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.
You people are really disgusting.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, nothig like some good old hyperbolic, hyperemotional rhetoric in leiu of a rational, cogent response, eh? :-)
So colleges are now giving scholarships base on sexual preference? Will it ever end for the lefties...
They have allowed their headstrong adult daughter to live the lifestyle she has chosen, completely free of any interference. How is that wrong?
The voters in the middle of the political spectrum are
electing Republicans. It ain't the 4-5 percent of voters
who follow the fundie nutcase preachers.
They have allowed their headstrong adult daughter to live the lifestyle she has chosen, completely free of any interference. Don't you agree that is a good thing?
Welcome to the world of postmodernist, feel good churchianity. Satan has infiltrated churches in the niceties of subjective feel goodism that denies and opposes Biblical tenets and Biblical faith.
Guys like Keyes are their own worst enemy. He's like a black Pat Buchanan-intelligent and articulate, maybe, but his train keeps going off the rails.
To disown a child because of his or her sexuality is a disgrace. And those of you who are equating her lesbianism with rape are so ridiculous you are an embarrassment to Republicans everywhere.
Everyone is a sinner but I guess you all think your sins are better than hers. More acceptable.
God help all of you.
"You people"? Is that a bigoted statement?
OK, he could have told her he was cutting off her housing and college funds before she took a sememster off from college to help him in the election.
He already knew she was a lesbian.
He's being a hypocrite to cut off her housing and college funds only after he used her services.
Keyes has allowed his headstrong adult daughter to live the lifestyle she has chosen, completely free of any interference. How is that a "train going off the tracks"?
That's fine, I could even see myself doing that. I
wouldn't tell the world about it just to impress
my fellow nutcase fundies.
Get a grip. The only bigots on this thread are the ones who think it's okay to disown a child because of their sexuality. And it's not bigotry - it's homophobia, fyi.
And now, thankfully, I have to go out and leave you all to your tittering little mean spirited, unChristian-like comments.
I see, so you are now the sole judge for everything right and wrong. You set the standard based on your own subjective feelings of what is moral or immoral.
That concept is like having your feet planted firmly in mid-air.
This side of the aisle has questioned ol' Jess Jackson
sources of income for years.
Wonder who Alan Keyes gets his W-2's or 1099's from?
Shame on her for rubbing her perversion in her father's face. That is not honoring your father and mother, as is commanded by God. Why can these people not shut up about their sex lives? No normal people I know define themselves by their sexual activities. I am beginning to think it is a mental illness.
I doubt that immensely otherwise they would do it
Sounds like his daughter is 'acting out' - I am sure it was an extremely tough decision for Alan Keyes. From the little I know about this - I'd say his daughter was deliberately trying to make this a public issue. She clearly lacks any respect for herself or her father. His daughter had no ones interests in mind but her own.
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