Liz Cheney tells ‘60 Minutes’ she was ‘wrong’ in condemning gay marriage, has reconciled with sister Mary

Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney, who notoriously spoke out against same-sex marriage back in 2013, has now changed her mind.

“I was wrong. I was wrong,” she told “60 Minutes” anchor Leslie Stahl in an interview that aired Sunday. She said she has reconciled with her sister Mary, whose spouse is a woman. “I love my sister very much.”

In this July 27, 2021 file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., listens to testimony from Washington Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Bourg/)

Their father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, declared his support for same-sex marriage in 2009.

“It’s a very personal issue – and very personal for my family,” Liz Cheney said. “I believe that my dad was right. And my sister and I have had that conversation.”

Cheney recounted being at an event a few nights earlier and hearing a young transgender woman say she does not feel safe.

“This is an issue that we have to recognize you know, as, as human beings, that we need to work against discrimination of all kinds in our country, in our state,” Cheney said. “Nobody should feel unsafe. Freedom means freedom for everybody.”

Until now, she had been pretty definitive, even though her stance created a rift in her family.

“I love my sister, and I’m not going to say any more about it because of my, just my respect for her,” Cheney told The Washington Post in 2016. “My views on it are clear.”

Nonetheless, she did vote against the Equality Act in February, which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, noted The Washington Post.

Cheney’s initial opposition had come amid her senatorial primary campaign against former Sen. Mick Enzi (R-Wyo.), though she ended up withdrawing. At the time she said she and her sister “disagree,” though Mary replied on social media, according to The Hill, “You’re just wrong – and on the wrong side of history.”

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