DEAR LYNNE CHENEY
First of all, love your work.
Okay, let's get down to business.
Your daughter is a grown woman. Not a grown woman in the Jenna Bush, just-got-out-of-college sense. I mean full-grown. Irrevocably an adult.
Furthermore, she is a lesbian. An out lesbian. And she happens to have done work for your husband and his running mate's campaign. She was on stage after the VP debate. With her partner, no less.
Being a lesbian is a thing, just like any other, like being left-handed, far-sighted or heterosexual. If you believe that lesbianism, in an of itself, is a bad thing, then you have departed from decent public discourse.
Last night Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, in answering a question from moderator Bob Scheiffer about whether homosexuality was a choice (a question your husband's running mate essentially ducked), mentioned your daughter, a non-closeted lesbian who has worked for your husband's campaign and stood on stage with her partner after last week's VP debate, saying that if asked, she wouldn't view her basic sexuality as a choice.
You used this episode to say Kerry is "not a good man", referring to his comment as "a tawdry political trick".
Those are your words, Lynne. My question is: Why? Why is it a tawdry political trick?
Did John Kerry make some sort of negative charge against Mary Cheney? Did he slander her without giving her, or her father, a chance to respond?
If so, then you, Lynne Cheney, are promoting the idea that lesbianism is, in and of itself, a bad thing, and a charge against which people must defend themselves. Complain all you want, but that's the subtext you are supporting when you make comments like that.
To quote Dubya's mom, I'm through with you!
Metrosexually yours,
The Facts Machine
First of all, love your work.
Okay, let's get down to business.
Your daughter is a grown woman. Not a grown woman in the Jenna Bush, just-got-out-of-college sense. I mean full-grown. Irrevocably an adult.
Furthermore, she is a lesbian. An out lesbian. And she happens to have done work for your husband and his running mate's campaign. She was on stage after the VP debate. With her partner, no less.
Being a lesbian is a thing, just like any other, like being left-handed, far-sighted or heterosexual. If you believe that lesbianism, in an of itself, is a bad thing, then you have departed from decent public discourse.
Last night Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, in answering a question from moderator Bob Scheiffer about whether homosexuality was a choice (a question your husband's running mate essentially ducked), mentioned your daughter, a non-closeted lesbian who has worked for your husband's campaign and stood on stage with her partner after last week's VP debate, saying that if asked, she wouldn't view her basic sexuality as a choice.
You used this episode to say Kerry is "not a good man", referring to his comment as "a tawdry political trick".
Those are your words, Lynne. My question is: Why? Why is it a tawdry political trick?
Did John Kerry make some sort of negative charge against Mary Cheney? Did he slander her without giving her, or her father, a chance to respond?
If so, then you, Lynne Cheney, are promoting the idea that lesbianism is, in and of itself, a bad thing, and a charge against which people must defend themselves. Complain all you want, but that's the subtext you are supporting when you make comments like that.
To quote Dubya's mom, I'm through with you!
Metrosexually yours,
The Facts Machine
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