Forced To Be Tolerant; Dick Cheney and His Gay Daughter

YOU REMEMBER DICK CHENEY, of course. Vice President for eight years, under Bush. Extremely wealthy corporate oil executive. Extremeley conservative. Had several heart attacks; about a year ago he had a heart transplant, which seems to be working beautifully. Many people believe that Dick Cheney was the real decision maker in the Bush White House. Cheney the architect of Iraq and Afghanistan. Cheney the war monger. He has two daughters, Liz and Mary, who have a sibling disagreement. Liz, currently running for Congress from the Cheney state of Wyoming, conservative like her father, is opposed to gay marriage, and just about everything else gay, like her morally upright Christian, conservative, capitalistic materialistic imperialistic militaristic daddy. The usual conflict between traditional conservatism and modern reality. Mary is gay, and is married to another woman, and is a staunch advocate of gay marriage in particular, and gay rights in general, as you might suppose. How irksome for Dick and Liz, their deeply held values at odds with circumstance! They all seem to be civil about it, however, at least, in public. All this has put, as one might imagine, Mr Cheney in a rather, shall we say, precarious position, from which he cleverly, wisely runs, by never saying anything definitive on the obvious matter at hand. How many erstwhile American conservatives with traditional conservative moral values have been forced to reconsider their opposition to homosexuality and gay love, their intolerance of it, because and only because of the homosexuality of a very close loved one? The answer is; many. Dick Cheney, like all conservatives, was once once adamantly opposed to homosexuality because it was immoral, a sin. Then, under pressure, they decided it was a sickness, a mental illness, a perversion. Now, after half a century of being dragged, kicking and screaming, towards tolerance, they have given up the moral and mental illness crap, and accepted, at long last, gay people as civic equals. Now, they are having gay marriage forced down their throats. Dick Cheney has had it forced down his throat, hook, line, and sinker. So far the conservative community is swallowing..but is it digesting?