Religious right spokesman blasts Mary Cheney birth.
By on May 30th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Religious right spokesman blasts Mary Cheney birth.
Stephen Bennett, a spokesman for the Concerned Women for America, reacts to the birth of Mary Cheney’s baby: “Heather Poe is Mary Cheney’s live-in lesbian lover. … Heather Poe is NOT the baby’s real parent. … If the Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this homosexual game of ‘house,’ then all have chosen their roles and designated lesbian lover Heather Poe as the ‘Daddy.’ … We are all grown adults. Playing ‘house’ is a game for children, not for The White House or the Vice President and his wife.”
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It's about time the real bigoted religious right spoke up about this.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pmWow. Did this guy get tongue-tied because the Vice-President is involved or is he just naturally incoherent?
And what the hell is Stephen Bennett doing as spokesman for Concerned Women for America?
May 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pmLet's see how Dick dances around this one.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pmWell, that settles that. Doesn't it?
May 30th, 2007 at 4:49 pm[Quote]Stephen Bennett, a spokesman for the Concerned Women for America[/Quote]
Gotta love it! A man speaking on behalf of women's issues.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pmGay day at TP
May 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pmWhat's a GUY doing in an organization called Concerned Broads for The States??
May 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pmIf Dick was true to his word he would verbally smack this man down. Remember how outraged Dick was when the subject of his lesbian daughter was brought up during the last election.
If Dick weren't a Dick he'd stand up for his family and attack this man in true Dick fashion.
It's not like he hasn't told any to F%ck off before.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:54 pmBet you he mysteriously gets shot in the face.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:55 pmI'm telling you guys, these people are so nasty, even to their own because they all are carrying around a few thousand tons of "judgment" baggage (what you get from being holier-than-thou), "Jesus is coming" baggage (what you get from fear of eternal damnation for having perfectly human thoughts about sex), and "deprived" baggage (what you get from mentally living in some delusional fantasy world that contradicts with the actual reality that exists).
May 30th, 2007 at 4:55 pm"It’s about time the real bigoted religious right spoke up about this.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — May 30, 2007 @ 4:46 pm"
And then it's time for the peace and love Christians to kick them out of the club.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pmHow charitable.
Self-righteous people like him are exemplary representatives for their male-dominated, narrow-minded authoritarian groups.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:57 pm"And what the hell is Stephen Bennett doing as spokesman for Concerned Women for America?
Comment by KRank — May 30, 2007 @ 4:48 pm"
Because Jesus taught that women have fewer brain cells than men, so we are unable to function in a leadership capacity... Even over our own organizations (sarcasm).
May 30th, 2007 at 4:58 pm"Gay day at TP
Comment by Flaco — May 30, 2007 @ 4:53 pm"
For which you are in full attendance. LOL
May 30th, 2007 at 4:59 pmAnd the white house responds with a blistering critisism of the religous rights lack of tolerance...
...NOT!!!
May 30th, 2007 at 5:01 pm#11 Can we do that? Kick them out of the club, that is.
I'm getting tired of defending myself by having to say, "Yes, I'm a Christian but not a right wing nutjob. I'm a Democrat, dammit!"
May 30th, 2007 at 5:02 pmOh yeah: Rob the counrtry blind, and we'll look the other way, because blatant criminal activity is not a sign of moral failure. Refusing to force someone into social roles I think are appropriate is a sure sign that you really aren't trustworthy.
Give me a break you sniveling sow.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:04 pmBecause Jesus taught that women have fewer brain cells than men, so we are unable to function in a leadership capacity… Even over our own organizations (sarcasm).
Comment by unbelievable
Idiot bible scholar.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pmDamn, pardon the previous post, I didn't realize the statement was made by a man. In that case the last line should read:
So STFU you sniveling, no basis for comment, attention-seeking assnugget.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pmOh I don't know...I think there's a new catch-phrase in here, "homosexual game of house". Don't know what it means, but it sure sounds pejorative.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:07 pmIt's so poetically ironic that Dick Cheney is supporting lesbian lovers and thier little bundle of joy. And the nutjob religious right got him into office.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
How would we know what straight is without gayness?
Lesbians aren't afraid of a vagina.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:07 pmI wonder if Wolf Blitzer will follow up with Dick concerning this....
May 30th, 2007 at 5:09 pmI believe sectarian bigotry in the US is in the final throes...
May 30th, 2007 at 5:12 pmAnother Conservative stretch of 'Family Values'..
May 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pmFinding Dick Cheney in church would be about as easy as finding his vistor records.
The Picture should be captioned:
Thanks your votes you right wing Christian nutjobs, now move along and shutup.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:13 pmAfter quoting a post that ends with the tag "sarcasm" Flaco thought fitting to comment thusly:
Idiot bible scholar.
Comment by Flaco — May 30, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
Idiot blog reader.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:16 pmIdiot bible scholar.
Comment by Flaco — May 30, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
Why do you advertise yourself? You need to work on your self-confidence.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:19 pm"Can we do that? Kick them out of the club, that is."
I don't see why you couldn't. I mean, there have been other times in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic history when people have started "their own branches of the club, so why not bring your religion into the 21st century by getting rid of all the backwards medieval minded members.
"I’m getting tired of defending myself by having to say, “Yes, I’m a Christian but not a right wing nutjob. I’m a Democrat, dammit!â€
Comment by Kiki — May 30, 2007 @ 5:02 pm"
I'm sure it's still easier than defending Atheism against those folks :D But, seriously, I think if you guys would stand up to the crazy ones with us (since our goals are the same peace and love ones), then neither of us would have to defend our personal ideologies any longer. Just a thought...
May 30th, 2007 at 5:22 pm"Idiot bible scholar.
Comment by Flaco — May 30, 2007 @ 5:06 pm"
You're just jealous.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:23 pm"Lesbians aren’t afraid of a vagina.
Comment by ForTruth — May 30, 2007 @ 5:07 pm"
LOL. Speaking of... shouldn't Daryll have shown up by now? It IS a gay thread.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:26 pm"playing this homosexual game of ‘house"
"Homosexual House on the Prarie"- Wyoming
May 30th, 2007 at 5:27 pm,now there's a reality show I'd watch
Thanks for the latest proclamation from the judgemental, righteous, holier-than-thou immoral minority.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:28 pmI thought God, if there is one, is the only one to judge others. This high-and-mighty organization is one of many to attempt that function, while here on earth.
It's all about money and power, folks.
Don't be deceived. Religion is a good business!!!!!!!!
It’s about time the real bigoted religious right spoke up about this.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — May 30, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
I hear ya, brother.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:28 pm"After quoting a post that ends with the tag “sarcasm†Flaco thought fitting to comment thusly: "Idiot bible scholar."
Comment by KRank — May 30, 2007 @ 5:16 pm"
I'll bet you a beer that Flaco can't define 'sarcasm' without looking it up....
Hmmm... I might bet you another beer that Flaco can't use a dictionary... LOL
May 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm#20, I agree. But the phrase, “homosexual game of house," was more than pejorative, it was downright dehumanizing. The meaning behind it is clear: Gays and lesbians can't have families of their own.
Years ago, the bigots claimed that we (gays and lesbians) were just after sex and running from responsibility and so should be ostracized, criminalized, and institutionalized (we were crazy!). But as soon as we appear to "blend in" to "normal" culture we're declared public enemy #1 and unfit to be a part of "normal" culture.
It always has been Straight "culture" that has separated the LGBT communities from the rest of society, not the other way around. If our culture didn't make such a huge deal about it, it wouldn't be a huge deal to be a lesbian, gay man, or transgendered. No one wants to grow up feeling like society wishes you didn't exist.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:31 pm"It’s all about money and power, folks.
Don’t be deceived. Religion is a good business!!!!!!!!
Comment by celtic cynic — May 30, 2007 @ 5:28 pm"
In "Losing Faith in Faith" by Dan Barker he talks about how his retired not-wealthy parents gave money to one of the Gold Digging TV Reverends, and that the guy had millions of dollars just sitting in the bank, instead of using them to feed poor people and build medical facilities...
May 30th, 2007 at 5:34 pm"No one wants to grow up feeling like society wishes you didn’t exist.
Comment by CpnJustice — May 30, 2007 @ 5:31 pm"
That is why these people are inhumane. Anyone who makes another person feel ashamed for their sexual preference, skin color, gender, or other birth traits that they cannot control doesn't deserved to be called human.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pmFinally, a religious right Christian nutso shoots “straight†from the hip at a two-faced hypocritical right-wing nut cast named Dick Cheney.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pmREAD YOUR BIBLE AMERICA
"Ye though I say unto you, they shall raise up the least among them to the highest post and he shall appear as a monkee. The sheep shall follow and the lies shall flow like water from the sea. They shall believe his deceptions and follow him unto war with the wrong nation. And Cheney will shoot a guy in the face too."
Lobotomy 9:11
May 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pmWhy do Heather Poe and Mary Cheney hate america?
Why do Heather Poe and Mary Cheney want the terrorists to win?
Clinton had a baby out of wedlock with a lesbian too.
That is all.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:48 pmre #36, most of my post was trashed by TP. Most of it dealt with money-grubbing, holier-than-thou judgementalists. Don't know where the second paragraph came from.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pmYour thoughts on this, Lynne?
Please speak up.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm"And Cheney will shoot a guy in the face too.â€
Lobotomy 9:11
Comment by Heterodoxy — May 30, 2007 @ 5:39 pm"
Hilarious!
May 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pmun - I was just about to summon Daryll forth from his pit, you beat me to it...
May 30th, 2007 at 5:59 pm"Don’t know where the second paragraph came from.
Comment by celtic cynic — May 30, 2007 @ 5:50 pm"
The TP spam filter is quite retarded. They must have gotten it as a donation...
May 30th, 2007 at 6:00 pmI wonder why it took so long for the vile acid spew of the religious right to be unleased?
Yes chimpeach, I'd love to hear Lynne Cheney speak up about this attack on her daughter and grandchild.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:00 pm"I was just about to summon Daryll forth from his pit, you beat me to it…
Comment by RUCerious — May 30, 2007 @ 5:59 pm"
Maybe you should try it too... I think it takes three people typing his name to beetlejuice him here :D
May 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm"I’d love to hear Lynne Cheney speak up about this attack on her daughter and grandchild.
Comment by Zooey — May 30, 2007 @ 6:00 pm"
The fact that she won't will be potent ammunition against the trolls for the rest of the Bush/Cheney Regime's rule over America.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pmIt's probably been already said, but: Bennett and the Cheney's deserve each other. And may they all eventually meet with good ol' boy Jerry Falwell in Hell someday!
May 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pmgo f yourself Stephen Bennett.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pmEnjoy your base, Mr. Cheney. I suppose Mary has accepted her second-class citizenship by now, but how'd you like to be Cheney? Hell, Harry Truman once threatened to kick a music reviewer in the genitalia for giving his daughter's concert a bad review. You know Cheney wants to shoot Mr. I'm All Concerned about Women in the face or at least tell him to go f*ck himself, but the whole Bush admin is the wacko right's bitch.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:24 pmI thought I'd never ever ever see the day I defended Mr. Cheney. But this time I have to. Shame, shame, shame on the so called religious right for attacking Mary Cheney, her lover, the baby, and the Cheneys. These people have no decency at all. They would attack the man who has consistently stood with them and their bigoted ideas and now they attack his family. I know Cheney must be very upset at these guys. I hope he sicks the goon squad on them. The so called religious right wouldn't know Jesus if the was standing next to them. They are all about hate, racism, and classism. I certainly hope they like the heat because they like Hilter, Stalin, and a lot of other people will burn in Hell forever. The sad part about it is that at least Hilter and the other knew it. These fools think they are going to Heaven.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:33 pmI feel sorry for that poor child, stuck in the middle of this shitstorm -- and Heather Poe, whose position is most precarious.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:37 pmReply 51 has it right. I'm sure Mr. Cheney would like to drink a few beers and go hunting with these people. Then the next day he'll have someone call to notify us of the hunting accident which happened yesterday. In this case I wouldn't blame him for accidently shooting them in the face for attacking his daughter and her lesbian lover. Number 51 is also right about Mary being a second class citizen to the members of the Republican base. The Base, umm, where have I heard the word Base used to discribed an organization. Hey, isn't that what the word Al Queda means in Arabic? Yes it does, it means "The Base". I wonder why the Republican voters are also called "The Base", makes you wonder doesn't it?
May 30th, 2007 at 6:40 pmWell, if we can't get support to impeach him for real crimes, maybe this is our chance to get support to impeach him for supporting his gay daughter, and his grandchild.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pmIsn't it the Republic Party that screams about children needing to be raised in a "family?" Where is it written that a family has to consist of one male and one female? Or dont those myopic cretins get that?
May 30th, 2007 at 7:18 pmIsn’t it the Republic Party that screams about children needing to be raised in a “family?†Where is it written that a family has to consist of one male and one female? Or dont those myopic cretins get that?
Comment by Ben Dover
Wingnuts would rather see that child raised in an orphanage.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:22 pmI wonder if we'll hear Mary Cheney come out with both guns blazing in response to this "disgusting" attempt to use her private life for political gain?
May 30th, 2007 at 7:34 pmHas anyone commented on the irony of a freakin' dude being the spokesperson for CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA.
Not only don't they think they should be trusted with a choice, they don't think women should be trusted with a microphone.
Prof. G. E. Challenger
May 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pmBennett's comments just goes to prove how much of a lie the supposed ex-gay movement is.
They claim that they are focused only on those who have problems with their lgbt orientations. But if you look, you will find that Bennett, Alan Chambers and all of the rest want to make hell for those of us who ARE comfortable with our orientations.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:48 pmI'm not sure I understand this spokesMAN for Concerned Women of America. (BTW, what are they concerned about?)
There was another woman named Mary who gave birth to a child without a known father. That was 2000 years ago. And, although his step-father Joseph may have provided the child with a 'traditional' family, he seems to have dropped out of the narrative and he grew up mostly surrounded by women. It's true that he grew up to be slightly effeminate and hung out with a dozen transient men with no fixed abodes. There was no need to worry about his orientation as he is recorded in one Gnostic Gospel of giving another Mary (of Magdalene) a hearty kiss on the mouth. This Mary may or may not have been a woman of the streets, but she was soon his personal assistant and made all the arrangements for his entry into Jerusalem and his going away dinner.
You'd think this spokesMAN would celebrate the similarities between the birth of Mary Cheney's child and that child 2000 years ago. I hear that son turned out quite well. Perhaps this daughter might be the female messiah.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pmIs stephen bennent a woman? Or do women of this Woman's Organization have no voice?
Reminds me of "all the boys" gathered around for the signing of "women's internals" legislation .
rudepublicans have no world of their own. Their power fedish dictates that. Their male world, their war world.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:54 pmAnd the chickens come home to roost.
Let's see if Religious Right truly has the soul of their convictions and refuse to vote for the Republican Party next year!
Don't hold your breath!!
May 30th, 2007 at 10:11 pm"Perhaps this daughter might be the female messiah.
Comment by david — May 30, 2007 @ 8:30 pm"
Pantheists don't say such things... Just admit you're a Christian david. Your actions routinely demonstrate that you are not a free-thinker.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:12 pmOh Daryll, why has thou forsaken us?
May 30th, 2007 at 10:12 pmFlaco @ #18
May 30th, 2007 at 10:19 pmNo idiot studies any text. Scholars do.
Plenty of children live in households where neither of the parents is the real parent. Why are these parents that adopt children playing house?
and of course there is the entire remarrying scenario too and having step dads and moms.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:29 pmUnbelievable, you really are a caution. You were not amused by my tale. You do know the Messiah does not have to be a god or goddess. I'm just sorry Mary Cheney didn't name her daughter Laxmi. That would be sweet.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:34 pmOh Daryll, why has thou forsaken us?
Comment by unbelievable
He spent the whole morning insulting DRxJ and his wife, even though neither were here to defend themselves.
Daryll is exhausted from being a self-righteous assholierthanthou prick.
May 30th, 2007 at 10:51 pm> Has anyone commented on the irony
> of a freakin’ dude being the spokesperson
> for CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA.
Its not irony. Its right wing nutjobs creating fake groups to pretend they are an inclusive idealogy. Would you beleive that there is also a group called "concerned african americans" or something like that, whose board of directors is made up entirely of white guys? I think Al Franken talks about it in one of his books somewhere...
May 30th, 2007 at 11:10 pmDick will probably have the spokesman iced, if you get my drift.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:05 amLet's see whether Wolf Blitzer or any other journalist will quiz Cheney on this one.
May 31st, 2007 at 6:47 am#2 And what the hell is Stephen Bennett doing as spokesman for Concerned Women for America?
Comment by KRank — May 30, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
My thoughts exactly. He's a woman trapped in a man's body perhaps?
May 31st, 2007 at 12:30 pmBy this sad b.s. logic, all adoptive parents aren't really "parents". Why can't these people stay the hell out of other people's lives? It's none of his business who plays house... and in fact, I would say heterosexual couples do the most "playing" -- just look at the divorce rates in this country.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:27 pm