The daughter herself says that her parents were patient with her until SHE chose to come out publicly that she was a lesbian and that it was a good choice.
I quote her from a newspaper article: Maya was interviewed by “The Advocate” last week via e-mail from a Chicago public library because she had nowhere else to go. She said her parents' initial reaction to news that she was a lesbian was denial. "They said I wasn't really queer--I was either lying about it or just confused or going through a phase or brainwashed, etc. Then they just got angry, upset--my mom in particular," she said. "It was best if we just stayed quiet and pretended the whole queer issue never happened. Occasionally we'd have arguments or long talks where they reminded me how horrible and sinful homosexuality is, but mostly if it didn't come up, our relationship stayed pretty ok. Recently things have gotten a lot worse, though, because I'm not staying quiet about it anymore."
So, a person should not say that Keyes thought it was okay, (he never did), and that it was just blah, blah, blah...I don't like him...blah, blah, blah...
Clearly, they were longsuffering with her until she chose to proclaim what she already knew her parents knew to be sinful behavior.
I think any honest person would have to admit that Alan and his wife never accepted her sinful lifestyle and only kicked her out when she went public. She left them no choice at that point. It was no longer a private family issue that they hoped would heal itself. Instead the daughter made it clear that she was in complete in-your-face rebellion and forced them to act.
It has already been well documented here on FR that Keyes disowned his daughter in response to her political activities, not her sexual proclivities. Her own blog documents how Keyes cut her off in response to her attendance to a counter-inaugural against a sitting president during wartime.
You've explained it to them in the clearest and simplest terms possible, however they refuse to accept the truth There are none more blind than those that will not see. The truth is not in them and you are engaged in an exercise of futility. They hate Keyes, they hate the truth, they hate "repentant" "go and sin no more" true Christianity.