Between one man and one woman

For a few moments mid afternoon before new posts went up, there we were at the top of Pajamas Media's frontpage (above), just below the totally awesome Mary Cheney (above) -- "daughter of two of the most powerful and significant figures on the world stage today" -- in an exclusive interview with PJM editor Gerard Vanderleun.

"One of the things I love most about the American people is we have this innate belief in fairness," Mary Cheney tells Gerard Vanderleun in an exclusive Pajamas Media interview on the occasion of the publication of her new book, Now It's My Turn. While GW hyperventilates that life as we know it will end unless the nation passes a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as "between one man and one woman," we're inclined to agree with Mary's more measured assessment:

Gerard Vanderleun: In the discussion of the issue of gay rights, you've been wittingly and unwittingly at the epicenter of this issue. Maybe you could talk for a minute about your thoughts of where we are right now today as a nation on the issue of gay rights and where you think we should be going.

Mary Cheney: What I think I say in the book is that it's not a Republican or Democratic issue so much as it is a generational one. That if you look at most polling on issues of gay rights or gay marriage, what you'll see is there's a direct correlation between a person's age and their support for gay rights or for gay marriage. The younger a voter, the more likely they are to favor legalized same-sex marriage. And what that tells me is that as time passes, as younger voters replace older voters, you're going to see -- and you already have seen -- a movement toward greater acceptance of the idea of true equality for gays and lesbians . . . It's probably going to happen much faster than most people think. Now whether it's called marriage or civil unions, I don't know.

Click here to listen to the whole thing.

Comments

[miss kelly]

The constitutional amendment seems like a bad idea which would never get taken seriously by the Senate anyway. Mary Cheney is correct that young people are more open to gay marriage. Society as a whole is incredibly more accepting of gay people in a mere 20 years. But young people are a lot more liberal about all issues, and they may become more conservative as they get older. There's no reason to think that their opinions might not also shift about society recognizing and protecting the value of the institution of marriage between one man and one woman.