Mary Cheney on Friday criticized her sister's assertions on gay
marriage.
In a Facebook post, Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of former
vice president Dick Cheney, said that Liz Cheney was “dead wrong”
on the issue.
Liz Cheney announced last month that she will be challenging
Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi in the Republican primary. Dick Cheney has
previously said that he supports Mary Cheney's marriage to Heather
Poe. Last year, the couple married in the District of Columbia,
which legalized gay nuptials in 2009.
“I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage,” Liz
Cheney said in a statement posted on her website. “I believe the
issue of marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in
the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the
people themselves.”
“For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the
issue of marriage,” Mary Cheney wrote in response. “Freedom
means freedom for everyone. That means that all families –
regardless of how they look or how they are made – all families are
entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as every
other.”
“It's not something to be decided by a show of hands,” she
added, urging readers to share her post. “Please like and share if
you agree.”
(Related: NOM's
Brian Brown questions Liz Cheney's claim she's not “pro-gay
marriage.”)