Dick Cheney on Same-Sex Marriage

Former Vice President Cheney responded to a question about the inevitability of legal same-sex marriage in the U.S., saying that he believed "freedom means freedom for all" but that decisions about marriage laws are best made at a state level.

• Category

  News & Politics

[dmacinca]

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

[ARMEDSh0t]

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

[Ron Charles]

A group of over 70 Republicans has filed an Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court arguing that there is a fundamental right to gay marriage in regard to the Proposition 8 case. Amongst this group are Meg Whitmann, Jon Huntsman, Mary Bono Mack, Christine Todd Whitman, William Weld, Paul Celluci, and Dick and Lynne Cheney's daughter Mary.

[evan13579b]

Freedom means forcing everyone to conflate different things.

Freedom means forcing everyone to call different things by the same name.

Freedom means requiring everyone to believe that homosexuality is innate.

[IAMASTRONGMAN]

Now, I don't fully support Cheney on everything, but give him a break. He's realized that he was wrong on this specific issue, and people still bash him. Forgiveness is not strong here.

[dsspike51]

That must have been hard for him. This may have been the only time I may have had any type of sympathy for him. I do have to wonder if what he said is true or was it just said as to not allianate his daughter. Like I said, it must have been hard.

[amenon55]

if only one of dick cheney's kids was iraqi