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Cheney's daughter asked to step up
Web site urges the openly lesbian Mary Cheney to use her political ties to help same-sex couples
BY SUSANNAH ROSENBLATT
LOS ANGELES TIMES
February 25, 2004
Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, may be out of the closet, but one gay-rights group is trying to drag her into the spotlight.
Cheney's openly lesbian daughter is the target of a new Web site urging her to use her political visibility to protect the rights of homosexual couples. The 2-week-old site, www.DearMary.com, features virtual postcards written by visitors exhorting Mary to publicly oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
"We very much launched this as an effort of psychological warfare against the vice president," said John Aravosis, a Washington, D.C., political consultant and writer who helped create the site.
President George W. Bush yesterday said he supported such an amendment. Although Dick Cheney initially said during the 2000 campaign that gay marriage was at states' discretion, he told the Denver Post last month he "will support whatever decision [Bush] makes."
DearMary.com has received about 6,000 personal messages - both in favor of and against gay marriage - 25,000 visitors a day and $8,000 in donations.
"You could change the world, Mary," reads one letter posted on the site. "Won't you help? Haven't we suffered enough?"
DearMary.com is part of larger effort to fight a constitutional ban of same-sex unions, www.DontAmend.com, which was launched last summer and organized 24 rallies nationwide on Valentine's Day weekend.
Aravosis said at least 80 percent of the money raised from DearMary.com will be earmarked for purchasing issue advertisements, such as a prototype ad featuring Mary's face on a milk carton emblazoned with the words "Have You Seen Me?"
Aravosis and other organizers explain their reasoning on the Web site's home page: "As an open lesbian who has worked for years as a public advocate for gay civil rights, you are in a unique position to defend yourself and your community in this dire hour."
Mary Cheney, 34, who once worked for the Coors Brewing Co. as a liaison to gay and minority communities, is now working for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, which declined to comment on the site.
The Los Angeles Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw...,4012749.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
Web site urges the openly lesbian Mary Cheney to use her political ties to help same-sex couples
BY SUSANNAH ROSENBLATT
LOS ANGELES TIMES
February 25, 2004
Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, may be out of the closet, but one gay-rights group is trying to drag her into the spotlight.
Cheney's openly lesbian daughter is the target of a new Web site urging her to use her political visibility to protect the rights of homosexual couples. The 2-week-old site, www.DearMary.com, features virtual postcards written by visitors exhorting Mary to publicly oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
"We very much launched this as an effort of psychological warfare against the vice president," said John Aravosis, a Washington, D.C., political consultant and writer who helped create the site.
President George W. Bush yesterday said he supported such an amendment. Although Dick Cheney initially said during the 2000 campaign that gay marriage was at states' discretion, he told the Denver Post last month he "will support whatever decision [Bush] makes."
DearMary.com has received about 6,000 personal messages - both in favor of and against gay marriage - 25,000 visitors a day and $8,000 in donations.
"You could change the world, Mary," reads one letter posted on the site. "Won't you help? Haven't we suffered enough?"
DearMary.com is part of larger effort to fight a constitutional ban of same-sex unions, www.DontAmend.com, which was launched last summer and organized 24 rallies nationwide on Valentine's Day weekend.
Aravosis said at least 80 percent of the money raised from DearMary.com will be earmarked for purchasing issue advertisements, such as a prototype ad featuring Mary's face on a milk carton emblazoned with the words "Have You Seen Me?"
Aravosis and other organizers explain their reasoning on the Web site's home page: "As an open lesbian who has worked for years as a public advocate for gay civil rights, you are in a unique position to defend yourself and your community in this dire hour."
Mary Cheney, 34, who once worked for the Coors Brewing Co. as a liaison to gay and minority communities, is now working for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, which declined to comment on the site.
The Los Angeles Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw...,4012749.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
