It's a boy for
Cheney and Poe

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 Advocate)