HRC launches Cheney ad: "What if it was your child, Mr. President?"
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The Human Rights Campaign launched an ad featuring Vice President Cheney that poignantly asks Federal Marriage Amendment supporters, "What if it were your child, Mr. President?" At a campaign rally Aug. 24, the vice president restated his position that states should handle the question of marriage, signifying his opposition to putting discrimination in the Constitution.
At an Aug. 24 rally today in Davenport, Iowa, Vice President Cheney made the following comments, according to the Associated Press, "Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue our family is very familiar with. With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone … People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to. The question that comes up with the issue of marriage is what kind of official sanction or approval is going to be granted by government? Historically, that's been a relationship that has been handled by the states. The states have made that fundamental decision of what constitutes a marriage."
God is Not a Republican. Or a Democrat.
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