Mary Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant with her second child, due in mid- to late-November. Cheney confirmed her pregnancy to the Web site True/Slant, which first reported it.
Cheney and her longtime female partner, Heather Poe, will raise the baby along with her 2-year-old son, Samuel David Cheney. She has never disclosed the paternity of either of her children.
After the baby is born, Mary Cheney will take maternity leave from the communications firm she's worked for, and then start a new consulting firm with her sister, Liz Cheney.
Though Dick Cheney is well known as a social conservative, he spoke in favor of gay marriage in June at the National Press Club:
"As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. . . . The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that . . . historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled."
After Mary Cheney's first child was born in March 2007, conservative James Dobson of Focus on the Family wrote a critical commentary in Time magazine titled "Two Mommies Is One Too Many."
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