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May 25, 2007
Quickie Link: Pride and Prejudice: Dick Cheney's Family Values
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By vanrozenheim
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When Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter gave birth to a baby boy this week, it reopened the debate on equality laws. So how does America's Vice-President reconcile his personal life with the conservative policies of the Bush administration? The family photograph could not be simpler. Proud, smiling grandparents cradling their new-born grandchild. But the grandfather is Dick Cheney, the American Vice-President, and the power behind the throne of what has been among the most socially conservative administrations that America has known. And the child - weighing in at 8lb 6oz - is the son of Cheney's daughter, Mary, a lesbian who has been in a 15-year relationship with her partner, Heather Poe, a former park ranger.
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