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.
Oh yea, and too much to drink for a Keyes thread.
I know...........isn't it funny that they're saying some people are "protected?"
That's been hinted at a few times on this thread. And it's a new low.
As you know, I'm no "God hater". I'm a born-again believer in Christ. I am not going to waste my time proving my Christianity to people who think disagreement with Alan Keyes amounts to disagreement with my Lord.
I imagine I am far from alone in that.
You mean you're not my FRuardian Angel?
I made a general statement, if you took offense to it, oh well, nothing I can do to prevent that. Maybe it's your conscience that is bothering you ?
Maya Keyes worked on her father's campaign knowing full well his remarks regarding homosexuality. Also a rank form of hypocrisy."
I have never posted on a "Keyes thread" until late in this one...and I live in Illinois! I haven't followed the controversy or Keyes (believe it or not,) as I wasn't much interested one way or the other, but if what FReeper Heisenberg says is at all true about Keyes bashing Mary Cheney while knowing of his own daughter's homosexuality, then Keyes is disgraceful.
And if it's at ALL true that Keyes at some point cut off communication to his daughter over this...that is disgraceful as well.
New FR poll, can you be a Christain and dislike Alan Keyes? I would love to see those results.
My conscience has no reason to be worried; it's Mr. Keyes' conscience that should be bothering him.
After all, even he admits he has known about Maya's sexual proclivities for months; so I suppose one can assume the only reason he "disowned" her now is that it's after the election and she came out in public.
As long as she kept quiet about it, he was fine with it. And how could one come to that conclusion? Simple: he campaigned with her while she was a LESBIAN.
Well, brace yourself, every single word of that is true.
She has the problem not him, when you admit that, get back with me.
She wasn't a problem to him until she came out.
Did you read the post about her being involved with some anarchist queer group ? She definitely has a problem.
Is it possible that they both have problems? Howlin made a good point in her post. Can you ignore it?
Like I said, he didn't have a problem with her being gay until she came out in public.
I'm sure his heart is broken over her, should she be proud of that ?
I can imagine that her heart might be broken, too.
Yes. It sounds like disgracefulness all the way around in the family.
That would be interesting, yes.
You can, apparently, be a Christian and not only disagree with President Bush, but call him all sorts of bad things.
I learned that on these threads, too.
Yes, as his daughter.
"...the bullet that kills you..."
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