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  • I don't know the history of marriage law or it's governmental component, and it may be fair to say that this should be an issue regulated by state governments only. I wonder how Mr. Cheney (do I still call him Mr. VP Cheney?) would compare/contrast this to federal laws about racial matters...did the federal government overstep in that case too? I credit him with having a nuanced stance on these matters.

  • How much do you want to bet that he's only supporting this because nearly the entire country hates him??

  • He is more tolerant of gay marriage then Barack Obama and Joe Biden ever will be

  • @KingCobra1984 Incredible, isn't it!

  • this is an amazing idea to think about.

  • Hes the ONLY Republican that agrees on same sex mariage

  • @TheGabby07 what about Elizabeth Hasselbeck? Or Jenna Bush?

  • @emoviebuff87 umm they aren't for gay marriage...... and even if they were a bit, they dislike it and believe love can only be between a men and woman, and that its going ''against'' god..

  • @TheGabby07 Not true.

  • I think I have found some new found respect for Cheney

  • I think he just said this because Obama is against it... Politics is just a big old soap opera...

  • Slavery should be on a state-by-state basis, then. I'd like to see how Mississippi and Alabama fares.

  • Why a "state by state" basis and not an "individual by individual" basis?

  • relax, not even obama is that progressive on this issue.

  • Wow! It shows how important it is for gay people to come out. I'm sure his daughter has influenced his thinking on this.

  • I never though I said I would say this: I agree with Dick Cheney on something.

  • @imanerd36 ... with the exception of the state-by-state thing, right?

  • everyone deserves freewill! FUK ALL U SELFISH PRICKS WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT THEM SELVES. EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE HAPPY IN THIS WORLD!!!

  • Dick Cheney is Drag Queen DAME EDNA!

  • How ironic that Dick Cheney is to the left of Obama on this point. He's always been consistent on the point of gay marriage being a state issue, and he's always been in favor of it, which is consistent with his basic ideals on social liberty. Or, as he said during the 2004 campaign, a person should be free to do whatever he likes, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

  • I bet he would fight for a federal staute toward gay marriage if he were promised millions toward one of his companies. Lol. (Hallaburton, Iraq).

  • of course

  • this guy has the biggest sets of balls in the world. he is a typical wacko right wing head case. He chickened out of the war in the 60's with, FIVE deferments, yet sent thousands to die in iraq. He is conservative on every issue EXCEPT, gay rights. On this issue, he doesn't take the standard right wing position. No, on this he is uncharacteristically non committal. Call me a cynic here, but maybe having a gay daughter might be influencing him. .

  • What all these homophobes are forgetting is that your hate is having an affect on society, a society where your children will be raised. If your child was homosexual you would want them to have rights, if you were homosexual, you would want to have rights, put yourself in their position, it worked for me.

  • can someone answer the question:

    IF MARRIAGE IS A FEDERAL LAW, WHY IS GAY MARRIAGE BEING DECIDED BY THE STATES? shouldnt it be decided by the supreme court?

  • No,in fact it should be fundamental. We shouldn't even be voting on "rights" at all.

  • after watching this i want a "dick cheney" in me

  • I'm pretty sure even before the first Bush presidency Cheney's mild pro-gay-marriage stance was known.

  • Recent polls show that over 70% of people under 40 support Same-Sex Marriage :) just a matter of time before the old fucks croak.

  • I think it will remain state-by-state for awhile, then in years to come, the Supreme Court will force the fuckers in Texas to at least recognize same-sex marriages, and eventually perform them.

  • wtf?

  • Maybe Dick Cheney and George Walker Bush could become same sex lovers as they are both Gay anyway.

  • it's amazing - as soon as republicans are personally affected, gay marriage is a swell thing all of a sudden... can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?

  • Now, if we can only get OBAMA to talk this way.

  • Thank you former VP Penis Cheney, you suck ass.

  • He's saying this now because he's no longer the vice president, he's trying to deter from the whole TORTURE thing and he's trying to make Obama look bad.

  • Bravo, Mr. Cheney! You are redeeming yourself...

  • honestly, i would have been much happier if Cheney was president instead of Bush

  • The guy who read the question was in no way gay at all

  • What an utter load of crappy codswallop

  • Unless you're joking - for the sake of humanity, I hope you're joking!

  • @darcymayberry LMAO.

    oh go back to your klan party the kool-aids gettin cold.

  • Id go one step further, hun, and say that they should just use the term Sodomite Marriage™ to reflect the mythological-based deviance and endless emptiness of their unholy legal bond.

    Homosexuals should also be mandated to wear arm bands identifying them to the world as Practicing Homosexual. This would separate them from the rest of society and thus prevent any redefinition of the word person, obviously reserved only for normal people like you and me.

    God bless.

  • @darcymayberry oh my god what a fantastic idea! you know, we should do that with the jews too! maybe keep them in little ghettos and kill em off with gas chambers! :D

    of course, this irony is probably sadly lost on such a simple-minded person. :(

  • Well, I think what newBelGum meant was:

    homosexuals probably don't have any time to eat much since they are so busy keeping people like newBel and I very, very busy posting all these angry rants and throwing all of these tantrums on a video website.

    I mean, if newBel and I are wasting this much time talking and thinking about about these random people we don't even know, just imagine how much time they must be spending trying to get our panties in a bunch!

  • Exactly, beckyboop. And more specifically, marriage is only about functioning sex ORGANS. I know I didn't marry my husband because I love him--or even like him, for that matter. The only reason I married him is because he was born with a penis, with which he filled me with sperm and impregnated me. This is the sanctity of marriage.

  • @darcymayberry oh. LMFAO. i totally thought you were serious from before. my bad!!!!!!! :D

  • newBelGum, you're most certaily right dear. Obviously when someone wants to marry, all they're really asking to do is legally certify the type of the sex they have. But you and I both know that the ONLY type of sex the government should be handing out special nanny state rewards for is penis-vagina sex. We should get a cookie from the government for being good boys and girls and creating lots and lots of new human bodies for our government to tax and control.

    God bless us so much, sweet hun.

  • I'm with you on that one, Illnnn333.. lol!

    I got one for ya:

    What's the difference between a woman who has anal sex and a freezer?

    Freezers don't fart when you pull the meat out.

    I despise ANY man or woman who will allow a penis to enter his or her anus! It just makes me so ANGRY!!!

    God bless.

  • This is a civil rights issue. Discrimination due to bigotry has to stop, period.

    I'm republican, and I am proud of Dick Cheney. (although I think it's a federal issue and not a state issue). lol.

  • I don't agree with Dick Cheney, but I like the diversity of opinion in my party.

  • BOOOOOOO Dick

  • how can some ppl enjoy marriage yet deny others because they are gay??? TREAT OTHERS HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED

  • Dick Cheney will die soon....and there will be a special place in hell reserved for him

  • thnx for splitting the republican party more, DICK!

  • Mr. Cheney said he believes people should be able to enter whatever union they wish. So, how about polygamists, 40 year old men that want to marry 12 year olds, men that want to marry their animals....etc.

  • @winterto retarded argument; Civil rights gave disenfranchized people new liberties but we didn't extend them to animals, convicts, etc. Stop masking the real problem with bullshit please.

  • Where was this douchbag when he actually had power? He waited until he was out of office to not offend his congregation, dumb fucking politicians

  • TOO LATE ASSHOLE

  • Be who you want to be, but let the state decide if its ok? I'm a straight guy myself, with no troubles of who you wants to kissy-kissy who. Dick trying to be liberal, and failing miserably! Don't matter, can't stand the fucker anyway. Wigwahm, I very unfortunately agree with you. Nazi's& other so-called terrorists don't get half the shit! 'I have a gay daughter (must've been pure HELL).She can be gay, but not by LAW!!!!! Dick Cheney, glad your daughter is gay...,You..., FUCK OFF!!!!

  • As we all know, there are a handful of political boxes (e.g. conservative, liberal, libertarian, and so on) that people identify themselves with, and assign others to in their minds. It seems many who have commented are trying to force Richards views on this issue into one of the ideological containers so the labels will still fit. In fact, it seems that many of these comments are attempts to put Dick in a box. 

  • *

    Cheney's trying to pretend like he's a libertarian.

    He's smart enough to see that libertarianism, NOT theocratism is the future for those who oppose high debt and high taxes.

    Too little TOO LATE.

    To be a libertarian one MUST hold to a philosophy based on non violence as well as personal freedoms. The Libertarian Party is the ONLY political party in the world that makes you take an oath of non-violence to be a member.

    Cheney is for preemptive violence and torture.

    He is NO libertarian

  • that is a big FUCK YOU to social conservatives!!

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  • Goddamnit, why none of this from cheny when he was in power! I guess I know the reasons...but still, frustrating.

  • He was too scared.

  • Huh? Dick Cheney scared? What the fuck has Dick Cheney ever been scared of asshole? He's retired! This is a man who has never had ANYBODY put him in his place....a man who has liberals for breakfast everyday.He's the fucking Prince of Darkness. Cheney's answer was dead-on.....just like abortion rights, gay marriage rights should be up to the individual STATES and not the Federal Gov. Scared? No, ppl like YOU get scared.....

  • Haha.. Prince of Darkness.. I didn't think the Prince of Darkness would have a weak heart.

  • that speaker has a gay lisp.

    But w/e the problem isnt gays.

    Its femenazis

  • Thank God I live in Canada where everyone is equal under the Charter of Rights and Freedom. If two men or two women marry, it does not affect me in the least. Why should anyone care ???

    Since gay marriage came to be here over 5 years ago, society has not crumbled, there is no backlash, family values has not faded, and everyone seems happy. It is hard for me to see Dick Cheney saying he supports gay marriage, when he is so anti everything else.

  • Marriage is between a man and a woman only. No exceptions! This is why they say at the end of the vowels " I now pronounce you man and wife " and you will never change my mind.

  • okay then

  • Vowels, huh... A E I O U....Where's the "I now pronounce you man and wife"?

  • Except for when they say "I now pronounce you married." I won't attempt to change your mind, but the words used are not and have never been constant across every marriage ceremony.

  • why should that be? explain to me why other people can't be ahppy just because other dont like the same sex marrying...most guys like when to girls makeout or whatever so why can't they gett married..

  • Why would anyone chant that? You can't marry people's genitals together.

  • Well all I'm saying is that the only thing that matters in marriage is GENITALIA. It doesn't matter if two consenting, unrelated adult humans want to marry each other. All that matters is if those two people have different sex organs inside their pants. That's the ONLY thing I care about as a Conservative Republican(tm).

  • Marriage is between a man and a woman only. No exceptions! This is why they say at the end of the vowels " I now pronounce you man and wife " and you will never change my mind.

  • Your foolish statement about the declaration shows an extremely shallow understanding of the world. In most ceremonies it is "husband and wife" for the past 30 or so years. At one time it was 'man and wife', in an effort to reinforce the male dominant presumption of the christian cult. As to changing your mind... its closed, and like a parachute that never opens, you will crash and burn!

  • *

    Liberals want to be your mommy.

    Conservatives want to be your daddy.

    Libertarians treat you like an adult.

    *

  • Libertarians want privatized emergency services and concentration camps for people with AIDS, but have no doubt, the invisible hand of the free market will surely guide us in the right direction. After all, everyone knows consumers always make the right decisions.

  • Camps would require government intervention, like Sharia Law.  Liberatarians hate government intervention.

    Stay out of the sun and drink some water. You're sounding like a heat casualty.

  • FiestaNinja

    I don't want any of those things. That's outrageous. "concentration camps" that's ridiculous, that would be UN-libertarian.

    I suppose that there a rare few who might want privatization of emergency services, but those functions are local, and our main emphasis is on national. I personally don't want privatization of those.

    You're confusing me with a small group of very purist "tight" types who are a very "micro" reality. The larger macro movement is not so "tight", but more populist

  • Look how the conservatives have to be beaten in the head for a few years and suddenly the light goes off, after they have lost their bigotry battle. Now they want to do the right thing. Disgusting.

  • He is pretty moderate and reasonable on the issue, though, as this video demonstrates. In fact, at least officially, Dick Cheney the torture fetishist is more progressive on gay marriage than President Obama.

  • The issue is civil marriage, which includes hundreds of legal rights, responsibilities, and benefits from states and the federal government. I don't care about religious ceremonies.

  • @BrendanM4458: Exactly! Granting marriage rights to adult same-sex couples has no impact on religious institutions. After all, they are Constitutionally protected from being forced to conduct a ceremony. Further, employment is a non-issue as they somehow find ways to employ and extend benefits to non-believers in their staffs. And denying Christ is a way worse sin for Christians than living gay! If they can deal with that, they can deal with this.

  • Marriage is a religious institution. Its not a right. Homosexuals push for marriage because its a way to spit in the face of one of the many religions that calls homosexuality a sin. This is why they don't want unions. Lets see them push for marriage between homosexual men/women in Islam. Won't happen. This is all hatred towards religion and religious people by homosexuals, nothing else.

  • there is something wrong with you mentally

  • No "minion", marriage is both a SECULAR and a theocratic 'institution'. It's already been noted that there is an "inequality" betweeen a civil union and marriage. What is being pushed for is EQUALITY. That's why schools were forcibly integrated... "separate but equal is seldom equal"! Your tirade about GLBT hatred of 'religion' is right from the cult playbooks.

  • Govt should not be involved in marriage at all. Eliminate the tax break, allow govt to issue civil unions to anyone. Less govt, more tax revenue, more freedom, everyone equal.

  • HIV is spread by unprotected sex hetero or homosexual and tainted blood contact.

    Absurd...Duh? Who and how would you police such a inane law? "The Sex Police?" sounds like a rock group!

  • yes, but HIV is much easy to transmit through anal sex, the delicate tissues are much more receptive to tearing and bleeding hench tainted blood transmission.

    They would'nt have to police it, just tell people that if they are found out to have had anal sex, they could be fined or something like that.

  • Dude, you acted as if you know it all but your brainless. Homosexuals didn't bring AIDS to heterosexuals. That's what people think when AIDS first discover. AIDS virus been exist a long time and no know where it started. You think like the 50's, go get educated.

    You are just one of those stupid retard who who want to blame others for anything just you feel good about it.

    With that attitude

  • What sounds absurd is apparently anything that comes from your mouth!

    Homosexuality WAS illegal, and it still existed.

    There are laws prohibiting child abuse, sexual, emotional, physical, and mental... it still happens! And isn't it interesting... most of those doing it are the parents or family members!

    motherlegion, you're a MORON.... (more to come!)

  • globally, there are more heterosexuals with HIV than homosexuals. There was recently a heterosexual man being prosecuted for knowingly infecting 5 women with HIV. I don't think outlawing homosexuality will do anything to stop it, the only kind of law i would agree with is requiring 1 free testing of all people over 18, for every std, every year, that would help cut back on alot of std's and not just HIV. Also a substantial amount of heteros take part in anal, so that argument is moot

  • AisforAd4m-

    Well said!

  • Marriage- a lifelong boring sexless commitment... let the heteros have it, they deserve it. 50% of them can't stick with it anyway. Should divorced people be allowed to vote on this issue; a commitment before god and the law that they have broken? I think not. HYPOCRITS. Take them out of the voting populace on this issue- they obviously do not understand the importance of vows and commitment. And yet they all want to cry like little girls- marriage is only for us- wah wah wah.

  • Let the fags marry each other, who cares!! There are way more important issues for our leaders (or former leaders) to discuss.

  • He has 'lived with a daugther that is homosexual'???? Does he think he is a victim of something? He is an evil immoral bastard....

  • Wow one of my daughters is gay but I won't support her getting married but I support torture.How do u yanks put up with it.

  • Not surprised. Cheney has always gone against Democracy and the will of the American people. (Not to mention Freedom of Speech)

    Cheneys biggest fan is Gavin Newsom.

    Both share the creed of "Whether you like it or not".

  • Newsom despises Cheney and the Bush administration. Nice try.

  • If Newsom despised the Bush Regime then why does he act like them?

    Spewing out talking points, just like Karl Rove, which his followers regurgitate all over the news. His whether you like it or not attitude. His railing against Democracy and Freedom of speech.

    Any intelligent and Patriotic American who supports Newsom BUT was opposed to the Bush Regime is a hypocrite.

  • Newsom totally acts like the Bush Administration, right?

    That's why he tortures people, tries to ban gay marriage, supports a war in a country that had not capability to hurt us, cuts funding on just about all the sciences, wants abstinence only to be taught in school, wire-taps americans, and wants to ban abortion.

    Oh wait, no, he and Bush have nothing common.

    Maybe being white male humans?

  • You sound exactly and I mean EXACTLY like a Neocon.

    Meaning you ignored what I said and tried to point and redirect the argument.

    Slow clap.

  • sicking a penis up someone else's anus is torture, no doubt about it

  • Most people, including a high percentage of heterosexuals seem to enjoy it. Maybe you're not doing it right... WAIT!, unless you're a lesbian, then I can understand you don't have the natural parts available for anal sex and may resort to toys too large for you.

  • I think we should put the second amendment up for a vote! Then alI of us who think that guns are harming our society and way of life could vote on taking that right away! What? Do I hear the rumble of Republican furor over having a right taken away? You say that the government can't get involved in your personal life to that extent? You say that responsible gun ownership doesn't harm our society...hmmm I don't think we can take that chance. What if every one who owns a gun shot someone?

  • Marriage:

    Those who take it upon themselves to sanction unions of grace, and then ignore the responsibility of their own divinity toward others, have no moral ground upon which to oppose those who choose to accept the reality, divinity & humanity of loves truth.

    PeaceProfit@Twitter

  • PeaceProfit-

    Well said!

  • thanx, it's nice to have a first comment from one who sees sanity & peace as something worthwhile, especially on a subject that i*know will most likely attract negative response... for...

    If the world is an asylum, run by the inmates, there is no way to know what sanity is...

    Until.... those who stand only with peace... speak.

    PeaceProfit@Twitter

  • You are welcome PeaceProfit. I have never understood why some are so concerned with a subject that involves two people in love when there is so much hate and war in the world that they should be as/if not more concerned about!

  • Fear provokes most to strike at the weaker & more vulnerable parts of society, hence those who cling to practices that promote a false truth of past or present teachings, those who adhere to fear based doctrine without seeking the true meaning, awareness & value of a peaceful heart, all*ways, will be led unto the darkness of denying their humanity, oppressing & abusing the least among them, for which they shall be judged...

    Please forgive my soap*boxing, but that hits a nerve for me*to ;)

  • PeaceProfit-

    I don't find your words to be "soap-boxing." They seem to me to be very wise and intelligent and definitely words that should be spoken.

    "Fear," an emotion so connected to the reptilian, primitive part of our brains has caused so much misery. Learning and understanding are the only way to overcome it,IMHO.

    Thanks for those wise words!

  • The govt has no business being involved in marriage. Eliminate the tax break, allow the govt to only issue civil unions for anyone. Less govt, more freedom, everyone is equal.

  • sounds like one of those fucking liberals!

  • Actually leaving this decision up to the state, traditionally would be a Republican/conservative thing to do. Maybe you should turn off Fox news and read a book or two.

  • I'm sick of you damn liberals! Look what you've done to Dick Cheney!

  • yea, its those damn liberals that turned his daughter gay! If it wasn't for those liberals, Dick's daughter would be straight and he could go on hating gays like the rest of the backwater hicks!

  • If he would only repeat this more and often. I am glad he loves his daughter so much that he cares so much about this issue.

  • I'm glad to see the Dickster more open then a lot of Republicans. But....

    Dick's "reasoning" is very similar to the excuses used against women voting in the early 20th century. YOu know, passing the buck from federal to state issue. it also seems archaic by today's standards that "state issue" was used to justify lawas against interracial marriages.

    You Conservatives are "ok" with sharing these traits? Think about how disgusting are you going to look to your children and grandchildren.

  • Dick Cheney on Same-Sex Marriage - WE'RE ALREADY READY! (prop 8!)

    .... if his daughter wasn't gay .........

    watch?v=wGimYA5nVFY

  • And the hypocritical "Christian" right still supports this person, who holds ideas completely against what they say they believe in. Why? Because the Christian Right is nationalist and uses religion as a tool/weapon without understanding even the basics of the teachings of Jesus. Or at least that's my opinion.

  • I wonder whether Cheney would be in favor of gay marriage if his daughter was not gay? I doubt it!! In fact, during his campaigns for office, he down-played the fact that his daughter is gay. This man is the greatest "fraud" the country has ever seen. He should be tried for war crimes and thrown in jail!

  • How's that Haliburton Blood Money treating you DICK?

    "WTF are you talking about???? what does haliburton have to do with blood money." -niosopc

    Are you fucking kidding me? Have you been living under a rock the last 8 years?

  • arequipa u really cant back up your statement "not what nature intended". and you know this how? your the leading authority on it? and why are the "animals" confused about it? we humans are animals so every gay Must be confused on what they are doing. also baadger how is gay = sexual perversion? please define perversion for me so i can understand. and then why do you think its a perversion. and if you say it not natural or "god" doesn't wish it, then your a dumb ass.

  • Dont waste your time. These are people who are religous fanatics and couldnt think for themselves if their life depended on it.

  • watch?v=00RTPn78VhE

  • cheney

    what a cunt

  • This man okayed the rape/torture of little children, as young as 8 years of age in front of their mothers and fathers, Raped fathers and mothers ...

    He authorized the waterboarding of innocent people.

    Oversaw the largest redistribution of wealth in world history. Started us into a war of lie with paid distraction from our military industrialized owned press complete with paying off the presstitues.

    And we want to hear what he has to say on gay marriage or 911? Locked him up!!!

  • There are innocent people dying in this country right now because of who they are. One travesty does not outshine another, they are equally significant.

  • innocent people continue to die at the hands of America and it's allies, and people listen to this distraction.

  • The sad fact is the gay community does not have an effective leader to lead a civil uprising and demand civil and equal rights. That Joe Solmonese does not do enough and has not gathered the right people to make an effective team. The fact that a gay American can be denied employment, housing, etc. based on their sexuality is absurd. That is no different from denying the same to a handicapped person or a person of color. Where is my Martin Luther King?

  • Yeah, Cheney remains an idiot scum bag.

  • "but that decisions about marriage laws are best made at a state level. "

    Civil rights is not a states issue.

    Fuck off Cheney.

  • yes, you sure seem like the expert in civics!

  • Whether black people should be treated as second class citizens or not is an issue for the states to decide.

  • Does his support for gay marriage lessin the notion that he's an evil man? You be the judge.

  • The state solution doesn't work for many reasons - non-transportability of benefits, non-recognition of same-sex marriages for visitors and immigrants, non-recognition of partners for hospital visits. Imagine your partner/spouse has an accident in a state that doesn't recognise same-sex marriage and you can't get visitation rights or the state doesn't recognise you as the parent of your partner's biological child!?!

  • The "majority" should not be allowed to make decisions to discriminate against other Americans, especially those paying equal amounts of taxes. This is America afterall and I (for once) agree with Cheney that freedom means freedom for everyone, not just the majority.