A Material “Selfish Hedonist”

“I think the American people deserve to know he is willing to sell out his daughter for votes. It says something about his characters”

Mary Cheney, 35, is one of the two Vice President Dick Cheney's daughters. An open lesbian, Mary is a slightly awkward reality for a family identified with conservatives family values.

Republican candidate for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, Alan Keyes, described homosexuality as “selfish hedonism” and confirmed Mary Cheney as a “selfish hedonist” by definition during an interview with a radio station.

Mary held a public role as her father's assistant in the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

After her father became a veep, Mary joined the gay-friendly Republican Unity Coalition and gave speeches encouraging the Grand Old Party, US Republican political party, to reach out to women, minorities and gays.

“We can make sexual orientation a nonissue for the Republican Party, and we can help achieve equality for all gay and lesbian Americans”, she said in an April 2002 statement.

Mary also helped the GOP recruit gay voters during the 2002 midterm elections.

DearMary.com is a news web site targeting Mary to pressure her to use her influence inside the Bush administration. The site calls Mary out for being “silent since her father endorsed anti gay constitutional amendments making her and millions of Americans second class citizens”.

Within an hour of its launch on Feb. 13, the site attracted 100 emotional letters pleading with her to weigh in against a constitutional amendment. In the letters on the site, gays have a lot of hope that Mary would stand by them. The community believes that Mary, as an open lesbian who has worked for years as a public advocate for gay civil rights, has a unique position to defend herself and her gay community.

But when Mary joined the 2004 campaign last year as director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, she quit the coalition and seemed to fade into her own undisclosed location.

Mary Cheney has answered the call by running anti gay dad's re-election campaign in exchange for 100,000/year.