That’s what Daniel Blatt says in his latest non-response to my piece on the CPAC/GOProud kerfuffle.
To which I reply:
Wow, that’s really awful that the mainstream “gay left” (as Dan calls the great majority of politically aware gay people) never gave Dick Cheney credit for supporting marriage equality.*
On pretty much every other issue, though, Dick Cheney remains a lying, war-mongering, Constitution-subverting ghoul.
But he does support marriage equality! For the record, you guys! Because you probably hadn’t heard it before, because we never talk about it, because shhhhhhhhhhhh!
Done.
*A couple of the links are not gay lefties themselves, but are gay-supporting lefties. Why? Well, because I didn’t want to repeat any blogs/news sources, and once I had found at least one blog post commending Dick Cheney from every single gay lefty source in my Google Reader, I decided to fill up the rest with OTHER lefties giving Dick Cheney credit for being right about one thing in his entire life!
I commend Mr. Cheney for loving his gay daughter and I commend him for doing the right thing on this issue and saying it. Since I want this to be positive, I won’t comment on the other things he’s said.
That’s pretty much the only way you can keep it postive when speaking of Dick Cheney.
Everything else is pretty much, you know, gargoyle.
When did Dick Cheney actually support gay marriage? I don’t mean when he didn’t lock up his lesbian daughter, or disown her for having a girlfriend and a son with said partner. I mean actually speak out in favor of human rights when he was in a position to do something about it.
That’s what I thought.
He didn’t really do it when he was in a position to do something about it. He intimated as much while he was still vice president, and then said it explicitly once he was out of office.
But if you paid attention, there was palpable dissonance on the issue within the administration.