It's nice to know that at least one high-ranking member of the Executive Branch actually supports gay marriage…

Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama. But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government…

"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. … But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."

I guess you really have to respect the guy's libertarian values. Whether it's the decision to get gay-married, the decision to torture somebody several hundred times, or the decision to create your own covert squad of assassins who report directly to you, the important thing is that it's your decision to make.

And that really is the American way.