Liz Cheney Ousted from Congress, Leaves Mixed Record on LGBTQ+ Issues
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, lost Tuesday’s Republican primary and will not retain her seat, leaves a mixed record on LGBTQ+ issues.Cheney, a staunch conservative and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has won the praise of many liberals for standing up to Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election being stolen from him and for her service on the committee investigating the insurrection by his supporters at the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021. But that doesn’t mean her politics were anywhere near progressive.Cheney did make one notable about-face, though, coming out for marriage equality last year.
She did so in an interview with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes in September, mentioning her sister, Mary Cheney, a lesbian who is married with children.
Their father had voiced support for marriage equality years ago, but the sisters had a very public feud over the issue in 2013, with Liz in opposition to equal marriage rights.“I was wrong,” she told Stahl. “I love my sister very much.
