Posted on 02/14/2005 9:46:45 AM PST by metalmanx2j
MARYLAND - Scheduled to speak at an Equality Maryland rally for gay rights today, Maya Keyes, 19, daughter of former Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes, is speaking publicly for the first time about her sexuality and her soured relationship with her parents. Both Advocate.com and The Washington Post ran articles over the weekend wherein Maya Keyes discussed the situation.
Read Maya Keyes' interview with Advocate.com:
Maya Keyes ends speculation about her sexuality.
On Sunday, Marc Fisher of the Washington Post reported,
Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she disagrees with him on "almost everything" political, she worked hard for his quixotic and losing campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Now Maya Keyes -- liberal, lesbian and a little lost -- finds herself out on her own. She says her parents -- conservative commentator and perennial candidate Alan Keyes and his wife, Jocelyn -- threw her out of their house, refused to pay her college tuition and stopped speaking to her.
Maya, 19, says her parents cut her off because of who she is -- "a liberal queer." Tomorrow, she will take her private dispute with her dad into the open. She is scheduled to make her debut as a political animal, speaking at a rally in Annapolis sponsored by Equality Maryland, the state's gay rights lobby.
She plans to talk about "what it was like for me growing up as a liberal queer in a very conservative household. I've known so many other people in a position like mine, where their families really don't want much to do with them. Maybe I can help by talking about it."
The issue of Maya Keyes' sexuality came up during the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois when Capitol Fax publisher Rich Miller discovered a blog apparently populated by Maya that discussed her family and her sexuality and included pictures of her kissing another girl. The story remained underground during the Senate campaign thanks in large measure to the campaign's unwillingness to confirm or deny that the blog was indeed Maya's.
According to Fisher's piece in the Washington Post, despite the fact that Maya has been kicked out of her home, a San Francisco-based charity, the Point Foundation, has stepped in to provide the money needed for Maya to begin her studies at Brown University.
Interestingly, Maya Keyes seems to harbor little ill will towards her father. Again, from the Washington Post,
Maya still sounds more sad than angry about her situation. "I wouldn't want to do anything to hurt my father," she says. Like other gay relatives of prominent conservatives, she has struggled with how public to be about her sexuality...Maya is looking for work, planning to move in with friends in Washington or a brother in Boston. She hopes to get back in touch with her mom and dad..."It all seems kind of ridiculous," she says, "because I love him. He's my father."
© 2005 IllinoisLeader.com
The standards of pretty much any employer in this country looking at two comparable resumes and deciding who to hire.
wow.... today is Gay News Day
And you probably will.
Not Penn State or Notre Dame etc, there are other schools if education is the right thing to do in that moment. A kid with these problems has more important issues to work through than education. This particular girl strikes me as terribly troubled. Her other behavior (and coupled with this) seems very personally hostile to her father.
A society that can be brought down by the fact that some guys in San Francisco are doing each other is probably a society that doesn't deserve to continue.
I have more faith in the USA than you do, if you think our society is so weak.
Apparently for all the bible thumping that goes around on this board the quote about judging others seems to be left out.
If your application of this Scripture is sound, perhaps you'd care to expound on how one may " Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you," without making a "judgment?"
Overbreeding and our tendency to pave everything is far more destructive IMHO.
Again, how do you know that? Have you personally polled the employers of America today?
Keyes is a nutcase when it comes to this subject. He is so insanely blinded by his hatred of gays that he gave a speech saying that gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt because the children wouldn't know who their biological parents were, and thus might inadvertently commit incest. He was so desperate to think up reasons to oppose gays doing what they want to do, that he was completely oblivious to the fact that he had just made an argument against allowing ANYONE to adopt, unless both adoptive parents and eventually the child will know who both the child's biological parents are. THAT qualifies as clinical homophobia.
When have I said parents don't have a choice in whether or not to pay for their kids' schooling?
No, but what makes you think that not sending her to Brown will do anything to "cure" her homosexuality?
Okay. LOL! That's true you didn't. You did say you thought they owed it to their kid, but you didn't say they had no choice. It was a rather judgmental statement, however, from someone who preaches non-judgmentalism a lot.
To the extent that there is any growth at all in these countries it is because of immigrants, generally Muslims.
St. Paul would disagree with you...
He threw homosexuals out of his churches.
Ed
Nope. But I've interviewed with law firms that refused to interview anyone who was attending a non Ivy League law school.
If you think that the average employer will not be more inclined to hire a Brown versus Penn State graduate, you're not living in the real world.
You asked a question, I answered it; you didn't like it so you ignored it. The mindset you are preaching is a fast track to extinction and annihilation.
I guess that's why you are "Modernman." ;-)
I'm finished for the day. So long.
I understand there is a hatred of all things gay on this board. I am not enitrely comfortable with them either but Keyes' relationship with his daughter is dysfunctional. I would think that most Freepers would offer words of comfort to the family rather than use this issue to rail against the abnormality of the gay lifestyle.
Wow two old leftists' canards, I can hear Jonie Mitchell singing in the background. The "Population Bomb" didn't occur and we didn't pave over paradise.
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