"Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so 's an issue our fay is very faiar wh, " he explaed to supporters at a mpaign rally Iowa, addg, "Wh the rpect to the qutn of relatnships, my general view is eedom means eedom for everyone.

A hopeful for the Republin nomatn a eply red part of the untry, Liz began to receive angry msag and TV attack ads that acced her of "aggrsively promot[g] gay marriage, " Poli reported. "I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage, " she said. Her sister, who is gay, wrote onle at the time that the cisn put her “on the wrong si of history.

” Mary Cheney, her sister who is gay and married wh children, wrote onle at the time that Liz was “on the wrong si of history. Cheney’s father, beme an unlikely advote for gay rights when he stated 2004 that he supported Mary, and that “eedom means eedom for everyone.

DICK CHENEY DEFENDS DGHTER LIZ GAY MARRIAGE FAY FD

“I thk is hard to hold hate agast your own sister, ” Christe Qun, the former speaker of the New York Cy Council, who is gay, said of Ms.

Hillary Clton admted that the policy was no longer applible, and that openly homosexual service members should be allowed to serve the ary. Rob Portman text: Rob Portman, R-Oh, was once on the short-list of Mt Romney's 2012 nng mat and opposed gay marriage legislatn. Portman reversed his nservative stance Thursday light of his own son's beg gay.

LIZ CHENEY SAYS ‘I WAS WRONG’ TO OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

Rob Portman's reversal on gay marriage.

Quicklist:3tle:Dick Cheneytext:In 2004, former Vice Print Dick Cheney publicly voiced his supportive stance for gay marriage equaly at var pots on the 2004 re-electn mpaign trail. Bh, who opposed gay marriage and set the admistratn's policy on the Cheney did not actively lobby for same-sex marriage as vice News' Jonathan Karl asked Cheney July whether he wished he had more actively lobbied for same-sex marriage.

DICK CHENEY ACTIVELY SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE ( NON-ELECTN YEARS)

"Cheney said he do not thk gay marriage should be a relevant issue printial Bin text:Vice Print Joe Bin beme the send nsecutive vice print to voice public support for gay marriage, beatg Print Obama to the May 2012, the vice print dited a changg policy on the issue wh the Obama Admistratn when he appeared on NBC's "Meet the Prs". "I am absolutely fortable wh the fact that men marryg men, women marryg women and heterosexual men and women marryg one another are entled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberti, " Bin vice print's statement ed a flurry of rpons om both the media and the ernment bee the print set the tone for gay marriage policy.

Print Obama also announced his support for gay marriage a few days later, even though he said Bin got "a ltle over his skis" on the Obama text:Six months before his send printial electn, Print Obama announced his support for gay marriage May 2012. Print to publicly support gay marriage.

ADAM MCKAY: I LIKE TO THK ‘VICE’ HAD SOMETHG TO DO WH LIZ CHENEY SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE

Many believe the print's new stance helped galvanize support for his mpaign the fal months leadg up the 2012 electn, which he his send gural addrs, Print Obama cemented his posn on gay marriage for the duratn of his princy by lkg the gay marriage stggle to civil rights movements of the past. Huntsman officially reversed his opposn to gay marriage an op-ed piece the Amerin Conservative Febary the piece, Huntsman discsed how the Republin Party would benef om embracg gay marriage legislatn and how marriage should be a source of happs for all people. Huntsman has joed 76 Republins who signed on to the legal brief support of gay marriage the Supreme Court's upg lg on the Defense of Marriage Barrtext:Bob Barr led the legislative bate ncerng same-sex marriage by thorg and sponsorg the ntroversial Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted act stated that stat would only ferally regnize marriag between men and women.

Addnally, the act stated that stat had the optn of not regnizg same-sex marriag performed outsi of the stat where the uple the act was passed and enforced, Barr has officially rcd his ial posn on same-sex marriage and apologized for the portn of the legislatn preventg same-sex marriage regnn at the 2008 Libertarian supports the Rpect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage more about how the same-sex marriage bate has changed sce Cltontext:Former Print Bill Clton signed the Defense of Marriage Act to effect 1996, signalg a lack of support for gay marriage his admistratn's act ferally regnized marriag between men and women, not between homosexual upl. The act also allowed dividual stat the optn of not regnizg same-sex marriag that were performed outsi of the stat where the uple signg DOMA, Clton signed "don't ask, don't tell, " a policy that allowed homosexuals servg the ary to keep their sexualy secret. Crics of the policy said Clton was not gog far enough preventg same-sex discrimatn, while the print's admistratn mataed that the act's purpose was to ter homosexual ary members om 1996 Clton told LGBT magaze, The Advote, that he was stnchly rooted his opposn for the legislatn.

This has been my long-standg posn, and is not beg reviewed or nsired, " Clton after leavg the Oval Office, Clton voiced his official support of gay marriage 2009 durg an appearance at the Camp Progrs Natnal Conference Washgton. He said that was wrong for people to stop homosexual upl om marryg, and that he supported stat' rights to ci their posns on the issue, rather than volvg the feral.

CHENEY PARENTS FEND LIZ CHENEY GAY MARRIAGE FD WH SISTER

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Mary Cheney (centre) and Liz Cheney (right) watch their father take the oath of office for his send term 2005An argument between former Vice-Print Dick Cheney's two dghters about gay marriage has gone Cheney, a ndidate for a US Senate seat, told Fox News Sunday she believed the "tradnal" fn of remarks prompted her sister Mary Cheney, who is married to a woman, to post on Facebook: "You're jt wrong.

"But Mary Cheney - who worked on the re-electn mpaign on Gee W Bh, an opponent of gay marriage - took umbrage at her siblg's posted on Facebook: "Liz - this isn't jt an issue on which we disagree you're jt wrong - and on the wrong si of history.

Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., exprsed regret over her earlier opposn to same-sex marriage, a posn she took eight years ago that led to a public fallg out wh her sister, Mary, who is gay and married wh children. Dick Cheney's Gay Marriage Quote | [se:name] | Natnal Review.

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Former Vice Print Dick Cheney wad to a spat between his dghters, Liz Cheney and Mary Cheney, who is openly gay, sayg that Liz's kdns to her sister shouldn't be ed to "distort" her posn supportg "tradnal marriage. READ: Liz Cheney Says She Is 'Not Pro-Gay Marriage'. Mike Enzi of Wyomg 2014, said on Fox News Sunday that she and her sister "disagree" on the issue of gay marriage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney says he didn’t see the pot of raisg the issue of gay marriage the 2000 printial mpaign, even though he supported . ” he rpond to ABC News when asked a televised terview whether he should have phed harr for gay upl to marry. “Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so ’s an issue that our fay is very faiar wh, ” Cheney said durg a town hall Davenport, Iowa, acrdg to the Washgton Post story.

) said she was “wrong” to oppose gay marriage the past durg an terview that aired on “60 Mut” Sunday night. Cheney’s primary opponent, Enzi, oppos gay marriage.

LIZ CHENEY, WHO SOLD OUT GAY SISTER, NOW OUT OF WYOMG SENATE RACE

“I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage, ” she said a statement earlier this year, cg reports of a “ph poll” about her social issu posns. Her father has prevly dited support for gay marriage at the state level. Bh endorsed a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, Mary Cheney cid to stay on.

Among fake Abe’s many zgers, this one ught our attentn: "Hillary’s polici are the same as Dick Cheney’s, except Cheney supported gay marriage sooner!

Instead we foced on the claim that "Cheney supported gay marriage sooner" than Clton. His send-olst dghter, Mary Cheney, is openly gay and she married her longtime partner, Heather Poe, 2012.