Author: Gandalf GreyGandalf Grey
Date: Dec 7, 2006 11:53
> Sailors For Impeachment wrote:
>> MARY CHENEY'S PARTNER 'WILL HAVE NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HER CHILD'
>> UNDER VIRGINIA LAW:
>>
>> The Washington Post reported yesterday that Mary Cheney and her partner
>> of 15 years, Heather Poe, are expecting a baby. The right wing is already
>> on the attack. Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America told
>> reporters the pregnancy was "unconscionable," and that it was "very
>> disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring
>> into the world a child that will never have a father."
>>
>> Carrie Gordon Earll of the James Dobson-led Focus on the Family said,
>> "Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man
>> marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea."
>>
>> As residents of Virginia, Cheney and Poe will also face discrimination
>> due to state law. According to Equality Virginia, "While there are no
>> specific Virginia laws addressing the custody and adoption rights of gays ...
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