Gephardt's gay daughter: Chrissy Gephardt is revving up to solicit gay and lesbian votes for her dad's presidential bid. (Campaign 2004).Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, never acknowledged her sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. during her father's campaign in 2000 and has said little, if anything, about it since his election. But now Dick Gephardt's lesbian daughter, Chrissy, is preparing to take an active--and openly gay--role in her father's bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. The Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant. Hill newspaper Roll Call reported May 8 that Chrissy Gephardt Chrissy Gephardt is the daughter of 2004 American presidential candidate and Missouri representative Dick Gephardt. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1995 and is currently a student at Georgetown University Law Center. , a Washington, D.C., social worker who assists female survivors of trauma and abuse, "will be far more aggressive than Mary Cheney Mary Claire Cheney (born March 14, 1969) is the second daughter of Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, and his wife, Second Lady Lynne Cheney. Early life Cheney is the daughter of current Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne. in soliciting gay and lesbian votes for dear old dad." And in another departure from Cheney's 2000 campaign, this time "dear old dad" isn't shying away from talking openly about his daughter. Gephardt's campaign Web site reports that Chrissy lives with her partner, Amy, and features a photo of Amy with the rest of the Gephardt family. "Dick loves his daughter very much, and they are a very close family," Gephardt campaign spokeswoman Kim Molstre told The Advocate. "He hopes she will take a very active role in his campaign for president." What remains to be seen, however, is how much having an openly gay daughter can help the congressman from Missouri in a campaign in which nearly all the Democratic front-runners are jostling for the title of "gay-friendliest"--and if his daughter's openness will have any effect on Gephardt's position opposing equal marriage rights for gay men and lesbians. During a May 3 debate in Columbia, S.C., Sen. John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. of
Massachusetts and Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. sparred over who was the bigger supporter
of civil unions. "My position in fact is stronger than Governor
Dean's," Kerry said of the former Vermont governor, who signed
the nation's first and only civil unions law when he was in office.
Gephardt also supports civil unions. But he has so far drawn the line at equal marriage rights for gay people, telling The Advocate in 2000, "I think we can make progress on all the legal questions facing same-sex couples A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. .... Down the road, who knows? Maybe we will make progress [on marriage tool." |
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