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Whether or not someone's family should be off limits is debatable; I do find it interesting, however, that Cheney is part of a non gay administration but does not enforce against that in his family.
But these, one's family, personal vs professional life, are rather philosphical points.
Ie, the old thing of "Professionally, I will prosecute you but personally, I agree with you." I cannot agree with such a stand because if my personal feelings contradict my profession, then I should not be in that profession in the first place.
Should one's family be off limits? In a perfect world, we might say yes but then again consider those who have been dropped from security work because a member of their family "comes from the wrong side of the (iron curtain) tracks". Is it really rational that they be excluded from security work? Some would say yes. After all, better safe than sorry.
Of course, here we aren't talking about someone who might be a security risk but we are talking about someone in a security position. If they support an offical policy of one thing but a personal policy of another, what's to say they might be in similar conflict in another issue?
It's all hypothetical, of course, ........... but we have denied people positions before for similar situations.
Finally, it's not out of line questioning if he's been in a governmental position before where such questions were asked of the opposing side ...... and he didn't stand up to stay, no, that's wrong, family is seperate. If that has been done, if he has stood on the side that has done it to the other side, well, what one does in the past has a way of coming around.
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("I will not have any man as part of my staff who cheats on his wife. If he lies to his wife, how do I know he will not lie to me?"--Army General, (wtte))
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