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.

Your post is 1000% on the mark.

Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as those who lie with a female; it is an abomination."

Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination and they shall surely be put to death."

This whole incident kind of shows you the difference between real Christians, like the Cheneys, who love their daughter no matter what, and phonies, like the Keyes, who are too busy throwing stones in glass houses.

Is it love to let your child continue in a lifestyle that alienates them from God and condemns them according to scripture?

"You are blind to your idol's feet of clay. Dr. Keyes does not walk on water. In this instance, he played the hypocrite in his labeling and condemning another man's daughter when he kept silent about the mote in his own eye. That is hypocrisy."

Huh? "Blind to you idol's feet of clay"? He's not my idol. LOL! Nor does anyone "walk on water."

Obviously he's not impressed with lesbians either or he wouldn't have "thrown her out" of his house. If he didn't throw her out and exalted lesbianism then I'd say he was a hypocrite. I think he called his daughter a "liberal queer". No, don't see any hypocrisy here. He's consistent and condemns it. I also agree with his assessment of Cheny's daughter - "selfish hedonism." All Keyes did was denounce it - Cheney's daughter and now his own. Try double checking what hypocrisy means instead of this childish tirade of words.

I have to admit I do think you are amusing. Looks like you really HATE Keyes. Perhaps you'd be happier in your rage on a liberal forum. I'm sure they see it the way you do.

In this instance, he played the hypocrite in his labeling and condemning another man's daughter when he kept silent about the mote in his own eye. That is hypocrisy.

Do we know when she told him and when she told the public. If she told him prior to going public, would you consider it okay for him to break the news publicly about her, instead of her doing it herself?

You would light a single candle and not lift a finger to defend the prey from the predators.

On the basis of the Bible verse I posted to you, you've now decided that I'm a liar, and that I support pedophiles and rapists?

Seek help.

I think I must read a different Bible than some of these people.

In my Bible, Jesus had sympathy for those who were considered sinners, unclean, and demon-possessed. He healed them and forgave their sins.

Jesus seems to have saved his contempt for those who were contemptuous of the "sinners" - the scribes and Pharisees who felt they were much more righteous than others.

Today, some of those who claim to be acting in Jesus' name seem to act more like the scribes and Pharisees, IMO.

It's probably a big misunderstanding on my part though, isn't it?

Sounds like the proper response. Choices have consequences...

And he is not being a hypocrite and putting his child before God and morality. I commend him for being true to his beliefs. Hopefully his daughter will repent. The best thing he can do for her is give her a consistent and true message so she can have a barometer of right and wrong to help her find her way back.

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