Posted on 02/26/2005 1:27:31 PM PST by srm913
Republican disowns lesbian daughter
Gary Younge Saturday February 26, 2005
Guardian When the leading Republican and rightwing pundit Alan Keyes was asked what he thought of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of the US vice-president, he called her "a selfish hedonist". If his own daughter came out as a lesbian, said Mr Keyes, he would say the same thing.
So when Mr Keyes' only daughter, Maya Marcel-Keyes, declared herself a "liberal queer" at a public rally he lived up to his word. Her parents turned her out of their house, broke off all communication and stopped paying her university tuition fees.
Ms Keyes told a rally supporting gay young people in Maryland: "We have to figure out what we can do to make sure that during those times when it seems like everything in the world is turning against them, like everyone in the world is rejecting them, that they know there are resources out there they can turn to; there are people out there who will say to them, 'I care'."
Ms Keyes joins a list of gay people with rightwing relatives, including Mary Cheney and Candace Gingrich, the sister of Republican congressman Newt Gingrich. But Mr Keyes, a darling of the religious right, has been more outspoken on the issue than most.
Ms Keyes says her parents were "not too pleased" when she came out. "Things just came to a head. Liberal queer plus conservative Republican just doesn't mesh well."
Her older brother has offered her somewhere to stay and she has been given a scholarship to continue at college.
"My daughter is an adult, and she is responsible for her own actions. What she chooses to do has nothing to do with my work or political activities," Mr Keyes said in a statement.
Ms Keyes says she loves her parents and "totally understands" their position.
mental typo
a play called Hudibras by Samuel Butler.
Sorry to hear that, it must be painful for you. However I feel you're absolutely right in what you're doing, true love demands it and her eternity hangs in the balance. Is Keyes doing any less?
Has your daughter accepted your terms and still visits?
Nope He answered that.
Mar 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mar 2:17 When Jesus heard [it], he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
They were sinners who would repent.(at least the prostitutes). Sinners, get it?
..and I disagree with you.
I wish you would read James Dobson's Love Must Be Tough.
It is not un-Christian..to put limitations on a wayward adult..family member.
Her defiance is breathtaking....
...even good families have children who rebel....
..and a father certainly isn't called to fund the rebellion!
This is a stretch comparison....but many in our country ....for a while...shunned and distanced itself from France and anything French, when France deliberately spit in our face politically.
Why should this be any different?
Do you not think this man & his wife are heartbroken over their daughter....!!
That's sad....
..I'm seeing a whole different you from the one I see on ATRW.
Guess I'm naive.
Regarding post #94
Ask Jim.
There is a strange correlation with the higher the degree you have the less common sense you believe in. At least that's my experience with highly degreed people. Or maybe it's those types are the ones that get all the attention because most of them are so whacky. I dunno, but it seems true in most cases.
I don't know that Keyes isn't sold out to to being a right wing showman politician who couldn't stand the image of a gay daughter.
I'm sure he loves her, but he might love the image of his career more.
He's just as human as anyone else.
I think it's like I said, the flakes tend to stand out more and brag about all the degrees they have while they make complete asses of themselves and the really smart people you don't even know about until you query them on a subject.
Proof? Or shall we just take your word for it "scouts honor"?
You've outed youself as a Christian bashing homosexual apologist/propaganda peddler, well versed in the homosexual agenda talking points.
Just thought i'd let you know there will be no pro homosexual propaganda statments made on FR that do not go unchallenged where facts, proof, and evidence are concerned.
Oh- BTW Keyes is right where his Christianity is concerned.
Let the dead bury the dead. --Jesus
“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” And pointing toward his disciples he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
Keyes has become something even worse than the Dr. Laura Schlessinger of American politics.
I find it highly ironic that the Keyes-bashers base their attacks on him on the word of one of the world's foremost leftwing fishwraps. They've sunk to a new low.
The Guardian is so bad, though, that if you wrapped fish in it, it would make the fish smell bad...
LOL! Ever notice that the Keyes threads brings out the "Fundie"* bashers? *The leftists and atheists term for "go and sin no more" Christians that follow Christ as their example.
Yeah, screaming at the top of their lungs, "HATERS!", and exclaiming against those who live in glass houses throwing stones, as they themselves throw stones from the front steps of their glass houses...
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