Mary, Mary

[smartnsassy]

Lynne Cheney gets quite contrary about John Kerry’s reference to her lesbian daughter Mary in the presidential debates, but what’s the fuss over mentioning something that everyone already knows? Could it be that Mrs. Cheney has a closet of her own she needs to come out of?
By Anne Stockwell
An Advocate.com exclusive posted October 14, 2004

“We’re all God’s children,” said John Kerry during last night’s final presidential debate, prompting Lynne Cheney to thunder, “What a cheap, tawdry political trick!” Am I oversimplifying? Not really, unless you count the fact that Kerry dared to say out loud that Mary Cheney is a lesbian who probably feels that her sexual identity is just part of who she is.

Horrors!

This morning the airwaves are full of faces sputtering, How dare Kerry actually voice what we all know? How dare he mention the elephant in the room? We can’t even pretend this elephant was in the closet. Long before she was working full-time for her dad, Mary Cheney was earning a handsome living as the gay liaison between Coors Brewing and the GLBT community. Mary’s dad has been acknowledging her sexuality on the campaign trail. And after Dick Cheney debated John Edwards last week, Mary—as well as her partner, Heather Poe—came out onstage with the rest of the Cheney family.

I mean, Mary Cheney’s out, folks. So how could Lynne Cheney conceivably be ashamed to hear her daughter spoken of in a positive light, by John Kerry or anybody else?

Lynne Cheney is a brilliant woman and not, I would imagine, privately drawn to faux-scientific malarkey like creationism and reparative therapy. And, bless her, Mary Cheney buries the needle on the gaydar. One look at Mary, and you know this kid was different from birth. For some lesbians, maybe, it’s nurture. But it’s nature for Mary Cheney.

So you have to figure Lynne Cheney’s lashing out at Kerry comes from one of two guilty places—one sad, the other ugly. Despite what her educated mind tells her, does Lynne, like so many of her generation, feel that she and Dick failed somehow, and that’s why Mary likes girls? Does she secretly fear that she, Lynne, carried the sapphic DNA?

Or are the guilt and anger fresher than that? Is it that Lynne Cheney herself was outed last night—as a mother who’s spent a long career putting her daughter second to her own political advancement?

Whatever the ingredients, Lynne was angry last night because she was ashamed. Unlike her husband, Lynne missed the chance to stand up openly for her child. The nation knows it.

And Mary knows it.

http://advocate.com/html/stories/925/925_debate.asp

 

[Weird Harold]

By Anne Stockwell
An Advocate.com exclusive posted October 14, 2004

You forgot Ms Stockwell's qualifications for her psychoanalysis of Lynne Cheney.

Stockwell is senior arts and entertainment editor at The Advocate.

Shemay be a a very fine arts and entertainment editor and she's is entitled to expres her opinion.

Forgive me if I doubt her qualifications as a mind reader and/or psychoanalyst.

 

[LustyLovers]

Politics are killing us this year... sigh

 

[Guest]

 

[TheEarl]

SNS: I think the thing that rankled with Mrs Cheney was the fact that John Kerry brought in Mary's sexuality, not to back up his point about gay rights, but to point out the hypocrisy of her father's anti-gay opinions. He could have named any lesbian. It was a cheap trick because it brought a family member into a discussion as a stick to beat his opponent with. Very effective one though, cause the fact that he mentioned her sexuality confuses the issue and makes any protest look like... well, like this.

The Earl