News
2007-04-06
It's a boy for
Cheney and Poe
Cheney expecting
a boy
Mary Cheney is
having a boy, her dad announced Wednesday during an
interview with
Mary Cheney is
having a boy, Vice President Dick Cheney announced
Wednesday during an interview with ABC News Radio.
The child will be
the vice president’s sixth grandchild and the first
child for Mary Cheney, 38, and her partner, Heather Poe, 45.
According to
Reliable Sources, a Washington Post
column, the vice president has dodged endorsing
same-sex parents’ legal rights on a national
level. “I think each state ought to have the
capacity to decide how they want to handle those
issues,” he said on the radio. “And I
obviously think it’s important for us as a
society to be tolerant and respectful of whatever
arrangements people enter into.”
Mary Cheney and
her partner currently live in Virginia, where in November
voters decided to ban same-sex marriage and deny unmarried
couples certain rights pertaining to children and
offspring.
In February, Mary
Cheney spoke at Barnard College in Manhattan, defending
her pregnancy and same-sex parenting.
"Every piece of
remotely responsible research that has been done in
the last 20 years has shown there is no difference between
children raised by same-sex parents and children
raised by opposite-sex parents,” she told the
crowd, according to Towleroad.com. "What matters is
being raised in a stable, loving environment."
President Bush
told People magazine that he thinks "Mary is
going to be a loving soul to her child. And I'm happy
for her."
According to
People, Cheney and Poe met when they were on
the ice hockey team during college in Colorado. (The
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