Lesbians Having Babies

Our friend Joe Sobran doesn't quite know what to make of Mary Cheney having a baby.

Everyone's trying to be terribly open-minded about it, of course, because this is, after all, the twenty-first century and nobody wants to sound like some old twentieth-century fuddy-duddy. ...

I'm such an old coot that I can still remember when unmarried women were sometimes embarrassed when they found out they were pregnant. Yes, it could happen in the best families, but, well, it really wasn't supposed to. When it did, it was an accident. You didn't expect to find out about it if it should happen to the daughter of the vice president of the United States. Think Alben Barkley. Heck, think Dan Quayle, or even Al Gore.

That was then, this is now. It wasn't an accident. Mary Cheney and her, er, spouse have chosen to have a child. Like, on purpose. It's a deeply personal decision, between a woman, her partner, and her turkey baster. You got a problem with that?

Actually, I do. Now I hate to sound like one of those stuffy old Druids of eld, and I'll be the first to agree that a "normal" person is probably someone you just don't know very well yet, but I still think we are all better off when we make a reasonable effort to be, or at least appear, more or less normal.

And darn it, lesbians having babies just isn't normal!!!