The Cheney sister squabble over gay marriage in the family broke out full throated this week, and it was clear from the beginning this blood feud was about way more than a difference of opinion, as Liz Cheney tried to make it. Asked about same-sex marriage on Fox News, Liz, running for the Senate in uber-conservative Wyoming, said that she opposed it, and when asked about her lesbian sister's marriage to her partner, Liz added that it was “just an area where we disagree.” But it was way more than that--it was a repudiation of her sister's life. Politics and recipes for the stuffing for the turkey are areas of disgruntlement and disagreement. But when someone in your own family criticizes the very core of your being, it's a way more than "an area where we disagree." Adoption falls in this same category. For first mothers like Jane and I, who are out and involved first mothers, who speak and write about the longterm--
