I don't think anyone has ever used the word "only" with that argument. There's always exceptions to almost everything. However, it is probably a very, very low number of conservatives who would agree with what Mary Cheney has done.

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Why should she or her dad care about that?

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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

I vote News.

This story really strikes me as driving a stake into the heart of the hypocritical NeoCons who insist on push their anti-gay constitutional amendment, pro-fundamental religion morals, family values, etc., etc. And of all the pious jerks that have zero tolerance for anything but the missionary position, Cheney is at the top of the list. He actively sought that position of sanctimoneous of heart but corrupt of mind while he preached his fundamental religious agenda and at the same time never hesitated to push billions of dollars in government contracts to his corporate buddies or send American boys off to die in Iraq for his conspiracies. Now his daughter got herself knocked up in some relationship that the VP would normally abhor...and we're being asked to show some tolerance.

I'll show tolerance to the daughter, because that is what I believe. But I'll stand on the top of a mountain and yell, "Cheney is a hypocritical S.O.B. with double standards, and no morals at all".

I would love to ask him if he believes being gay is caused by genetic factors or how you are raised? Either way, he hold 50% of the blame!

Are we all going to be tolerant now of Muslim women who cover themselves out of modesty and religious teachings? Come'on, Dick..can an old dog like you learn a new concept that perhaps their are other humans on earth that choose to live a different lifestyle than yours...and that's okay? I am quite sure Cheney has things all rationalized in that narrow pea brain of his.

I hope the child is a boy and they name it Richard Cheney, Jr. not in honor of the Cheney name, but in defiance of a truly worthlessness of his grandfather.

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Charter member of 'Republicans Who Hate Bush" Club

Mary Cheney's pregnancy is unconscionable. Props for calling it what it is. And it has nothing to do with her being a lesbian. It has everything to do with another child growing up in a Fatherless home. Another child grows up Fatherless. Congratulations. My advice? Get a pet.

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Why would anyone care if a political party agrees with their birth of a child?

So would you feel the same if there was a strong working woman in a contractual relationship (know it's illegal now, but let's pretend) with Mary Cheney? Or if Mary Cheney worked and had a stay-at-home partner?
If someone fills the niche of the father then I really don't see where there's a complaint. A decent lesbian couple has the potential to do as well as any straight couple.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

The only person capable of filling the role of being a father is a Father. And by father, I do not mean it in the context of being a sperm donor. I mean it in terms of a man modeling for his children what it looks like to be a real man--a person that sacrifices for his family, looks after and cares for their long-term future, loves, cherishes and honors their mother, is trustworthy and faithful, to name but a few fatherly attributes. And I am sorry, but a man can only model this role.

Study upon study upon study concludes unanimously that children grow up best and succeed in life when they grow up in a two-parent home consisting of a husband and a wife.

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Winston Churchill

It wouldn't be news if Mary Cheney was just any other lesbian in a relationship having a baby. Happens a lot actually.

But she is the daughter of a very conservative Vice President involved with a White House that opposes gay marriage and gay adoption. Bush and Cheney have both spoken out that they do believe a child needs to be raised is a home by a Father and a Mother and that gay parents are unacceptable. If they truly acted on their conscience (and aren't merely spouting what they know their lunatic hateful social conservatives want to hear), they would insist that every child, whether adopted or created by artificial insemination be removed from a gay household and placed in foster care.

Of course that would make them appear to be monsters and they know that the conservative social base isn't big enough by itself to win elections for the Republican party.

I wish Mary Chaney, her partner and their baby a long and very happy life. Hopeful in two years time, Mary will start to get a semblance of her privacy back.

Studies show that households with a father and mother do better than single-parent households. So long as they have role models that can manage to take care of the kid and show the way to succeed in the world.
Why could a woman not fulfill the father's role? If the lesbians were involved in a contractual and strong relationship and devoted to each other and the child, why would there be a problem?

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left. - F.A. Hayek

Where have all the Conservatives Gone?

There is always hope, as long as one can think.