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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: nickcarraway
I guess it's just one of those things they can't explain....like what makes people Type A or B personalities.
461
posted on
02/14/2005 3:17:21 PM PST
by
zoobee
(http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf)
Comment #462 Removed by Moderator
To: EveningStar
I think both of your instincts multiplied together wouldn't lead a protozoan from a bath of acid.
To: RWR8189
Actually, it was nice of her to wait until her father's election bid was over to announce this. She could have done this in October...
To: zoobee
You don't believe that some people are born gay? I believe that some might be born with a genetic predisposition to homosexuality, kind of like some are born predisposed to alcoholism or myopia or diabetes. But whereas the latter two are physical ailments, the former is a psychological one -- a state of mind as much as biochemical determinism.
When one reaches an age where one makes decisions, one decides whether to be homosexual or not. No one is born gay.
To: zoobee
You're welcome to your beliefs, but try coming up with fact. We're coming off a decade of gay-recruiting hype telling kids that being gay was a healthy, pleasant lifestyle CHOICE. Changing the dogma to a whiney "No, no, we didn't mean we CHOSE to be gay, we meant we didn't HAVE a choice doesn't make it a fact. Pseudoscience doesn't prove it.
The truth is likely somewhere in the middle. I know most boys who were molested by men remain sexually confused for many years after reaching puberty. DON'T sit there and try to convince me those kids, whoo's balls hadn't even dropped, somehow just KNOW they were born gay.
466
posted on
02/14/2005 3:24:29 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
To: IronJack
I just don't agree with that...especially since it isn't proven by science. You will never get me to believe that some gays CHOOSE to be gay.
467
posted on
02/14/2005 3:26:44 PM PST
by
zoobee
(http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf)
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To: JCEccles
"I can't believe I'm spending this much time on this thread. Keyes isn't my favorite politician. I guess I hate flippant and ignorant people and cheap-shot bullies such as yourself who join the rest of the fang-snapping pack and pile on."I'm with you. Most of the people on this thread are political agendists who smell blood in the water, with a few gay pride pushers thrown in for good measure.
469
posted on
02/14/2005 3:27:59 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
To: zoobee
so why is so hard to understand that there is a hormonal imbalance in many people to make them gay? Because according to Christian Scriptures homosexuality is the direct result of willful rejection of divine axioms. Short of comprehensive evidence to the contrary, people of faith see no reason not to accept the moral pronouncements made regarding homosexuals. Also, there exists enough circumstantial evidence with respect to the behaviour and tendencies of homosexuals to suspect the traditional understanding is valid.
470
posted on
02/14/2005 3:32:12 PM PST
by
papertyger
(If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.)
To: cake_crumb
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said ALL...and I know most of the Hollywierd group view it as a 'fad'. They have more problems I want to think about. I'm just saying that I believe that many gays were born with some kind of hormonal imbalance...a defect...and are truly born gay.
I also believe we should make Marriage an amendment (Fed or State) between a man and a woman only.
471
posted on
02/14/2005 3:32:46 PM PST
by
zoobee
(http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf)
To: papertyger
Ok...and if you take religion out of the equation?
472
posted on
02/14/2005 3:33:47 PM PST
by
zoobee
(http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf)
To: Heisenberg
Manichaean: of or relating to ManichaeismManichaeism: Established by the Persian prophet Mani in the 3rd century CE. Based on the Zoroastrian tradition and incorporating elements of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and other fairths(sic), Mani saw himself as a great religious teacher akin to Buddha and Jesus.
I wouldn't be surprised if Keyes felt that way about himself. I can tell you that some folks here do compare him with Jesus.
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To: Stone Mountain
She could have done this in October... This is a point an uncomfortably large number of freepers have overlooked. He didn't cut her off until she attended the "Counter-Inaugural," yet many are claiming he tossed her once his election bid failed.
I strongly suspect this is another "McGreevey" case where homosexuality is being used as camouflage for betrayal.
475
posted on
02/14/2005 3:41:15 PM PST
by
papertyger
(If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.)
To: papertyger
Are you saying that Keyes feels betrayed by his daughter "coming out" publicly and he therefore says he's opposed to her lesbianism, rather than that he's opposed to her embarrassing him?
To: zoobee
Ok...and if you take religion out of the equation? Why should one do that? Materialism is no more proveable than religion.
477
posted on
02/14/2005 3:47:15 PM PST
by
papertyger
(If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.)
To: zoobee
I'm not putting words in your mouth. Youre the one who said that most gays are "BORN" that way, emphasis yours, with hermaphroditism pseudo hermaphroditism (birth defects which affect less than one percent of children born in the US) as an example to prove your personal theory that most gays are BORN gay.
478
posted on
02/14/2005 3:47:38 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
To: Heisenberg
'Homosexuals are pretty much irrelevant. Like any group of folks their are vacuous radical homosexuals who wish to translate their status into " opression and victimization". Much like there are vacuous radical heterosexuals who would be all too willing to fullfill the radical homosexuals expectations'Looks to me like you understand them quite well.
Muslims - at least the ones the media deigns to quote - can be aded to your groups. I could care less if someone is gay, it's having them constantly whining and demanding our approval of everything they do that gets me. Respect is earned, not bestowed, and nobody respects an habitual victim.
You're screen name is interesting. Especially when associated with a thread like this.
479
posted on
02/14/2005 3:53:54 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
To: cake_crumb
Well, considering I voted for George W. Bush twice and was completely devestated by the early exit polls which showed him losing, I think that it's fair to say that I'm a conservative.
As for the Keyes story, here's all my responses to the arguments that have been bandied about today:
1. I agree with those of you who say that moms and dads should love and talk to their kids no matter what. Family is much, much more important than someone's sexual orientation or politics.
2. We're all sinners, and I think that we should all be careful to examine our own lives before we go around saying that others are going to Hell. Frankly, I think that God has reserved Hell for people like Hitler and bin Laden, not people who happen to be gay.
3. I think that Alan Keyes is more of a sinner than his daughter. I HATE people who are self-righteous and hypocritical, qualities which both apply to Keyes. There's a reason why he's never won an election; he thinks he's better than everyone else. Well, this incident shows us that he isn't; in fact, he's a pretty lousy parent all things considered.
480
posted on
02/14/2005 4:00:04 PM PST
by
Accygirl
(Um, I'm most definitely not a DUmmie....)
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