Mary Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, together with her long time partner Heather Poe, are expecting their second child. Being a lesbian couple, they have been attracted many attention when she was announced she was pregnant with her first child in late 2006. And today,the pregnant mom is has been expecting four months ago and plan to leaving her work as principal for maternity leave.
Social conservative pundit and founder of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, penned a controversial op-ed for Time magazine called “Two Mommies Is One Too Many,” opining Cheney’s decision to start a family:
“With all due respect to Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father. That is not to say Cheney and Poe will not love their child. But love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development. The two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy–any more than the two most loving men can be complete role models for a little girl.”
Despite her sexuality, Cheney has remained a conservative voice and supporter of her father’s campaigns, though she has all but disappeared from the public view since 2004 — even staying silent on the Bush Administration’s Federal Marriage Amendment to the chagrin of gay rights groups.
Cheney and Heather are parents of two years old son, Samuel David Cheney.
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