But at a vice presidential debate in 2000, Cheney was asked, "Should a male who loves a male and a female who loves a female have all the constitutional rights enjoyed by every American citizen?"
Cheney responded, "People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. It's really no one else's business, in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard."
He added, "I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that's appropriate. I don't think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area. I try to be open-minded about it as much as I can and tolerant of those relationships. ... (I) wrestle with the extent of which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into."
During his 2000 campaign, Bush was also against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Read my lips =) However, conservatives have pressed for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage since last June, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law against sodomy - and recent events in Massachussetts and California by activist judges and so-called sinners have fuelled the fire.
As an aside, they should outlaw political sodomy. I feel screwed by any politician, regardless of their political affiliation =)
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