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Dick Cheney Defends Daughter Liz in Male lover Marriage Family Feud
Former Vice President Dick Cheney waded into a spat between his daughters, Liz Cheney and Mary Cheney, who is openly gay, saying that Liz's compassion to her sister shouldn't be used to "distort" her position supporting "traditional marriage."
One daytime after the two sisters appeared to take their disagreement public, Cheney and his wife, Lynne, issued a expression defending their daughter Liz, who is running for Senate in Wyoming.
"Liz has always believed in the traditional definition of marriage," the Cheneys said in a declaration today. "She has also always treated her sister and her sister's family with love and respect, exactly as she should acquire done.
"Compassion is called for, even when there is disagreement about such a fundamental matter and Liz's many kindnesses shouldn't be used to distort her position," they added.
The utterance made no bring up of Mary Cheney, 44, or her wife, Heather Poe.
READ: Liz Cheney Says She Is 'Not Pro-Gay Marriage'
Liz Cheney, who is challenging the Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming in 2014, said on Fox News Sunday that she and her sister "disagree" on the issu
What I Didn’t Know About Having a Queer Daughter
I’m a cisgender (Describes people who have a gender identity which is traditionally reflection to “match” their assigned sex. For instance, someone who was assigned male at birth who identifies as a man. Often used in relation to transgender.)heterosexual (Someone who is only or mostly emotionally and sexually attracted to people of a different sex or gender than they are themselves.) person married to another cisgender and heterosexual person. I own two daughters: one is queer (In the context of sexuality, a broad term for sexual orientation that can describe any number of orientations which are not heterosexual. People who distinguish as queer may be bisexual or pansexual, gay or lesbian, questioning, asexual or more.) and one is het. My older daughter came out (Short for ‘out of the closet’. When someone’s LGBTQ+ persona is known to other people.) when she was in middle school.
This essay is not about her, though.
It’s about me: a parent, “the mom.”
Thinking support to my available days, my experience was not very binary (Made up of two things or parts; a system with only two possible options or parts.). I had a
Should Christians “Disown” Gay Sons and Daughters?
From time to time I hear about Christian parents disowning, cutting off, or permanently shunning a son or daughter who adopts a gay lifestyle. Is that the right thing to do? Is this a requirement of biblical faithfulness?
I believe the basic answer is “no.” It is not the biblical and right thing to do. And I believe that’s the case whether or not the son or daughter professes to be a Christian.
To be clear, I believe the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin. And a person who chooses to pursue homosexual activity cannot endure in good standing in a local church, as with anyone living in any significant and unrepentant sin.
But God established one set of institutions for all creation, and another set for his new covenant people. And these separate institutions impose separate obligations on those of us who belong to each. The parent-child bond, like the husband-wife bond, God established for all humanity, whether or not one belongs to a church. And these obligations subsist irrespective of church membership. Our church relations depend upon the promises of the new covenant and the authorization of the keys of the ki
“You want to shove those words back in and put the lid on. But you can’t. Your child is gay. This goes against everything you’ve been taught. It was not what you had in mind, and you instantly wonder where you went wrong.”
When you get a parent, you realize to expect the unexpected. But for many Christian parents, nothing can plan them to hear that their beloved child is gay. This is the child you have cradled, spoon fed mashed bananas, and dreamed a stunning future for. How could this be? What will the church say? What will your friends say? What does the future hold? You can’t even get your head around this.
If you are a Christian parent, family member or friend to whom your loved one has come out as homosexual or lesbian, then this is for you.
I call on you to sit down, relax, maybe get a cup of tea, and soak in what I’m about to tell you. My hope is to guide you as we walk for a bit through this maze of confusion, to help you find your way to wholeness. In many Christian circles, this is not good news, and you may begin to spiral into reflection and self-searching. We’ll get to that. But at the bottom of it all, this is not about you. Most parents’ first mistake is to mak