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Liz Cheney flip-flops on gay ‘marriage,’ now claims she opposes it (video)

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JACKSON HOLE, WY, August 30, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Liz Cheney , the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney , is telling voters in Wyoming she has changed her stance on same-sex “marriage.” Running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate , Cheney accused incumbent Republican Mike Enzi of lying about her record on marriage and abortion in a “push-poll.” Liz Cheney, left, with sister Mary “I am not pro-gay marriage,” Cheney claimed in a  press release  on Friday. “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.” That conflicts with her previous support for same-sex “marriage. In 2009, a reporter on MSNBC asked, “How do you feel about the California Supreme Court's decision [on Proposition 8], and what do yo think the Obama administration should do on the question of same-sex 'marriage'?” Liz Cheney replied, “We...

Ex-Gay becomes Christian

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NYTimes: One Saturday afternoon last winter, I drove north on Route 85 through the rolling rangeland of southeastern Wyoming . I was headed to a small town north of Cheyenne to see an old friend and colleague named Michael Glatze . We worked together 12 years ago at XY , a San Francisco-based national magazine for young gay men, back when we were young gay men ourselves. Though only a year removed from Dartmouth when he arrived at XY, Michael had seemingly read every gay book ever written. While I was busy trying to secure a boyfriend, he was busy contemplating queer theory, marching in gay rights rallies and urging young people to celebrate (not just  accept ) their same-sex attractions.  Michael was devoted to helping gay youth, and he was particularly affected by the letters the magazine received regularly from teenagers who were rejected by their religious families. “ Christian fundamentalists should burn in hell!” he told me once, slamming his fist on his desk. I had n...