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Mary Cheney Talks About Her Family's Personal Stake In Marriage Equality Fight

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BuzzFeed - “This is an incredibly personal issue for me, one that couldn’t possible hit closer to home,” Mary Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, says in opposing a proposed amendment to ban same-sex couples in Indiana from marrying. Her sister, Liz Cheney, is running for Senate in Wyoming and opposes marriage equality. View Video › WASHINGTON — Mary Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, went to Indiana this week to make the conservative case for marriage equality as the state debates a proposed amendment to ban same-sex couples from marrying.Many political, business and education leaders in the state oppose the proposal, HJR-6, and Cheney's visit was a part of the effort against the measure. "I believe that all families — regardless of how they look or how they're made or where they live — that all families deserve to be treated with the same respect, dignity, legal rights and recognitions as every other," s

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