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.
Ok.. so she'd willfully rejected divine axionms. Why would a person raised in absolutes do that?
So this is the big announcement you promised yesterday afternoon?
How tragic for this young girl, whatever her problem, that you choose to humiliate her on this forum.
You accuse her of being used by political operatives?
Well, what, pray tell, are YOU doing by posting this thread.
Come on. You might as well ask why people own things just because they paid for them. It's part of the human condition. Every person with self-awareness makes that decision.
You mean he doesn't have enough sense to keep his mouth shut when the situation requires it?
As such, we should defer judgment on the way Alan Keyes handles his family life to God.
Exactly, Alan is letting his political operatives disperse a press release here or there and letting others fend for him. Sad for someone who claims not to hide behind anything.
Our side didn't bring it out in public, neither Cheney nor Keyes. The other side did because they know we have "friends" like you to contend with.
You have a nice day.
What were YOU doing by bringing up your deceased child when Ms. Keyes is not deceased?
You wanna play dirty? Let's play dirty.
When those absolutes became an issue, the other side does us it to exploit conservatives. Why? Because we haven't yet figured out how to handle them. Stay with the absolute and we appear harsh. Waffle and we appear wishy washy. That's why it makes news and that's why Alan got asked the question and he responded to the selfish hedonist question. He then made himself appear harsh and out of touch.
I will admit there are some on this forum who have it in for Alan simply because he appeared to attack Cheney's daughter and has at times been at odds with the President. I also will admit that there are some on this forum that will defend some of Alan's more strange actions and statements. I've seem some of the most unusual literary gymnatics on this forum when it comes to defending the President by the "Bushbots" and the "Keysters" who defend Alan.
I'm trying to get to the bottom of what makes otherwise good people who have been raised in the absolutes go "bad".
Do yourself a favor. Ask the moderator to delete your post #50.
First of all, I'd be honored to be formally working for the Keyes organization, however I'm not.
This article will not appear on RenewAmerica.us.
Secondly, I've not humiliated her on this thread, nor was that my intent, only to show where the statements being made in the press are not as true as they sound. She has said in news reports, that she has nothing to hide that's on the Blog, so what's on the Blog is now fair game. It wasn't when she was pulling articles last September.
You just don't get it do you?
You've posted this to chastize her and get Alan's "side" out there without him having to say a word; he felt free to do that with Mary Cheney.
Even if you are not working for him, shame on you for the way you spoke to her.
Whether this is news or not is for someone else to decided; but you announced yesterday you'd have some news later on; one is left to assume you either got it from somebody that DOES work for him or you made this happen.
It's a sad statement about the lengths people will go to, IMO.
Absolutely not.
I refuse to be intimidated by "Wellstoning."
Neither you nor Keyes has been a victim of "Wellstoning." You've both done it to yourselves.
Adam, why are you trying to reason with demagogues? They are telling you where you can drill, then blaming you for not finding water.
Ironic you should say that...
Naturally you have to make this about me. You guys are unbelievable.
I say what I think around here, just like everyone else. If you don't like it, you can cry to Jim. Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll ban me, and then you'll be one step closer to your apparent goal of having everyone think just like you.
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