Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out

CBS News ^ | February 14, 2005

[RWR8189]

(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.

[joesbucks]

One thing we don't know is the process Maya used to form her lifestyle or sexuality situation. Are you sure it was homo-activists or maybe, she did this on her own without any such egging on by one of these groups? Not everyone who has come out has been "changed" by the homo-activists. I know it's easy to place blame there. Sort of the victim thingy. The old we can't control it so we must be a victim of it.

I see the same things in the culture everyday and have no desire to become homosexual. Granted I'm not 19 anymore, but let's face it, supposedly she should have been well grounded in private Catholic school, household and faith as to what sexuality choices should be available to her. I'm sure Alan didn't have Will and Grace on during prime time.

What could it be

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

like the Cheneys, who love their daughter no matter what
Love? Doing nothing while their daughter puts herself on the road to hell is "love"? Sounds more like indifference to me.

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You are so right.I love the Cheneys but they are wrong on this. I told my boys at an early age, they were not gay and if they thought they might be I would 'KILL THEM' myself.

When parents are with there kids and this stuff comes up make a stand right then so they know what to do, when they are faced with it away from you.

[MHalblaub]

"[Maya] Marcel-Keyes grew up in Darnestown, Md., attended a conservative Catholic school for girls in McLean, Va.,..."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/13/politics/main673732.shtml

[longtermmemmory]

I think you have valid points.

Which is why the public school leftists are now assuming children being taught "wrong morals" at home by mothers and fathers.

It is also on parents to model proper behavior.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I told my boys at an early age, they were not gay and if they thought they might be I would 'KILL THEM' myself.

Did you offer the same admonition regarding sex with women outside of marriage?

When I was reading this story, it struck me as odd that the media is so aghast when someone is called a "sinner". We're all sinners. And a lot of people on this thread would be wise to remember that, too.

[TigersEye]

No one, not even you, has challenged my statement.

I'd call this a challenge. "Don't think everyone is buying your BS on that."

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Which is why the public school leftists are now assuming children being taught "wrong morals" at home by mothers and fathers.
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You are 100% correct. Children aren't being taught right from wrong just whatever they might want to try. It is not just the schools it is home and environment we live in these days, and all these things must come to pass.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Pope John Paul II - Veritatis Splendor - 1993

God alone is worthy of being loved "with all one's heart, and with all one's soul, and with all one's mind" (Mt 22:37). He is the source of man's happiness. Jesus brings the question about morally good action back to its religious foundations, to the acknowledgment of God, who alone is goodness, fullness of life, the final end of human activity, and perfect happiness.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Did you offer the same admonition regarding sex with women outside of marriage?

Yes I did!

[TigersEye]

You want added context. So add it.

Hell will freeze over before you do it. ; )

CARLSON: All right. I want to ask you question then, Ambassador Keyes. I take you serious, I take your ideas seriously, and I agree with most of them. So I was shocked the other day to see you give a press conference endorsing the idea of reparations for slavery, tax breaks for descendants of slavery. You said--pointing out that your opponent Barack Obama is not descended from slaves and you are. This struck me as a kind of essential betrayal of the beliefs you've been espousing in public for the last 20 years.

KEYES: Oh, not at all. I have taken a strong position against schemes of extortion from the fellow citizens of people here in America, based on the idea that somehow or another that would be requital for slavery--and I made clear over the years that I think the blood and treasure sacrifice during the Civil War constituted that requital.

But I have also made clear every time I was asked that there was objective damage done to black Americans by the slave system. And there have been frequent efforts in American history, not thus far successful, to address the wounds that were left by that legacy.

What I have laid on the table repeatedly is a thoroughly Republican, thoroughly conservative approach that is actually borrowed from ancient history in terms of what the Roman empire used to do to respond to damaged communities. You give them tax relief. You give them a tax break to make up for the fact, for instance, in this case, that black folks toiled for generations at what was effectively a hundred percent tax rate.

And by doing this, you unleash their enterprise. Give them an incentive to work. Give people an incentive to own businesses. Without taking a penny out of anybody else's pocket, you're able to create an environment where people are encouraged to work to put a strong foundation under themselves instead of putting money in a bureaucracy to dominate their lives that undermines the moral foundations of their family and destroys their economic incentives.

As a matter of fact, it's a thoroughly conservative, thoroughly consistent Republican approach to a very serious challenge.

[MHalblaub]

You're a great educator.
But you have a moral confliction. You son maybe gay but killing him is not quite what the Bible tells me.

I think the Cheneys make a better job. You won't convince your children without talking to them.

[Mr. Silverback]

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

I thought he was speaking in a philosophical context.

[ErnBatavia]

If he's spotted headin' for the shower at the gym, Batavia's goin' home unbathed...

[TigersEye]

You want added context. So add it.

WILLIAMS: And, of course, you do have a Ph.D from Harvard. Both you and Sen. Obama went to Harvard.

And here is one, Dr. Keyes, that was asked of us off the air just before you joined us--just seconds before you joined us, in fact. One of our listeners would like to know about the very latest stance that you have regarding slave reparations. There has been a lot of buzz about that--and explain to listeners, if you would, what your position is on the issue and where that issue should go.

KEYES: Well, I have consistently opposed what amount to extortion efforts by people who have been trying to go into court, get billions or trillions of dollars in settlements from their fellow citizens, and so forth, and I have said that I think that that is wrong. I have opposed that because I, frankly, believe that in those terms, the sacrifice of blood and treasure of the Civil War was sufficient requital for the terrible injustice of slavery. Lincoln, himself, regarded it as such, and I think we shouldn't be second-guessing Lincoln's judgment or the great sacrifices of the people who risked them, who gave their lives in that terrible conflict.

On the other hand, I have said repeatedly over the years, there was objective damage done and left by slavery--and over the course of time, you and I both know America has tried to address that damage. Forty acres and a mule right after the Civil War, all the way up through the Great Society programs under Johnson, Affirmative Action under Nixon.

I think there should be an awareness that slavery and its legacy left material damage in the black community as an objective fact, but they've always been wrong about how to address it. And in that context, I have put an idea on the table over the course of the years that I think not only arises from my conservative and Republican values, but would actually do what the Great Society and others things did not, would work with people in such a way as to free their incentive, give them incentives to work, to own businesses, to save and invest in the concrete and real market economy. And that is an example taken from the old Roman Empire, where, when a community was damaged, in a context where the government either abetted that damaged or should have prevented it, the community was given tax relief for a certain time.

And I think that that would have been the best approach, and may still be the best approach to this whole problem of how one deals with the damaging material legacy of slavery. . . .

FAST: Dr. Keyes . . .

KEYES: . . . exempt those who are the descendants of slaves, who bear the wounds, in fact, of that legacy, exempt them from federal taxation for a certain length of time. And in doing so, without taking money out of anybody else's pocket, you give them an incentive to work, to save, and invest, that would help to put a strong foundation under their future.

[Mr. Silverback]

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

When did he do that? If I'd heard about that, I'm not sure I would have voted for him, but would have witheld my vote or given it to a third party candidate.

I also thought that his total lack of gracious ness after the election was unacceptable. Being mad at the media would have been OK, but refusing to congratulate Obama was just the same as giving the finger to the voters of Illinois, IMHO.

[joesbucks]

I think the media finds it newsworthy that someone who does advocate black and white with regard to morality issues has one of thier own children accepting and engaging in amoral behavior. That's why it's news. But then again, it was news when Chasity Bono came out, before it was commonly known that Sonny was Republican and leaned conservative. It was more based on the fact that here was this cure kid in the late 60's that had nationwide exposure on tv and now is an admitted lesbian.

with regard to sex outside of marriage, that seems to have dropped off the radar with the Christian Right. The big headline grabbers are abortion and homosexuality. Fornication and Adultry are now no biggies as those activities are too widely happeing in many of today's churches.

I've found it odd that so many in the Christian Right movement seem to focus on the happeings in the secular world when in fact most if not virtually all congregations need to be serioiusly looked at with regard to not obeying the word. Can't control what's happening behind the stained glass, but want to take on the secular world. They can't even save their own congregations from the horrible wrongs happeing right under Gods nose.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Fair enough.

It's hard to imagine a parent disowning a kid over heterosexual sin these days, but the general consensus sure seems to be that disowning one over being gay is not only all right, but it's the only thing you could do.

I'm a Christian but I'm not a parent, so I can't say how I would handle anything for sure (though my neighbors' son and daughter are gay, and I definitely talk to them, and I definitely care about them, and I LIKE them) - but I appreciate your consistency.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

with regard to sex outside of marriage, that seems to have dropped off the radar with the Christian Right. The big headline grabbers are abortion and homosexuality. Fornication and Adultry are now no biggies as those activities are too widely happeing in many of today's churches.

I've noticed that.

[Mr. Silverback]

Certainly it is irrelevant whether a conservative has a gay-rights fan in their family. You'll notice nobody ever questions whether a gay activist is a hypocrite because they love/hate their conservative family members.