Posted on 02/26/2005 1:27:31 PM PST by srm913
Republican disowns lesbian daughter
Gary Younge Saturday February 26, 2005
Guardian When the leading Republican and rightwing pundit Alan Keyes was asked what he thought of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of the US vice-president, he called her "a selfish hedonist". If his own daughter came out as a lesbian, said Mr Keyes, he would say the same thing.
So when Mr Keyes' only daughter, Maya Marcel-Keyes, declared herself a "liberal queer" at a public rally he lived up to his word. Her parents turned her out of their house, broke off all communication and stopped paying her university tuition fees.
Ms Keyes told a rally supporting gay young people in Maryland: "We have to figure out what we can do to make sure that during those times when it seems like everything in the world is turning against them, like everyone in the world is rejecting them, that they know there are resources out there they can turn to; there are people out there who will say to them, 'I care'."
Ms Keyes joins a list of gay people with rightwing relatives, including Mary Cheney and Candace Gingrich, the sister of Republican congressman Newt Gingrich. But Mr Keyes, a darling of the religious right, has been more outspoken on the issue than most.
Ms Keyes says her parents were "not too pleased" when she came out. "Things just came to a head. Liberal queer plus conservative Republican just doesn't mesh well."
Her older brother has offered her somewhere to stay and she has been given a scholarship to continue at college.
"My daughter is an adult, and she is responsible for her own actions. What she chooses to do has nothing to do with my work or political activities," Mr Keyes said in a statement.
Ms Keyes says she loves her parents and "totally understands" their position.
Any thread with Keyes in it draws every psycho on FR, They come out of the woodwork to bash this great man.
Yes. It makes me very angry. Especially when the lies and slander pour forth from people who claim to be Christian. What they take pleasure in doing to Keyes and his family is *not* Christian.
If I were looking for all the trolls, I would make a list of the posters on Keyes threads.
Same here. But from what I've seen, most of them are "protected".
That's the funniest thing I've ever read on FreeRepublic.
Don't post to me.
I have no time in my life for people who hate God.
It is Maya Keyes who is a disgrace to her parents. She is "a self-described anarchist queer" (not my words) with a sick soul.
I hear you. Some hearts are so hardened.
If you don't want people whose opinion differs from yours to respond to you, you should probably stop baiting like that.
For the last six years, all we've been told is that WE don't understand a word Keyes says. He's obviously so intellectually superior to the rest of us, he needs an entire FLOCK of people sweeping in behind him to explain to us, the great unwashed and ignorant masses, just what it was Doctor Keyes REALLY was saying.
You're "protected". Did you know that? LOL
By who?
Certainly you're not implying that people who don't like and/or agree with Keyes hate God, are you?
I'm sitting here trying to figure this out.
If you're against Keyes, it use to be that you were an "Obama lover!"
But it looks like tonight the ante has been up, and if you disagree with Keyes, you're a "God hater."
I wish somebody would tell me who's protecting me.
I am implying that people who believe in nothing, fall for anything. And I have no place in my life for people like that, they are dangerous.
Considering the recent history of the Keyes threads, that's a jaw-dropper.
We can all see who you were posting about and what your statements were, so please don't insult our intelligence by insisting you weren't referring to the "trolls" on this thread, who to you is anybody who disagrees with a word Alan Keyes says, as being God hating.
For Keyes? Are you freaking kidding me? He is the 5th rail of FreeRepublic.
Okay, I admit it I am an Obamater Golover!
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