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.

[af_vet_1981]

The woman could not be put to death by those who had committed the same sin. Adultery remained a capital crime.

[af_vet_1981]

I'm a "traitor"

As you wish

[Torie]

Now I know how Rumsfeld felt about what the MSM media did with his remarks about armored vehicles in Iraq! LOL.

[af_vet_1981]

I would like you to explain to yourself, without lying if you can, Numbers 25:10-13.

[af_vet_1981]

Yeah, like Michael Newdow and Gavin Newsom, the last defenders of the First Amendment and the wall of separation between the homosexual predators and their prey ...

[Accygirl]

Exactly why do all conservatives have to march in lockstep on everything? Alan Keyes is a major hypocrite who is always lecturing others on their morals/ families instead of taking care of his own family issues. I would prefer a politician like President Bush, who knows that he has flaws and sins and doesn't lecture others about theirs, over one like Alan Keyes any day. I highly doubt that Barbara or Jenna or the Cheneys' daughters would publicly repudiate their parents in the way Keyes' daughter has apparently repudiated him.

As for it being similar to a divorce, although I don't have kids, I would think that the bound between parents and their children is much stronger than even a bound between spouses.

[Torie]

That's a novel contribution to the separation of church and state debate.

[af_vet_1981]

It is not by sheer numbers that homosexual activists and addicts have risen in power and influence, permeating contemporary Western culture. They needed straight men as willful accomplices.

And of course they have to have prey.

The spice must flow.

[mickie]

Doesn't it seem that many men who are strong, successful, probably demanding to their families......have lesbian daughters?

I thought that about Cheney.

They would tend to set an example that is hard to follow.

I believe that "gays" are made....not born.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I really believe most people that are gay are BORN that way. There are many babies born with both sexes and parents have to make that choice what their kid would be...so why is so hard to understand that there is a hormonal imbalance in many people to make them gay?

From a spiritual standpoint, it doesn't matter if someone is born that way. Most men are born with the desire to have sex with a number of different women, but God doesn't condone that behavior either.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Actually I view homosexuals kind like Indians. You know they exist and you might even see them from time to time. But homosexuals have very little impact on the lives of heterosexuals beyond a very tangential way. 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.

I don't understand either group.

Obviously not. (Indians? What the hell...?)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

She is explicitly aligning herself wiith groups seeking to undermine the legitimacy of a sitting President in time of war.

Well, Keyes recently posted a very unflattering article about President Bush, written by that nut Charles Baldwin (the same article that was too much for FreeRepublic and pulled here, by the way), on his Renew America website...so it would seem Maya isn't the only one who can be critical of "a sitting President in time of war".

[IronJack]

I just don't agree with that...especially since it isn't proven by science.

You want to talk about what's not proven by science? Genetic homosexuality comes to mind ... After all these years and years of research, and all the PC pressure, nobody has found a "gay gene" yet.

[L.N. Smithee]

What is it with parents who hate their own children? How can they be conservative role models?

Oh, I see you are skilled in using the effective Gay-stapo rhetorical tool, the "You hate meeeee!" offense. That may work on some, but not me.

Who said that Alan Keyes 'hates' his daughter besides you? Did she say so? What constitutes 'hate'? Failing to abandon your deeply-held convictions and principles because someone close to you rejects them? It is to laugh.

Anti-gay conservatives say gays should go straight. But then when one does, you attack him anyway. You should be performing certain (purely platonic) acts on him in gratitude for his rejection of the homosexual lifestyle.

What in the world are you talking about? No one with any credibility has ever said that Ron the Lesser has ever had carnal knowledge of a male -- just that he acts like someone who has!

I would really like to know where you got this notion that R. Prescott Reagan is an "ex-gay," since everything that comes out of the guy's mouth indicates that he would have no problem embracing the homo lifestyle rather than rejecting it! The former First Twerp wears his atheism on his sleeve more than anyone I can think of besides Michael Newdow -- why would he be reluctant to use gayness as yet another loogie in the face of his adopted brother Michael, a flamboyant Christian?

[L.N. Smithee]

When did Bob Knight die?

Pardon me -- I meant William "Pete" Knight, the father of the Knight Initative (Proposition 22), which codified marriage as one man/one woman in California.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Actually I view homosexuals kind like Indians. You know they exist and you might even see them from time to time.

Every time I look in the mirror...

But homosexuals have very little impact on the lives of heterosexuals beyond a very tangential way. 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.

Well, just because the Gays latched onto the Civil Rights movement, doesn't make teh comparison between gays and indians valid - maybe someday, when gays are shunted onto unwanted land, killed in large numbers, ripped off, sent to crappy boarding schools to change who they are, and discriminated against in every way imaginable, then maybe, maybe, someday we could compare the two... but not currently.

I don't understand either group.

Well, I don't pretend to understand gays... so...

[murdoog]

And, absent budget cuts, there will be many who suffered various injustices who will be paying higher taxes to make up the difference.

And there would be a HUGE block of voters who didn't care how much the government spent because they paid no taxes. So it's a fair assumption we would be "absent budget cuts".

[Chad Fairbanks]

The AIM movement wishes to portray all Indians as victims of opression etc. They radical gay movement wishes to portray all homosexuals as victims. The analogy is focused on the notion of the " priviledge of victimhood" as Thomas Sowell puts it.

All one has to do is read pratically any thread on FR that deals with indians, and you'll find that indians, often enough, ARE still oppressed, discriminated against, and otherwise maligned. You should see and hear some of the stuff I've had said to me - imagine walking out of a grocery store, and some dickhead is handing out "Rules for Indian Hunting Season" - pretty sick if you ask me. An American Indian girl in Idaho was scalped by some white kids just a few months ago, because she was "disrespectful"... That's the kind of stuff Indians still face in society TODAY. It's not okay when it's against blacks, orientals, or gays or anyone else, but it is still acceptable in this day and age to hate indians, and discriminate against them. No outcries, no uproars, no nothing. Just "Whatever, they got casinos, so screw 'em..."

The reality is the AIM movement doesn't represent all Indians. Nor does the radical gay movement represent all homosexuals. Sorry if the analogy seemed strained to you.

AIM may not represent all Indians, but they represent some - and there is a valid reason they attract so many to their ranks...

[murdoog]

Perhaps I am overly critical but my instincts tell me that Keyes is a bit fraudulent

You sound a bit uncertain about that.

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