Talk about a family feud: Former vice president Dick Cheney's daughters are having a heated disagreement over same-sex marriage that's playing out on TV and Facebook.
Liz Cheney, who is running in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in Wyoming, repeated on Fox News Sunday that she is opposed to gay marriage and supports a "traditional definition of marriage." Her younger sister, Mary, is married to a woman and their father endorses same-sex marriage.
"This is just an issue in which we disagree," Liz Cheney said, adding in the Fox News interview that she is opposed to a constitutional amendment allowing gay marriage and supports health benefits for same-sex partners.
Mary Cheney responded to her sister on Facebook. "Liz — this isn't just an issue on which we disagree you're just wrong — and on the wrong side of history," Cheney posted, according to The New York Times. It's a sentiment she's expressed before, also on Facebook.
Mary Cheney's wife, Heather Poe, wrote in a separate, stinging Facebook post on Sunday that she was "very disappointed" by what she described as Liz Cheney's "offensive" views.
"Liz has been a guest in our home, has spent time and shared holidays with our children, and when Mary and I got married in 2012 — she didn't hesitate to tell us how happy she was for us," Poe wrote. "To have her now say she doesn't support our right to marry is offensive to say the least."
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Mary Cheney and Poe were married last June in the nation's capital and are the parents of two children.
Poe made a veiled reference in her Facebook post to Liz Cheney's move last year to Wyoming, after living in Virginia for years. "I can't help but wonder how Liz would feel if as she moved from state to state, she discovered that her family was protected in one but not the other," Poe wrote. "I always thought freedom meant freedom for EVERYONE."
Liz Cheney is challenging Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.
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