Posted on 02/15/2005 11:16:43 PM PST by Keyes2000mt
The recent revelations regarding Maya Keyes, the daughter of Ambassador Alan Keyes came as no surprise to me. I’m one of the few thousand who knew about her romantic relationship with a young woman from New Jersey, but I believed it was none of anyone’s business. The more I read the blogs of Maya and her friends, the more I became convinced the struggles of young people with their identity were not intended to be viewed by the world.
I’ve kept silence and have committed the matter to prayer. Now that a host of media outlets are reporting the Maya Keyes’ story, there’s not much point in keeping silence and some of the misleading information appearing in the press has to be answered with truth. My goal is not to harm Maya, only to show where certain facts have been distorted.
1) The Lesbian?
Stories continually point to Maya’s self-proclaimed Lesbianism, but there’s more to it than that. Maya broke off her romance with the woman who along with her, was plastered across the leftwing of the blogosphere last fall. However, another love was just around the corner.
On her blog on November 22nd, she posted the following entry:
I got back yesterday from California, where I had a blast^1000 spending time with the "Aldo", who I already miss so much I'm ready to get on the next plane back to San Fran…
When we finished getting intoxicated with natural beauty we returned to somewhere I felt far less at home - Travis Air Force Base. Yes, yes, I know. An anarchist staying on a military base... quite incongruous, I know. It is just evidence of how much I love the "Aldo" that I would set foot on the place. [And evidence of how much the "Aldo" loves me that he would put up with me for that ten days, through the amazing insanity - but that's a whole nother story.]
*sighs*
He is magic, and magic with fuzzy hair - where on the East Coast can I find that?
Is Maya Keyes intentionally deceiving gay rights activists in order to get housing and a guaranteed Ivy League education? No, like a lot people her age, she’s confused and searching for her identity. Sadly, in the midst of a confusing time in her life, political opportunists in the gay movement are ready to exploit her vulnerability, naiveté, and a difficult family situation for their own ends.
2) Kicked out for being Gay
The second issue with Maya’s story is that various media reports have said her father kicked her out for being a lesbian. The story is worth some consideration. Many have openly wondered with what came out in the campaign why Keyes would wait until now to kick Maya out.
As I watched events unfold back in September, I harkened back to a statement Keyes made to the City Club of Chicago when asked about the role of gays in the GOP. Keyes reminded the audience all are sinners and then said, “Which one of us wants there to be a heartless rejection of our other abilities, of our other virtues, of our other qualities because we have sometimes stumbled?...There's no contradiction between defending the institution of marriage and understanding that even when you look at somebody and you know that they're in sin you can still remember that they are children of God, because God remembers and you treat them as such and respect them for those that He would always value in them. And that's why Christ spent so much time with sinners. He didn't just see their sin, he saw the possibility of their salvation and so should we." During the months that have followed, Keyes practiced what he preached and continues to. Despite the overblown rhetoric, Alan Keyes didn’t kick Maya out for being gay and my source on that is none other than Maya herself.
In her Blog on January 30, 2005, she wrote: “A couple days ago I got my official two-week warning I have to be out of this apartment; so finally for real I'm getting cut off. I got no severance or anything like that from my sudden termination of employment (don't I have freedom of speech? the right to protest Bush without losing my job? Hehe... most people would think that working under a parent would be security but for me it's quite the opposite.) “
Well, first of all, the two weeks notice gives us less the picture of Dr. Keyes tossing Maya’s stuff on the curb and more of him telling her it’s time to get out on her own. Secondly, her participation in the counter-inaugural in Washington, DC is listed as both the reason for her being fired and being thrown out of her apartment. Both actions in this light seem more than reasonable.
You can’t work for a Conservative organization by day and join anarchist far-leftists by night in opposing the President. It’s a conflict of interest that raises the specter of whether you can be trusted with sensitive information. ABC7 news reported a family friend told them Maya has not been barred from the family’s residence only from the apartment Keyes and the staff of his new organization are using and she was, at the time, living in.
More to the point, getting involved in subversive groups can be destructive to your career if you want a job that requires a background check. Maya may not realize this, but as a former member of the National Security Council, Dr. Keyes must understand how such rash youthful actions can come back to bite people when they’re older. Perhaps, he hoped that his action would serve as a reality check.
Family Matters
As to whose right in the issues between Maya and Alan Keyes, it’s not really for us to say. Some, have harked back to Keyes’ statement on Mary Cheney to suggest divine retribution, as if God reached down out of the sky and turned Maya Keyes into a lesbian in order to punish Alan Keyes. Others have said they’re not surprised by the reports because of the type of man Alan Keyes is and that Keyes fully deserves this. If there’s any justice in this world, such people will be judged by the opinions of their disgruntled 19-year old children.
The challenge of parenting is daunting and sometimes requires tough love and hard choices. Alan Keyes isn’t the only parent to have to tell a child they had to move out. There’s more to this story than the media would have us believe, because it’s the story of a family and there’s nothing more complex. As such, we should defer judgment on the way Alan Keyes handles his family life to God.
I think Alan DOES owe us an explanation. First, he is a leader and secondly, he's always said, yes stated that he would not remain silent on matters that are important. The situation with his daughter is importantant. The man has staked a claim in absolutes. If you absolutely do something, the absolute result will occur. There is a problem with his daughter that the absolute inputs did not equal the absolute outputs. If you believe as does Alan that Maya's sexuality is simply a matter of choice, then some input was faulty. If the equation of absolutes is in fact valid, then some input was in error. If the faulty input is not discovered to show and teach people not to repeat it, then Alan has missed the mark then he has so often stated that he will not remain silent with regard to matters of importance.
BULL! Anyone with any maturity knows that the rantings of a sullen teenager do not merit explainations, even if they appear in the press.
If Alan is worth his salt, then the issue is to get to the root cause and explore it so it is avoided in every future family, expecially if the root cause is internal and not external.
Alan has always been quick to make broad brush sweeps on matters such as this. If he hadn't in the past, then yes, I would say it would be a family matter. But he hasn't and if it were someone else, he likely would have not remained silent, especially if coming from the other side of the political spectrum. If Desi Arnaz was alive today he would be saying "Alan, you got some 'splainin to do."
I like how you think we NEED to know more than you've already admitted to on your blog. One fly spoils the whole bowl, kiddo.
You're assuming what you say about absolutes makes sense. It does not. I'm not critisizing your thinking; it's your writing.
Are you torqued because of her coming out or are you torqued because it hurts someone you hold in high esteem.
That's not the issue that precipitated all this.
I'm torqued because I'm surrounded by IDIOTS that can't see the frickin' emperor is naked.
I'll type this slow for you...she says on her own blog he threw her out in response to her activities at the counter-inaugural.
Ok, so the counter inagural caused her to be evicted. What is the cause of her being a lesbian?
Come on Joe. You've been reading these threads. Speculation like that is as useful as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and only confuse the relevant issues.
The part that concerns us as the public was a stealth attack by trying to use a "McGreevey" defense.
Either absolutes don't equal absolute outcome or there was a straying from the absolute somewhere.
What absolute are you claiming was violated?
First of all, I don't think the issue has ever been that homosexuality is purely a choice. We all understand there are reasons that people get caught up in homosexuality.
In writing this article, I had to walk a very fine line between providing information that clarified the truth of the situation and being far too invasive in posting a lot of personal details.
I mean you can certain form an analysis of why Ms. Keyes is a lesbian just by going through her blog, but it's the type of thing that is very unseemly for a father to discuss in public.
It's also very painful and I'm certain there's a lot of "where did I go wrong" analysis that Dr. Keyes has himself.
One thing Dr. Keyes said back in December, he was asked about pullings kids out of public school. Keyes responded that he couldn't give a flat answer because he'd done both. He said he'd kept the kids in public school until "the results got too bad".
So, the lesson I take from this is "Homeschool Your Kids" and monitor the type of cultural input they get very closely during their formative years. However, beyond that, I don't think he's required to go through self-flagulation in public and to make a speech, "Where I went wrong and failed as a parent" in order to please people. Again, such analysis of the most private areas of life would be beneath most people who wouldn't appear on the Jerry Springer show.
If we are going to hold to that thesis, then there was an absolute(s) that were violated. It's up to Alan and Maya to explain those.
Frankly to allow his surrogates to provide formal responses is ducking accountability.
If we are going to hold to that thesis, then there was an absolute(s) that were violated. It's up to Alan and Maya to explain those.,
I'm not wanting to make an enemy out of you Joe, but that's got to be the most doctrinaire and pathetic attempt to justify fishing for lurid details I've ever seen. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Really.
What adult is supposed to take you seriously when you spout tripe with the logical cohesion of "smoking dope is illegal" therefore "smoking cigarettes is illegal." That's exactly what you're saying about absolutes. Are you sure you're not fourteen?
C'mon you know better.
Will you accept G-d's explaination? He says the willful rejection of divine axioms causes habitual homosexual behavior. Read Romans 1:18-32.
Dude! That's what you're saying. It may not be what you mean, but that's what's coming across.
Alan's never shied away from making his views known, no matter the consequences. So have him come forward.
Alan's always stated that we must follow absolutes to accomplish what is intended for us. Either that failed or an absolute was violated. Now is the time for Alan to do some deep inner reflection and come forward with either defending his beliefs about absolutes or explain how one was violated.
You know, for the first time Alan may have to explain in plain words and not his usual Alanspeak something critical about life.
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