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March 30, 2005
Mary Cheney is writing a book, presumably about life as a political target. I hope Mary explains what part of "family values" the Republican Party hoped to portray in this 2004 Republican National Convention Cheney family photo where both her and her partner were hidden backstage from public view.
Let's be honest. It wasn't Democrats that forced Mary and her partner to be excluded from posing with her own family at the 2004 Republican National Convention. It was the party's radical evangelical base and the party's divisive platform that targeted Mary Cheney and continues to divide gays and lesbians from our families, our churches and our country.
I hope Mary talks about how it feels to see her party target her by pandering to its demonizing evangelical base while targeting the United States Constitution with disgraceful discriminatory amendments.
I hope Mary talks about the values the Republican Party ought to aspire to and challenges those radical voices whose divisive agenda is strangling the Republican Party.
Vice President Cheney's youngest daughter loathed being a gay GOP "poster girl" or known as his "lesbian daughter" in last year's presidential race.But, with a memoir coming out next year, it can't hurt.
Mary Cheney, 35, on Tuesday signed with Bush strategist Mary Matalin's conservative imprint at Simon & Schuster to pen a book on being "a political target for the other side," she said in a statement.
Besides memories of working on her dad's campaigns since age 8, the former Coors executive will finally respond to Democratic nominee John Kerry, who raised her homosexuality.
"She never wanted to be the poster girl ... for gay issues," Matalin said. "She doesn't exist to be the lesbian daughter of the vice president."
[Cheney's gay daughter to write book on being `political target' - Journal Gazette - 03-30-05]
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