Liz cheney gay marriage

Liz cheney gay marriage, Mary Cheney, the openly lesbian daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, posted on Facebook on Friday night that her sister, who is running for the Senate in Wyoming, is “dead wrong” to oppose same-sex marriage.

Liz Cheney, who is primarying GOP Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.) next year, released a statement this week saying: “I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage.”

“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,” Cheney added.

Cheney issued the statement after a telephone poll conducted with Wyoming voters raised the question of where she stood on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Mary Cheney married her long-time partner Heather Poe last year in the District; their father announced in June 2009 that he backed same-sex marriage, though he thought it was a decision best left to the states rather than the federal government.

“For the record, I love my sister, but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage,” Mary Cheney wrote on Facebook, urging readers to like or share the post. Noting that “Freedom  means freedom for everyone,” she added, “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.”