Republican Family Values

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Atrios reports that Mary Cheney was not with the rest of the family onstage for the requisite display last night, though she was in the hall to hear her dad's speech. Diana Moon confirms and captures my feeling about it exactly: it's shameful. What kind of father lets his daughter 'volunteer' not to be seen as a member of her own family, so he won't have to be seen publicly consorting with a known lesbian?

I was going to say, if Jerry Pournelle can be a mensch about his lesbian daughter, so could Dick Cheney. But the truth is, although the family reports that Jerry coped well with Jennifer's coming out in private, I'm not so sure he's been showing much public pride since she left the military. And it's that public pride that's the sticking point so, um, nevermind.