In a 2005 interview with The New York Times, Bush said: “I believe children can receive love from gay couples but the ideal is — and studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman.”

Now, Bush tells People magazine:

I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I’m happy for her.

[…]

Mary Cheney is going to make a fine mom and she’s going to love this child a lot.

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