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Sadly for Maya Keyes, her father apparently has more affection for his ideology than for his daughter.

Media types like this love making stuff up.

From the Maya Keyes interview the other day on CNN:

BLITZER: So what then happened? Has there been a complete falling-out now between you and your father?
KEYES: No. I love my parents very much. And they love me. And they disagree with what I'm doing at the moment. And, as such, they can't support me in this activity, but they are still always going to love me. I know that.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/14/wbr.01.html

Alan Keyes:

"If my own daughter were a homosexual, or a lesbian, I would love my daughter, but I would tell my daughter that she was in sin," Keyes said in August.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/021405_ns_keyesdaughter.html

The author of the NY Times article apparently believes that condemning a sin means hating the "sinner." Sad.

Also, the author's claim that Ms. Keyes' parents "kicked her out of the house" is contradicted by this:

The friend says Maya has not been kicked out of the family home, but she is no longer welcomed to stay at the downtown Chicago apartment that Keyes and members of his new political organization use.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/021405_ns_keyesdaughter.html
An aide to Alan Keyes tells CNN Maya worked for an Illinois political group run by Keyes and lived in a Chicago apartment paid for by that group. The aide says Maya and her father mutually agreed she should leave that group and therefore she's no longer eligible to live in the apartment. That was after Maya went to an anti-Bush protest during last month's inauguration.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/14/wbr.01.html

And then there are the reports that her parents stopped speaking to her. Untrue, according to this:

TODD: A source close to the Keyes family says this whole situation has been devastating for everyone concerned, but the source says, through it all, Maya and her parents are still speaking -- Wolf.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/14/wbr.01.html

Once again, in the rush to push its agenda, the media gets "a little carried away."