The Former Vice President Dick Cheney stated on the conference that he supports gay marriage, but the issue should be decided by the state governments, not the federal government.
Dick Cheney is one of the prominent conservatives out there, but her daughter is a lesbian.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/ap_on_re_us/us_cheney
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Comment By Taka Laka:
I never thought that Phantom of the White House will ever support gay marriage. There was the time where an interviewee asked Dick Cheney the same question, but he refused to answer it stating that such a question is rude. Indeed, the question was rude to ask Mr. Cheney, and since he was still Vice President at the time, answering such a question would have been fatal to his political career by potentially losing his supports from the conservatives.
Now, Mr. Cheney is a free man where he can speak out for his personal cause without worrying about losing any public support.
Public now knows that even Mr. Cheney can't deny her daughter's rights. However, to be fair with anti-gay marriage group, he proposed this statement in middle ground where the decision should be made among states instead of the federal government.
In some sense, I agree with him on state to state issue, but ultimately, the federal government will most likely to legalize gay marriage through out America. If the decision were made on state to state bases, there will be more legal issues because gay couples can get married at legalized state and move back to their home states and so on.
By the way, I call Mr. Cheney "the phantom of the White House" because he definitely was the most powerful Vice President on the history of the U.S., and he manipulated George Bush fairly well.
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