Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney openly acknowledged that he had a dyke for a daughter. Apparently blood sometimes runs thicker than politics, because I'm guessing that's what�led Dick to diverge from the anti-gay-marriage Republican party line and state that "people ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to." Yeah, there's just something about being related to, knowing, or coming into any kind of contact with a gay person that makes you realize how homophobic, ridiculous, and moralistic anti-gay folks really are! But Cheney's solution to the gay marriage debate was to leave it up to the states to decide, which doesn't really do much to further the cause. Can you imagine if we were in the middle of the civil rights movement and the government decided to leave the question of the right to vote up to the states? I'm guessing there�would still�be states where you couldn't vote if you were black.But I applaud the vice president for stirring things up for his party, and so close to the Republican Convention. He's being honest at least. He's got a daughter whom he clearly loves, supports and wants to be happy, and is living proof that "family values" come in all shades. So I'm bestowing on our vice president his very own Commando harness, for taking on his commander in chief on this issue and being right on the money in support of his daughter.