Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

From Mary Cheney’s interview with People magazine, when asked to comment about her position on same-sex marriage:

“I am in favor of legalized same sex marriage. I make it clear in [my] book I passionately disagree with President Bush on the issue of the Federal Marriage Amendment. But I also make it very clear that I had no doubt, even with that disagreement, that President Bush was the absolute best person to be leading us at this time in our country’s history. It would be great to have the luxury of being a one-issue voter, but I didn’t, and quite frankly, I don’t think our country does.”

Well said, Mary. I could not agree more; because God knows, quite apart from Bush’s endorsement of the Federal Marriage Amendment, there were plenty of other reasons not to vote Republican in ’04.