I guess with Chest Pain Cheney, it's a case of being damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's hard to get two groups on the opposite side of the spectrum to agree on anything, but credit goes to Cheney tonight. He's managed to get people from both sides of the gay-marriage issue united on at least one common issue:
Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter Mary is a lesbian, drew criticism from both proponents and foes of gay marriage Tuesday after he distanced himself from President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
"What? You think Cheney's a jackass? So do I!"
Imagine everyone's surprise when these words came out of The Evil One's mouth:
"Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue our family is very familiar with," Cheney told an audience that included his daughter. "With the respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone ... People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to."
Followed by the sounds of a few hundred jobs dropping.
All kidding aside, the Family Research Council (of Conservative Zealots) issued a veiled threat to BC04 in response to Chest Pain Cheney's remarks:
Those comments drew criticism from the conservative Family Research Council, with President Tony Perkins saying, "I find it hard to believe the vice president would stray from the administration's position on defense policy or tax policy. For many pro-family voters, protecting traditional marriage ranks ahead of the economy and job creation as a campaign issue."
In other words, "You're treading on thin ice there, Dick. Keep talking like that and we all might just stay home on November 2 and, like, pray or something."
Here's the article.