Hot Topic (6/4): Dick Cheney supports gay marriage . . .

[Cafe GroupAdmin]

. . . do you? 

According to New York Magazine: 

Speaking at the National Press Club today, Dick Cheney, who has a lesbian daughter, offered a full-throated endorsement for same-sex marriage. "I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," he said. But lest you take this as some sort of breakthrough, recall that Cheney said almost the same thing all the way back in 2000, during a vice-presidential debate with Joe Lieberman. "We live in a free society and freedom means freedom for everybody" is how he put it at the time, three years before gay marriage would be legal in Massachusetts, and eight before Connecticut followed suit. Many people associate Cheney more with waterboarding or poorly lit bunkers (or laughing maniacally while waterboarding people in poorly lit bunkers) than with gay rights, but the man has been pretty consistent.

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Explain why you do or do not support legalization of gay marriage.

[Goodwoman614]

Now, isn't that special?

I seem to remember his record while in the office of veep as something very different from this.

[athenax3]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't he against gay marriage while in office?

[christina0607]

I live in MA so it is very much legal.

But I didn't answer the poll, because to be completely honest I don't care if it is legal or if it isn't.

[Pepperlynns]

hmmm makes me wonder if he is setting him self up for 2012 (gag)

[MomIWant]

IMO marriage is a legal status - everyone should be allowed to have that status. 

[christina0607]

doubt it, most of the country is against gay marriage, so it wouldn't do him any good.

Quoting Pepperlynns:

hmmm makes me wonder if he is setting him self up for 2012 (gag)

[ta2dirishlass]

Two consenting ADULTS should be able to marry, period. All that Bible crap, moral crap, it doesn't hold water with me.

[mommyheymommy]

I want marriage to remain as is.

[WifeyC]

New Hampshire has a gay marriage bill saying they will legalize but will not force a church to perform the ceremony if they don't want to.

I'm all for that.  If you believe in your religion that it is a sin then don't perform the ceremony.  They should stop being discriminated against and allowed to get married and be miserable like the rest of us married people! ;)

[forsythia_18]

Somebody said this in another post and I whole-heartedly agree with it.  The majority should not be able to vote for rights of a minority. 

I support gay marriage and I hope people who are against it let down their unfounded judgements and allow them to live as they wish is this (almost, but not completely) free nation.