Republican disowns lesbian daughter

[emad]

Gary Younge
Saturday February 26, 2005
The Guardian

When the leading Republican and rightwing pundit Alan Keyes was asked what he thought of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of the US vice-president, he called her "a selfish hedonist". If his own daughter came out as a lesbian, said Mr Keyes, he would say the same thing.
So when Mr Keyes' only daughter, Maya Marcel-Keyes, declared herself a "liberal queer" at a public rally he lived up to his word. Her parents turned her out of their house, broke off all communication and stopped paying her university tuition fees.

Ms Keyes told a rally supporting gay young people in Maryland: "We have to figure out what we can do to make sure that during those times when it seems like everything in the world is turning against them, like everyone in the world is rejecting them, that they know there are resources out there they can turn to; there are people out there who will say to them, 'I care'."

Ms Keyes joins a list of gay people with rightwing relatives, including Mary Cheney and Candace Gingrich, the sister of Republican congressman Newt Gingrich. But Mr Keyes, a darling of the religious right, has been more outspoken on the issue than most.

Ms Keyes says her parents were "not too pleased" when she came out. "Things just came to a head. Liberal queer plus conservative Republican just doesn't mesh well."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1425698,00.html

[Sinistrous]

1. Perhaps the esteemed uberChristian, Mr. Keys, should read the parable of

the prodigal son, with an eye to the fact that Jesus was talking more about the father than the son: "...and he ran out to greet him..."

[barbaraann]

2. Dr. Phil would not approve.

I saw one of his shows where he was dealing with a single mother and her (underage) lesbian daughter. He forcefully got the mother to see that the most important person in each of their lives was each other and what outsiders thought didn't matter, but he did say that an underage person should not be sexually active at all.

[RealLifeNM]

3. His Daughter...His Choice!!! NT

[niceypoo]

9. Only a republican would choose the party over their children

Even aardvarks instinctively protect their children. Looks like aardvarks have higher morality than repukes.

[RealLifeNM]

10. I disagree....

I know that I read on here ( cant remember where) that someone was disowning their son because he was a republican. There are idiots on both sides of the spectrum.

[niceypoo]

11. Please show us the post where someone said that

Put up or shut up. It does not exist and you know it. Why do I get the feeling that you spend an inordinate amount of time obsessed with "fags"?

[RealLifeNM]

12. Oh please

I prefaced the statement with I dont remember where......

[Vickers]

13. Yeah, that's on a par with "it's been reported"

Now, where have I heard that phrase...?

[tx_dem41]

16. Sadly, niceypoo, I have seen posts in that vain several

times in my three months at DU. I don't get it, but they do exist.

[Goldmund]

14. I thought it was "his daughter, his choice" -- now it's an "idiot"

So which is it?

[foreigncorrespondent]

15. Choice huh?

So it is ok for the slime ball repuke fucks to spout of at the mouth about family values and morality, yet at the same time disown a child because of who that child happens to fall in love with? So much for family values and morality, huh?

[robbedvoter]

18. Hi Alan! Whow's the wife, kids? oops! Just the wife then?

Strange definition for "choice" dear. Are we talking about a very late term abortion? And if we are, it should be a BAAD thing, non?

[smirkymonkey]

20. Could you be any MORE obvious?

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. IIRC, she spoke at the rally after her parents cut her off

The article has cause-and-effect reversed, I think.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. It's Republican family values

Cut off your children if they don't conform.

[barbaraann]

6. Kill them if God tells you to.

n/t

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Indeed

[Spirochete]

8. Keyes is a nutjob

Carpetbagger=good
Carpetmuncher=bad

Pretty flimsy excuse to disown one's daughter. She's been loyal to him, and even went against her beliefs to campaign for him, but he can't sidestep his beliefs even enough to support her as his daughter.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Will Alan Keyes shove his lesbian daughter into the gas chamber?

You bet he would! And this religious psychopath would probably say that he was doing the Lord's work in gassing his daughter for her sexual identity. Those that hold hateful beliefs will always act out on them!

[usregimechange]

19. Now that is family values.

[tjdee]

21. That is majorly fucked up and very sad.

What a punk Keyes is.