Vice President Dick Cheney, 2000:
“The fact of the matter is, we live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody,” Cheney said. “And I think that means that people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. It’s really no one else’s business in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard.
“The next step, then . . . is the question you ask of whether or not there ought to be some kind of official sanction, if you will, of the relationship. That matter is regulated by the states. I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that’s appropriate. I don’t think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.”
Cheney, today:
Dick Cheney . . . said Friday he would support a presidential push to ban same-sex marriage.
. . .
“[A]t this stage, obviously, the president is going to have to make a decision in terms of what administration policy is on this particular provision, and I will support whatever decision he makes.”
Too bad Cheney wasn’t so wishy-washy when he lead the administration’s push for invading Iraq.