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.

Keyes doesn't have to accept your daughter's lifestyle, but I believe he does have to accept her and not estrange himself from her. Throwing your kid out of the house is something that I think would be appropriate if your child is a drug addict or serious juvenille delinquent, but I think that just because your child's gay, that shows some cold-heartedness. There's a reason why she's gone to the more radical groups; they're giving her acceptance, something her dad refuses to do.

As for throwing stones in glass houses, I've said before that Keyes spends his time holding himself of as morally superior while he's had serious problems with his daughter for awhile. That's most definitely a sin, and I believe that someone guilty of that big a sin really is in no position to judge others as harshly as he has.

But such is called for in Scripture.Those who refuse to repent are to be cut off. Sometimes one needs to feel the
pain of being cut off before they can repent. In American history afte rThomas Paine wrote his blasphemous Age of Reason,1794, he was cut off. He was forced to flee to
Europe and lived the rest of his wretched life in exile--
most of those who had supported him before that book refused to even speak to him-after. And before he died he
lamented at ever having published that book. Alan Keyes feels no greater,nor less pain than ANY whose children are
caught in that web of homosexual deciet. IMO he has made the only choice open to a Christian -if the reports are true.And only God knows if the girl will be cut off forever.

"the "acceptance" of homosexuality is a relatively new phenomenon"

So is:
1) human flight
2) antibiotics
3) interracial marriage
4) freedom from slavery
5) the fight against racism
6) capitalism (by your 4000 year scale)
7) spongebob

There's more to the bible than homosexuality being a sin, and that's what's really defined our civilization. Homosexuality affects a very small percentage of our population, and many of its members are that way for a variety of reasons.
Regarding "last gasp of a dying culture": I'd say that allowing abortions would be on that list. Another thing would be any kind of tyrany, or corruption in the government. Homosexual marriage is the last gasp of a dying custom, and I'll grant that there are serious issues there to contend with. It might be better for gay activists if they stuck to "civil unions".

"Sounds to me like you condon homosexuality and the way you talk your probably one so I will pray for you and her to see the light."

Just because I don't drop to my knees and pray for the souls of homosexuals doesn't mean I drop to my knees AS a homosexual. Your a bit freaked out by homosexuals, I understand it, but you have nothing to fear. They pay their taxes just like us, they shop and contribute to the economy, they hold the door for you if your hands are full, they play with puppies, etc. Just like us. And don't date the way we do.

You can put away your derogatory ad hominems, little man.

You were the first to use derogatory ad hominems, you little worm, so stuff that stupid remark back in your mouth.

How many whites would this tax plan include?

Obviously, for you, slavery is all about race. For myself and Keyes it is about inhumanity and injustice.

Keyes played right into the hands of the reparations sharks with his "tax break" idea.?

The plan he proposed would make those "reparations sharks" choke. Not a single one would endorse it. It was meant to take the steam out of their sails and as long as any Republican supports it it would do just that. No liberal would ever support it because the results would confirm the efficacy of conservative principles and expose the failure and harm of liberal policies.

Tax breaks based on race are racial preferences. Period.

The fact that that flatly contradicts the unequivocal statement Dr. Keyes made about it makes your statement a purely racist thing to say.

You're full of it, from stem-to-stern, as usual. Does that bug-eyed silliness you routinely engage in ever get tiresome? Just curious...

It's hard to deal with such a substantive point-by-point rebuttal as this. Where did you find the time to do all that research?

Have you noticed that Keyes got laughed off the stage when he made his reparations proposal?

You don't have to believe what I say, but the fact that Keyes got NO traction indicates that his idea went over with conservatives like a lead balloon.

But, you are free to persist in your delusions about Keyes' proposal.

Keyes advocated a race based tax abatement for African- Americans ...

That's not true and if you had read what I posted quoting Dr. Keyes you would know that.

But a simple Google search using the key words Keyes, Alan, Reparations should resolve any remaining doubts you may have.

Sometimes you have to do more work than that. I did a Google search and failed to find Alan Keyes own webpage within the first 3-4 pages of Google. Nothing but conservative carping for the most part. No substantive rebuttals. I prefer to judge a man's words by reading his words not what someone else says he meant.

Have you noticed that Keyes got laughed off the stage when he made his reparations proposal?

I didn't see or hear that. Even though you have zero credibility I'll give the benefit of the doubt that it happened. So what? Liberals hate the idea because it promotes tax-breaks (that work) and steals an issue from them. A lot of conservatives, like you, see it as a matter of race or are otherwise too willfully ignorant to understand what Keyes is saying. Or why.

...the fact that Keyes got NO traction indicates that his idea went over with conservatives like a lead balloon.

Again, that's a meaningless observation. Every criticism I've heard shows either a lack of understanding of conservatism or Dr. Keyes plain english, or both.

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.

Sadly, this is the proper response--at least at first.

Clearly, this young lady's "coming out" is a cry for attention. This seems to be very common among the children of emminent people today--particularly conservatives. Somewhere in the child's mind, is a festering bitterness toward the absentee parent which manifests itself as a desire on the part of the child to become that which the parent most despises. What better way to get the parent's attention?

Of course, this subconscious desire is fed by a "support network" of deviants which the child can readily meet on any college campus. This group of freaks knows exactly how to feed the bitterness, empathize with the child, and lead them farther into rebellion and degeneracy.

Parents BEWARE! Here's a good resource:

A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality

You can get in a urination match with the Bushbots who are honked because of Alan's words that have been used against the President.

Fine.

The bigger challenge and question is why would someone who is so close the God, have a child schooled in a Godly manner, raised in a home where God appears to be pinnacle, churched in the same manner and know since she was an early teen that she was gay (in her own words).

I know that she's young and could have a change of heart ergo Franklin Graham or the Jane Doe in Roe v Wade.

Why would Alan use her during his campaign with colors on (photos were displayed here when this first came up last fall) and then suddenly decide to cut her off?

I'm all for tough love. But I also believe that you still have there and the child know it in some way and some form. To completely shut one out is going too far. There are many sins. How and where do you draw the line between what you let pass and where you draw a line in the sand.

Somewhere in the child's mind, is a festering bitterness toward the absentee parent which manifests itself as a desire on the part of the child to become that which the parent most despises.

I've brougth this up elsewhere on this tread. No one has taken the time to address it. I bet there's more there than meets the eye.

Anyways, I think it serves him right for going out and judging VP Cheney for loving his daughter.

You still haven't posted Dr. Keyes words that show how he was "judging VP Cheney for loving his daughter" so that others can see it for themselves.

If you want to see a "conservative" spin lies into truths like a liberal just mention Alan Keyes.

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