Easier to Anhillate the Tribe than its Leader*

Drudge is running a big lesbo headline this afternoon. The actually article -- a report on an upcoming interview with Dick Cheney -- is actually quite light on the girl-on-girl, but Drudge knows what get's his readers all a twitter. Drudge reports:

In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN(Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father’s mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: ‘You’re my daughter, and I love you, and I just want you to be happy.’”

VANITY FAIR editor Todd Purdum reports that Mary Cheney tells her story in a voice very much like her father’s, and that she came out to her parents when she was a junior in high school, on a day when, after breaking up with her first girlfriend, she skipped school, ran a red light, and crashed the family car. Cheney writes that her mother hugged her, but then burst into tears, worried that she would face a life of pain and prejudice.

Proves my point that its hard to hate someone you know, especially someone you spawned. This is why coming out is so important. People's opinions of the sodomites and ... what do we call lesbians? ... change dramatically when they realize they are already friends with one, work with one, their doctor is one, their child is one -- especially their filthy rich, conservative mouthpiece child.

This isn't meant as a love letter to either Cheney. I hate Mary Cheney because she puts tax cuts before equal justice under the law. I hate her father because... well, he just scares me. But it does show that they are both human... well, human-esque.



*Not that I'm saying Mary Cheney is a Big Gay Leader. Granted, she tried to get a lot of us drunk while working at Coors, but that a Big Gay Leader doesn't make.