Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out

(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate.

Maya Marcel-Keyes will be making her first public appearance as a gay activist at a Valentine Day's rally in front of the Maryland State House, says Dan Furmansky, the leader of Equality Maryland, a gay rights group.

Last summer her father, a conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate, caused a stir during the Republican convention by labeling Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter a sinner and calling homosexuality "selfish hedonism."

"It was kind of strange that he said it like a hypothetical," she told the Washington Post. "It was really kind of unpleasant."

Marcel-Keyes told the Post her parents have thrown her out of the house, stopped speaking to her and refuse to pay for college because she is gay. She said she loves her parents.

Keyes' Web site says he is against "the homosexual rights agenda, including same-sex marriage."

Marcel-Keyes grew up in Darnestown, Md., attended a conservative Catholic school for girls in McLean, Va., spent a year in the south of India advocating tribal rights, and plans to attend Brown University this fall, according to an Equality Maryland press release.

Furmansky told CBSNews.com that Marcel-Keyes would not be speaking to the media ahead of Monday's rally, and probably not afterward, either.

Bloggers have identified her Web site as http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Xmisled0youthX. The author of the blog says it is public and she has nothing to hide.

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law'; and 'a man's enemies will be those of hos own household.'
He who loves father or mother more than Me is now worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughetr more than Me is not worthy of Me." -- Mathew 10:34-37

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"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." -- Mathew 10:34-37

Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6

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(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate.

What an opening paragraph. What media bias?

This woman's name is interesting -- why is her name "Maya Marcel-Keyes"? The placing of the hyphen seems to indicate that there is more than one paternal surname attached to her.

Is Maya actually Keyes' flesh and blood, or is she an adopted stepchild?

BTW -- Phyllis Schlafly has a gay son. It hasn't stopped her a bit. Same with the late Robert Knight. And of course, there's Ron the Lesser Reagan, who isn't gay, but might as well be.

(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate.

What an opening paragraph. What media bias?

I can just see some smart-ass CBS reporter typing this story, chuckling and giggling all the way. Chances are you'd find better journalistic ethics at your local high-school newspaper than you will at CBS News. Maybe that's why their ratings are so anemic.

I have a "Valentine" for Dan Rather and all the other liberal hacks at CBS. It's a heart-shaped pink slip. Buh-bye!

Anyways, I think it serves him right for going out and judging VP Cheney for loving his daughter.

He never did that. What he did was honestly and brillantly answer questions about why he was opposed to gay marriage. and the reporter twisted the words to get the answer he wanted. You really should know better than taking what a reported says at face value.

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