Lynne Cheney called out John Kerry for calling her daughter a lesbian. She said his doing that was a "cheap and tawdry political trick."
Trick's on Lynne.
Someday, in the not so distant future, mentioning that someone is a lesbian, will not be considered by their mother to be an attack, an epithet, or a "cheap and tawdry political trick." It will be like mentioning their hair is blonde. Just a fact, not unlike any other.
How can you conclude anything else but that Ms. Cheney is ashamed of her daughter?
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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Robin, if I may address your mom:
Ms. Dennis, there are those who believe in the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and those who do not. Those who believe in the civil rights of gays and lesibans know that calling someone gay or lesbian is no different from saying they have brown hair. And others who hear this, if they also believe in the civil rights of gays and lesbians, respond as if they have heard someone saying they have brown hair. It really is that innoccuous.
Ms. Dennis, the Republicans and the Republican party do not believe in the civil rights of gays and lesbians. To them, being a "lesbian" is like being an axe murderer -- saying it is an accusation of regrettable immorality. They react that way, too -- Mr. and Mrs. Cheney. And they have to; if they did not, their right-wing supporters would suspect that the Cheney's support civil rights of gays and lesbians, because they don't see them as regrettably immoral.
Why did Mary Cheney herself react that way? Because she's a politician, and her father's daughter. If she insisted that it be treated as innocuously as "brown hair" , then that would amount to a demand on her father's right-wing supporters that they do so to. And her father's right-wing supporters won't -- they see Mary Cheney as an axe murderer, and something for her parents to be ashamed of. So they'd damn well better act that way.
I think it's just fine that Edwards and Kerry refer to the humanness of Mary Cheney, and laud Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney for being loving parents and embracing their daughter's lesbiannes. Dick Cheney bit his lip, and thanked Edwards for it during the debate. Too bad he felt he had to go out and prove to the world afterwards that, in fact, he believes his daughter is regrettably immoral.
If you want to vote for the party led by people willing to condemn publicly their daughter by expressing their shame and awkwardness about her lesbian identity, then vote for the Republican Party.
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