Satan freezes hell over himself: Cheney supports gay marriage

I think today might be Opposite Day, because Dick Cheney supports gay marriage.

"I think freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said. "As many of your know, one of my daughers is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought ot be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish."

Cheney believes that while gay marriage should be legal, it should be a matter of states' rights and not mandated by the federal government. But if Loving vs. Virginia is any indication of how marriage rights will be decided, the federal government may eventually set right what some states are bound to get wrong. (I'm looking at you, southern states.)

Now, I'd give Cheney a terrorist fist jab for his open-mindedness, but I don't think that capitulating to a progressive point of view because you've been "living with" your lesbian daughter "for a long time" gets him any points. Especially when the scales are already maxed out on "evil". Tolerance and acceptance are two different things, and while I hope that the Cheney family is an accepting one, I just don't see that happening. Still, this is the first time in a while that Cheney's not in the news for an enthusiastic endorsement of mauling kittens or something.