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Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out
CBS News ^
| February 14, 2005
Posted on 02/14/2005 12:32:30 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: absalom; alankeyes; dyke; gays; homos; homosexuals; illinois; keyes; mayakeyes; selfishhedonist; traitor; trollbait
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To: k2blader
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posted on
02/14/2005 5:12:49 AM PST
by
Robert Drobot
(God, family, country. All else is meaningless.)
To: television is just wrong
It worries me though.It does me too.
I keep hearing television and radio ministers saying that our sexuality is either male or female. Yet we all know there are those with the reproductive organs and genitalia of both sexes. That doesn't seem to mesh
To: Spiff
I love my daughter very much...but if she showed up at my house with her lesbian lover...neither would be welcome.
If she shows up alone or with a friend from college...who isn't a lesbian that would be a totally different story.
I wont allow her or them to use my house for their own immoral activity anymore than I would let them use my garage to run a chop shop out of..
Sin is a crime against God...
Even if you do not believe in God...Sin is still a crime against Him
At the end of every human life comes a time of reckoning..
A father and mother must stand before Him and give an accounting for how they raised their children..
What your children do with their lives after they leave your house is on them...if you give them the tools to fight back against the enemy of our souls you do well...
If you do not give them those tools...or push them in the wrong direction...Their sin is still on them...however it is also on you...
imo
43
posted on
02/14/2005 5:14:27 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(If GW had been driving....Mary Jo would still be with us...)
To: k2blader
The prayers of this HOuse be with Alan Keyes and his family.
The rebellion of his daughter must wound him terribly-
only Christ can heal such hurt.And reconcile the errant
child to her parents,and to God.
To: TypeZoNegative
Anyways, I think it serves him right for going out and judging VP Cheney for loving his daughter. Quote?
45
posted on
02/14/2005 5:20:09 AM PST
by
Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
To: bullseye1911
Do agree-- The response seems Biblical. If Dr.Keyes has
taken it to his church and they have attempted to reconcile the rebellious child to her parents,and to God.
But if she has continued to ebrace her error then there
can be no room and no support for her wicked ways from a godly house.
To: joesbucks
The numbers of gay and lesbian people are a lot at least where I live. I seem to run into them a lot.
They are from all racial backgrounds, My observations not scientific, have shown me that something is lacking. Maturuity or lack of, strikes me as a possible reason. People that have had hurtful relationships sometimes head in that direction because they don't want to be hurt again.
Men that a couple of generations ago would probably marry, are openly gay I think because of the womens movement.
My statements are only what I have observed.
To: television is just wrong
There has also been much talk recently about the possible connection between abuse (physical, verbal or sexual) and homosexuality. I first heard this from a person deeply involved in matters of faith a several years ago. It now seems to be being discussed more and more. I wonder.
To: TypeZoNegative
I love my son--But True Love does NOT mean one must embrace
what is an abomination worthy of death. I will Not support
my sons' gay lifestyle. HE has chosen error and must accept
the consequences. I have written VP Cheney on several occasions They are entitled to their opinion even as I am
entitled to publically declare my own. I think your error
is you confuse Love with licence. and the two are not
compatible.
To: RWR8189
48 posts and no pic of maya yet? wow you guys are slipping.
50
posted on
02/14/2005 5:27:23 AM PST
by
isom35
To: gracex7
I don't believe that he and his wife have stopped loving their daughter. Sure. Not speaking to her? Throwing her out of the house? Cut her off financially? That just screams love to me.
To: k2blader
Thank the Lord for godly parents like Alan Keyes and others who understand the depth of this issue. The old "hate the sin, hate the sinner more" at work.
To: television is just wrong
Everyone I know, has at least one gay family member. That is how widespread the gay community is. I haven't met anyone who was gay since I was in college, many moons ago. Even then, they tended to date the opposite sex and being gay was far more political than practical for them.
To: joesbucks
I would always support a return to God - in schools or anywhere else for that matter. Absent that, I recommend believers seek other alternatives to educate their children than government schools.
As to speculation on the internal state of the Keyes family, I don't want to go there. I will say, however, that every person I know who experimented with homosexual behavior, to a one of them - all experienced difficulties in their relationship with the father. In the case of many dads, it's not physical or sexual abuse. It can simply be a result of absence/unavailability/distance.
To: Non-Sequitur
There's a fine balancing act between simply letting what will be be, sending a message that I will support you through love and encourage you through prayer but your lifestyle cannot be permitted in my home nor can I support it and simply being a cruel individual. It's a tough call.
To: anniegetyourgun
Thanks Annie- as usual you say it better than I could.
To: anniegetyourgun
As someone pointed out, she could be the prodigal daughter, but if she isn't, then it's a bigger problem that needs to be looked at from both a conservative perspective as well as a faithful perspective. To much of this is happening to young folks who have had the proper faith based education and come from strong faith based families as has Maya. Soemehow, there's a disconnect and something larger is happening or being exposed.
To: L.N. Smithee
I've wondered the same thing. What's with the hyphen?
And as far as I know, FRC's Robert Knight is still alive, if he's the same guy. He is the one who focuses on homosexual agenda items.
Dan
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posted on
02/14/2005 5:46:48 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Non-Sequitur
I also am not sure they stopped loving their daughter.
I am not sure they ever did.
Keep in mind that Keyes was perfectly happy to haave his known to be lesbian daughter delay college and work for him in his election campaign, living in his house.
Keep in mind also that Keyes thinks we all owe him reparations for his ancestors being slaves.
To: joesbucks
And are you open that the cause of Maya's current problem may be that she was somehow a victim of abuse?WHile I'm not saying it can't happen, doesn't that give people a lovely start down the road of victimhood?
BLame anyone but the person who makes the choices, it is the liberal way.
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posted on
02/14/2005 5:47:47 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(Better get it done now, might not be able to after '08 (repeal GCA of '68, NFA of '34))
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