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(Washington, D.C.) An angry Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday told a reporter that it was unfair to bring Mary Cheney, his lesbian daughter, into the debate about same-sex marriage.
In an interview with MSNBC Cheney was asked about his flip flop on gay marriage. Cheney now supports President George W. Bush's call for a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. But, during the 2000 campaign Cheney said that he would prefer to see states handle the issue of gay marriage.
When pressed about the apparent change Cheney repeated that he supports the president. When asked if that reflects his personal view Cheney would only say that he supports the president.
He was then asked if he had discussed the issue with his daughter Mary, at which point the Vice President grew visibly annoyed.
"One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up," he said. "I really have always considered my private - my daughters' lives private and I think that's the way it ought to remain."
Yet during the 2000 campaign the out Mary Cheney campaigned with her father. She currently is an aide in the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, but is not expected to publicly campaign with her father an aide to the vice president said.
Prior to joining her father's campaign in 2000 Mary Cheney worked for the Colorado Rockies and the Coors Brewing Co. where, among other duties, she worked on outreach to gays and lesbians. During the 2000 campaign the fact she is gay and has a committed partner became national news.
So far Mary Cheney has not commented on her father's new stance on gay marriage. Her silence has prompted a group fighting for same-sex marriage to launch the Dear Mary website complete with a milk carton bearing her picture in the space usually reserved for missing children.
"Vice President Cheney's remarks are nothing short of surreal," said John Aravosis, creator of DearMary.com and national co-chair of DontAmend.com
"Dick Cheney has no problem taking a slap at my gay family members in the US Constitution, but when the topic is lesbians in his own family, suddenly the vice president is a defender of the privacy rights of gays and lesbians. His statement reeks of hypocrisy."
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