Mary Cheney shames anti-gay GOPers:‘For yrs I have listened to them talk about importance of family'

[kpete]

Mary Cheney, a Washington, D.C. political consultant and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, suggested this week that members of her family’s party were hypocrites for saying that they supported family values while they opposed marriage rights for same-sex couples.

In a column published by Fox News on Monday, Cheney pointed out that Republican presidential candidates seemed to be waging a contest to see “who can be the most stalwart defender of ‘traditional marriage’ – who can most effectively stoke the unfounded fears of the far right.”

Cheney noted that GOP candidates “regularly throw around phrases like religious freedom and religious liberty, warn that marriage equality will lead to the criminalization of Christianity or the downfall of the American family, and fret that our nation’s very future is at risk.”

“Let’s be clear. The fight over marriage equality isn’t about religious freedom or the criminalization of Christianity,” she wrote, noting that states had carried out civil marriages without the church, and that would not change regardless of whether or not the Supreme Court recognized that same-sex couples had the equal rights.




More:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mary-cheney-shames-anti-gay-gopers-for-years-i-have-listened-to-them-talk-about-importance-of-family/

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/01/its-time-for-republican-party-leaders-to-embrace-marriage-equality.html

[riversedge]

1. Good for her.

[Orsino]

2. Hurry up and give Mary Cheney her equality...

...so she can blindly support all the party's other murderous, mean and stupid policies that enrich her.