LGBTQ muny has reason to doubt Liz Cheney's new support for gay rights

Contents:

• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• LIZ CHENEY, WHO SOLD OUT GAY SISTER, NOW OUT OF WYOMG SENATE RACE
• LGBTQ MUNY HAS REASON TO DOUBT LIZ CHENEY'S NEW SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE CHENEY FAY FD OVER GAY MARRIAGE AND CHENEY'S GAY DGHTER
• AFTER INFAMO RIFT WH GAY SISTER, LIZ CHENEY NOW ADMS 'I WAS WRONG' TO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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

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.

“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.

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

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. When Liz was first makg the bid for the seat she would eventually lose, she spoke out agast gay marriage spe the fact that her younger sister, Mary, was gay and married to long-time partner, Heather Poe, acrdg to the Los Angel Tim. The issue she was referrg to beg the qutn of gay marriage, which was not legalized all 50 stat until 2015.

Liz Cheney's stance on gay marriage has changed, but ever so slightly.

And jt as her views on Tmp have changed, so have her views on gay marriage. Acrdg to People, Mary Cheney had e out to her fay regardg her sexualy when she was still her teen years and was quietly accepted, wh her father walkg a fe le about the issue of gay marriage durg his years as vice print, helpg lead a party that was agast . When the Supreme Court clared gay marriage legal across the land 2015 (via NPR), both the Republin stance and Liz's stance began to evolve.

LGBTQ MUNY HAS REASON TO DOUBT LIZ CHENEY'S NEW SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS

In 2020, Poli reported that sourc close to the ngrswoman said her views on gay marriage had changed over the years and that an obscure 2019 terview, Liz said she nsired gay marriage "the law of the land. 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.

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

Long before Liz entered the polil arena, where she ultimately renounced gay marriage, the former VP 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 partner and future wife, Heather Poe. "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. Vice filmmaker McKay told GQ  2021 that he believed the bpic played a part Liz changg her posn on gay marriage.

AFTER INFAMO RIFT WH GAY SISTER, LIZ CHENEY NOW ADMS 'I WAS WRONG' TO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

McKay add, "To see her e out for gay marriage? The polls, which showed her gettg thumped, had to have been pretty may also have bee nseated by the ia that she put polics above fay when she sold out her sister on natnal televisn to rebut charg that she was not sufficiently agast gay marriage. This unnecsary and unpleasant fay drama surely did nothg to enar Cheney to voters her native Cheney learned the hard way, you nnot thread the needle on gay marriage 2009, when she worked for the State Department, Liz Cheney told MSNBC she opposed a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage and supported extendg feral benefs to same-sex upl.

Gay marriage, she said, should be cid by the gave a nservative Super PAC fodr for an attack ad pictg her as soft on gay marriage and “wrong for Wyomg.