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.

No, just a queer anarchist

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I know, I was just being funny. A play on words - "comming out". Used to mean when a (rich) young girl was old enough for dating, parents would throw a big social event party. Still goes on in the South and I'm sure other places too.

But the point is, you don't shield them from the consequences of poor decisions, or encourage or enable them to make such decisions.

Sometimes talking (warning) doesn't get the job done. There is such a thing a "tough love" and what it really means is allowing a child (particularly an adult child) to experience the full consequences of a painful decision without interfering, excusing, or minimizing it. The child may think the parent "hates" them for not stepping in, but that's because the child still hasn't crossed the threshhold into accepting full responsibility for their own actions.

You need to learn what love is.

I have a daughter, and I love her and her mother more than I ever thought possible. And I can't think of a single thing she could do that would make me turn her out of my house, cut off all communications with her, and literally divorce her from my family and my life. Certainly nothing as trivial as what Keyes has thrown his daughter out over.

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