Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out

(CBS) The 19-year-old daughter of Alan Keyes has a Valentine for the anti-gay rights conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate.

Maya Marcel-Keyes will be making her first public appearance as a gay activist at a Valentine Day's rally in front of the Maryland State House, says Dan Furmansky, the leader of Equality Maryland, a gay rights group.

Last summer her father, a conservative pundit and frequent Republican candidate, caused a stir during the Republican convention by labeling Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter a sinner and calling homosexuality "selfish hedonism."

"It was kind of strange that he said it like a hypothetical," she told the Washington Post. "It was really kind of unpleasant."

Marcel-Keyes told the Post her parents have thrown her out of the house, stopped speaking to her and refuse to pay for college because she is gay. She said she loves her parents.

Keyes' Web site says he is against "the homosexual rights agenda, including same-sex marriage."

Marcel-Keyes grew up in Darnestown, Md., attended a conservative Catholic school for girls in McLean, Va., spent a year in the south of India advocating tribal rights, and plans to attend Brown University this fall, according to an Equality Maryland press release.

Furmansky told CBSNews.com that Marcel-Keyes would not be speaking to the media ahead of Monday's rally, and probably not afterward, either.

Bloggers have identified her Web site as http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Xmisled0youthX. The author of the blog says it is public and she has nothing to hide.

When I was reading this story, it struck me as odd that the media is so aghast when someone is called a "sinner". We're all sinners. And a lot of people on this thread would be wise to remember that, too.

Sometime you have to go over the top to get your point across with all the presure from the outside. We are learning that "being gay" is a choice. Just like drugs and alochol. I am not perfect and my boys aren't either but not taking a strong stand on right and wrong as one knows, is the same as doing nothing.

You want added context. So add it.

This is an excellent homage to Lincoln and the Civil War in the form of a political response to "reparations." It gives great context to asinine remarks like "Alan Keyes is for reparations."

Paid in blood April 1, 2002

"But the truth of the Civil War is that the terrible price for American slavery has been paid, once for all, by the American people's deliberate acceptance of their duty to pay it when, in God's providence, Southern intransigence brought it due."

It's hard to imagine a parent disowning a kid over heterosexual sin these days, but the general consensus sure seems to be that disowning one over being gay is not only all right, but it's the only thing you could do.
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You are so right Thank GOD they didn't call me on it. I don't know what I would have done. (but they don't know that)

exempt those who are the descendants of slaves, who bear the wounds, in fact, of that legacy, exempt them from federal taxation for a certain length of time. And in doing so, without taking money out of anybody else's pocket, you give them an incentive to work, to save, and invest, that would help to put a strong foundation under their future.

Except that the rest of us have to make up for the taxes that Michael Jordan (and presumably Alan Keyes) would not be paying.

Why does Oprah Winfrey need an incentive to save and invest?

Keyes is totally and completely wrong to buy into this "legacy of slavery" nonsense. There is not a single progeny of a slave alive today that is hamstrung by that fact.

It's a convenient excuse for black failure, however.

I don't believe that he and his wife have stopped loving their daughter. They have set Godly standards and she has defied them. She's an adult. There's no reason why she should be living off Daddy and Mommy.

I think it's a case-by-case thing; I've had four different people I love "come out" to me and I haven't dumped any of them, but only one is in contact with me now. At least two of the three who drifted off are under the delusion that you can't really love someone unless you endorse their lifestyle as perfectly fine in all respects. I, meanwhile, believe love is about accepting people despite their flaws, not pretending they don't exist. (Notice that their "Love means endorsement" doesn't go in my direction; they have no endorsement for my belief in the Bible and Christian orthodoxy.) The 1 left out of the four accepts me despite the "flaw" of going to Alan Keyes rallies and supporting the gay marriage ban, and I return the acceptance despite issues that aren't terribly comfortable.

That said, however, there is no reason for any parents to keep paying tuition for kids who reject everything they stand for. If she was a heterosexual slut or declared herself to be an atheist or communist, her parents should have cut her off as well.

I wonder.

Truth be told, you don't "wonder" at all; you merely accuse by implication in your spastically repetitive postings.

How so conveniently it is that you fail to mention the very likely possibility of abuse at the hands of an aggressive, predatory homosexual who preys upon individuals of weaker personal constitutions.

What always seems so phoney to me is that the media tell us there is nothing wrong with being gay- yet delight in "tattling" that someone is gay - esp when it is a conservative's family member. If it is no big deal... why a national story each time ?

Also, consider this: If you overlook the homosexuality, you're a hypocrite, like Dick Cheney and Phylis Schaffly. If you consider it so unacceptable you kick the kid out, you are a hypocrite, like Alan Keyes.

As usual, liberals get to have it both ways. And they don't have to tell you about Sonny Bono and his daughter either, they can just ignore that.

Tell it to somebody who thinks you have a leg to stand on.

I proved you wrong on the points I said you were wrong on. Something you are too cowardly and hypocritical to ever admit.

The fact that you oppose a tax break proves that you are no conservative. (As if that isn't blatantly obvious from your daily ravings.) To say that letting a citizen keep more of the money they earn is taking anything from someone else is Marxist to the core.

How so conveniently it is that you fail to mention the very likely possibility of abuse at the hands of an aggressive, predatory homosexual who preys upon individuals of weaker personal constitutions.

You can prove this? And remember, she has had all the necessary tools to prepare her for a stong personal constitution....strong moral family, strong moral schooling, strong moral faith education.

Good observation.

It isn't homosexuality these supposed conservatives have a problem with. It is that branch of conservatism known as social conservatism. Keyes is a prominent social conservative; hence their displeasure and disdain (even greater than the displeasure and disdain they have for Cheney).

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