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.
Oh... Well... Gee Whiz... glad you cleared that up!
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And you call me contentious.
The usual suspects are AWOL, but Alan's posse is obviously alive and well on FreeRepublic.
I haven't made it through the 800 or so posts thread yet from yesterday, but I have read about half of the posts. My guess is that this is going hurt Alan Keyes. Those who choose to defend him from all criticism, right or wrong, will not be able to control "public" perception.
Mr. Keyes is a public figure. That has been his choice. He has freely chosen to judge others and comment on the personal lives of others.
Now it seems that he is on the receiving end of that which he chooses to dish out. And as Howlin has pointed out - Mr Keyes is trying to "duck" the issue. But I don't think this one will "duck". It's too juicy.
How does that go, "judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again"
I'll take door number two, Monty.
Are you proud of your contempt? Have you worked hard to develop it?
Saying what you think has never been the problem. Your intransigence when you "think" 2+2 doesn't have to equal four, is.
Funny. I'm not the one using pretzel logic, trying to protect someone I don't even know.
Find one post of mine, prior to this issue, in support of Keyes.
My only interest in this is a loathing for character assassins, and there are a whole lot of freepers that would rather assassinate Keyes character than admit they sold out to MSM culture with regard to homosexuality.
No, it develops on its own in the presence of those that insist on offering commentary while jamming their fingers in their ears.
Do you think Alan Keyes would like the fact that you just attacked his kid?
You never seem to have a problem using it to attack. You tell me which is more honorable.
LOL - you just attacked a KID. Sheesh! Yeah - you're really "honorable".
Would your Daddy be proud of you contriving reasons to slander a man who puts G-d, and Country above his own happiness?
So you had nothing to do with your being contemptful? How is it that you were such a fertile receptor?
I notice that you say you "loath" character assasination as well. And yet you choose to be a character assassin. So do you loath yourself?
papertyger spouts Godliness and religion but acknowleges being contemptful and tries her best to be a character assassin. The hostility in her posts is palpable. Smells like a fraud to me :-)
I'm a born-again believer, but I never cared for people who would bludgeon someone who is in pain in the name of Christ.
They aren't even worth the effort to argue with, honestly.
Just can't find something to stick, can ya?
Reach a little further up there...
No, I had the news yesterday and I had obtained it by simply reading her blog. The reason I didn't post my response then and there was because:
1) I was at work and my article was on my home computer
2) I still needed to edit the draft.
I've contacted no Keyes people on this and don't intend to.
I'd also add that I'm not really posting Alan's side, I'm merely showing the inconsitency in Maya's story based on HER OWN words.
Something like that.
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