‘Dear Abby’ agrees with Cheney for the first time ever.
By on Oct 12th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
‘Dear Abby’ agrees with Cheney for the first time ever.
Today, CNN hosted “Dear Abby” author Jeanne Phillips, who recently publicly declared her support for gay rights and received the first-ever “Straight for Equality” award from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. “I guess I just have a sense of fair play,” Phillips told CNN. “I have some wonderful gay friends and I think they should be entitled to all the civil rights everyone else has.” Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/dearabbylgbt.320.240.flv]
CNN also showed Phillips a recent clip of Lynne Cheney saying that people “ought to be able to enter into the relationships they want” because it is a “free country.” Phillips responded, “I never thought I’d agree with the Cheneys on anything.”
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Phew...for a minute there I thought you were saying that she agreed with Darth Chaney. Glad that got cleared up!
October 12th, 2007 at 5:29 pmShe must be a moonbat, and therefore, her opinion can be safely ignored.
Is that how the thinking goes, Michael?
October 12th, 2007 at 5:34 pmNotice Lynne Cheney stops just short of saying that they should have the same rights and freedoms as the "Tab A -> Slot B" types.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:39 pmDick Cheney has, for the most part, been pretty silent on the subject of gay marriage -- never endorsing it, of course, but not engaging in the shrill "it will destroy the institution of marriage!" that we hear from the rest of the wingnuts. I would imagine that having a gay daughter in a committed monogamous relationship might affect his POV somewhat.
Dick certainly won't rock the GOP boat by overtly coming out in favor of gay marriage, but it doesn't seem to stop his wife (whose own POV is probably similarly affected by her daughter).
October 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm#2... umm wut?!
October 12th, 2007 at 5:55 pmIt's time for equality for all.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pmLive and let live. It's easy.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:35 pmCheney doesn't care about gays one way or the other. Gays don't affect world domination.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pmWow, something bad must have gone on here. The article says there are 70 comments and I only see 8.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pmComment by bilbobaggins — October 12, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Yeh, I noticed that, maybe it was troll spazz that got deleted...
October 12th, 2007 at 6:57 pmWow, something bad must have gone on here. The article says there are 70 comments and I only see 8.
Comment by bilbobaggins — October 12, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
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Wow. And in only 90 Min. Now it says 74, with only 9 showing.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pmBTW, (Off-topic)
Did you see where Rush in auctioning off the original letter from Harry Reid with 41 (Dem) signatures on eBay?
October 12th, 2007 at 7:02 pmDid you see where Rush.
Comment by richg — October 12, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
No, I would rather pee on a 220 volt electrified cow fence.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:07 pmgosh what happened here?????
i had a comment deleted earlier myself...i lost my temper on the FOX GIVES NOBEL TO PETRAEUS thread..it was just SO PREDICTABLE.
sorry, whomever i may have offended.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:12 pmi'll watch my language in the future.
FOX GIVES NOBEL TO PETRAEUS thread -GN
Thats what they want to do, say something controversial, and stupid, and when people start objecting, make is seem as if they are being unfairly attacked for their opinion.
I dont let words, such as those on FOX, anger me, ever.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pmWow. And in only 90 Min. Now it says 74, with only 9 showing.
Comment by richg — October 12, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
It counts all of the posts from the wingnut dorks that don't know they're banned!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pmNow, they will attack Phillips for her opinion, and she should do the same thing as the 28% and claim she is being attacked for her ideology in a free country, as Lynne Cheney said it is.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:25 pm“ought to be able to enter into the relationships they want†because it is a “free country.â€
I always suspected the Cheney's were hedonists.
This just proves it.
Don't leave your kids alone with these people there's no telling what they'd do to 'em.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:30 pmIt counts all of the posts from the wingnut dorks that don’t know they’re banned!
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 12, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
they're not banned.
they're just on the "ignore list".
October 12th, 2007 at 7:31 pmRepukians are for equal rights when it is their equal rights, not someone elses equal rights.
In other words - They are for Equal Rights before they were against them.
Buck Fush
October 12th, 2007 at 7:38 pmYou'd think the republicans would support gay marriage afterall most of the republicans in office are gay.
They could come out of the closet and be happy. No more toe tapping in the boys bathroom. No more arrests and toilet paper stuck to their shoes.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:54 pmNo censorship on my favorite blog. Just click my name.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pmJust click on "other" when publishing a comment. No password, no anything just freedom of speech.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:59 pmIf all homosexuals were to turn blue overnight, the rest of us would see that these people are people we've known all along. Our neighbors, our co-workers, members of clubs we belong to, and even members of our own families.
It's harder to deny rights to people we know and consider friends than it is to deny them to a group of faceless, distant individuals. Lynne Cheney apparently knows this. Good heavens -- if SHE can get a clue, why not the rest of us?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:08 pmrace condition wrote:
actually -- on the daily show of 10/10/07, mrs. lynne
cheney specifically said she opposes the [anti-gay-]marriage
amendment -- BUT. . . she also said she feels that
the united kingdom and spain aren't core to "american
interests" when she made the entirely specious claim
that there have been NO terror attacks since 9/11,
due to her husband, and his side-kick's, efforts
jon jacks THAT hangin' curve-ball right out of the yard!. . .
do watch! -- and, it is only a minute, ten seconds long!
October 13th, 2007 at 10:42 amHahahaha I wonder how many of those banned posted are from Daryll the self hating homo freaking out about gay marriage...
October 13th, 2007 at 11:12 pm#26 - Comment by Chocolate Jesus — October 13, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
I guess Daryll has too many other things going on to freak out ocer this post.
Tap, tap, tap. . . . .
October 16th, 2007 at 7:30 am