How DARE she have a life!

Much, much stupidity over Mary Cheney's announcement that she's pregnant.

Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expecting a baby in late spring, said Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for the vice president. CNN article.

Below are some quotes and my responses.

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America described the pregnancy as "unconscionable."

"It's very disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring into the world a child that will never have a father," said Crouse, a senior fellow at the group's think tank. "They are encouraging people who don't have the advantages they have."

Yeah! Who do they think they are, wanting to fulfill a basic human need, procreation, by having a baby they will, by all accounts, love dearly and take very good care of. We all know that there are no children in America without fathers, after all.

Also, if you don't have the same "advantages", you shouldn't be encouraged to have children. Unless, of course, you meet the minimum requirements of being a man and a woman, in which case, even if you're uneducated, dirt poor and without parenting skills, go nuts.

Carrie Gordon Earll, a policy analyst for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family, expressed empathy for the Cheney family but depicted the pregnancy as unwise.

"Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea," Earll said. "Love can't replace a mother and a father."

So all you widows or divorced women with babies had better get busy and remarry. It doesn't matter how much you love your children, even a drunken, abusive deadbeat dad is better than having no father!

Their own words, utterly divorced from reality, demonstrate their complete lack of compassion and common sense.

(According to the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, seventeen years ago, in 1990, an estimated 6 to 14 million children had a gay or lesbian parent and between 8 and 10 million children were being raised in a gay and lesbian household.)