Now how will this baby grow up to function properly in society?

Mary Cheney, the vice president’s openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are “ecstatic” about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.

It’s a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. “The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild,” spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night.

Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father during the 2004 reelection campaign and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. Poe, 45, a former park ranger, is renovating their Great Falls home.

Isn’t this something that can destroy our society? I certainly expect the Christian right to start releasing statements condemning this news.

Oh wait. I almost forgot. We are talking about the group of double standards. The entire “practice what a preach” meme is non-existent when you talk about the Christian right (see – Ted Haggard, Pat Robertson, Mark Foley, etc., etc., etc.) Is there any wonder why they are in such turmoil now a days?

Hopefully this new child will show those who believe that same sex couples aren’t capable of raising children properly, that they are flat wrong. True I can’t be that optimistic. I got a sneaking suspicion that the excuse will be “they came from good stock”. Of course they can make that judgment without knowing the “stock” of any of the people they chastise. That is the double standard of the Christian right. Now I need to re-read my New Testament to see where it was Jesus said “treat others how you want them treated, not how you expect to be treated”, or “only you are entitled to happiness and riches in life, others are meant for nothing”.