This isn’t some steamy debate thread. This isn’t me telling the world to fuck off. This is just me shaking my head in disgust and pitting the Bush administrations blatent disrespect for human rights.
I bring you Lynne Cheney’s “Sisters” (purchase), “The novel of a strong and beautiful woman who broke all the rules of the american frontier,” written in 1981.
I mean, come on… 
So, Lynne Cheney writes a* really* tacky Mills and Boon-type novel back in 1981, and this is meant to be a reflection of the current Bush admin attitude towards human rights?
I mean, come on… :rolleyes:
Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian and his wife write’s lesbian fantasy. My point is that this isn’t a policy issue. It’s a family issue. It’s a personal issue. It’s a people issue. It’s not “the gay people over there in the corner”. These are real people that are really a part of our lives and they deserve the freedom to do what they want. Any two people should be able to come together and enjoy the same freedoms and benefits as any other two people.
This Administration…haha… :mad:
I’m aware that Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian (from the current crop of pit threads dealing with the issue, who could* fail* to be aware :rolleyes: ), but I still cannot see how LYNNE Cheney writing a fantasy novel about women loving each other should have any bearing on policy initiatives of the sitting government (or the opposition for that matter).
What the fuck difference does it make WHAT Lynne writes about?
And just by-the-by, I am a semi-rabid socialist who finds just about all conservative ideals repugnant.
But I still can’t see what you are bitchin’ about. :wally
OH COME ON! You know that if Cheney’s wife is having lesbian fantasies then Cheney is probably having them too…
So… the idea here is that writing a novel featuring a (surprisingly) positive portrayal of a lesbian couple, somehow means that Lynne Cheney is harboring sexual fantasies about her gay daughter?
Please, for the love of all that’s Holy, tell me I’m totally misunderstanding you here, because I do not want to believe that I’m sharing this world with someone as stupid as you
Actually dude, you just completely made all those connections yourself. I guess you can call it a freudian slip?
Back atcha’ brother.
Okay then… what the fuck are you talking about? You’re not making any sense. Are you angry at Lynne Cheney for having lesbian fantasies? Are the Cheneys too homophobic for you, or not homophobic enough? Seriously. What the hell?
In case you don’t follow politics or modern religion, the Bush Administration believes that homosexuals are sinners and do not deserve the same rights as their equal heterosexual equals.
We all know that WhiteHouse.org is a parody site, right?
Huh, thanks alterego, I should’ve clicked on the Amazon link. This is interesting.
Eminently pitable. So… it’s the hypocrisy angle you’re gunning for, here?
Yeah, dude, I’ve got the clear picture about what the Bush Administration holds dear to their quaintly regressive hearts, but I DON’T see what Lynne Cheney’s soft-erotic writings have to do with any of that.
Can you help ease my Antipodean ignorance here?
And what, exactly, is the Vice President’s wife supposed to do about this? Last time I read the Constitution, the VPs wife had zero authority to do anything as far as setting the policy of the Administration. Has there been an amendment to the Constitution changing this?
So she banged out some cheezy lesbian porn, big fuckin’ deal. At least it wasn’t the nutbag uberconservative crap that Marilyn Quayle spewed out.
Or maybe you’d prefer if Lynne Cheney was another Anne Coulter. I dunno. Because it seems to me that with the Cheneys being sympathetic to homosexuals, they’re probably slowing down a lot of Bush’s efforts to strip homosexuals of their rights.
I said it above. It’s not a policy issue it’s a people issue. And that’s what I have demonstrated. The only responsibility the government has here is to tell us that we are all equal and give us all equal rights.
But as Tucker reiterated, Lynne is not a member of the guvmint.
What is it that you have demonstrated again?
:rolleyes:
That he doesn’t know what Antipodean means;)
I demonstrated that this is a people issue and a family issue. Not a policy or government issue. The Bush Administration is outraged because both of our beloved John’s have used Cheney’s daughter as a political platform. I agree with them that it is none of their business. However, this political platform is a monster of their own creation because they insist that peoples private lives are a policy issue and not a private people issue meant to stay behind doors and in families.
I reiterate, the government’s only responsibility in this situation is to tell us we are equal and make the law reflect as much. I hope this is starting to click.
I have a very good friend whose nickname is Antipodes. I have another good friend whose name is Webster 