Alan Keyes' daughter comes out

[Miss Modular]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...le673732.shtml

Alan Keyes' Daughter Coming Out
Feb. 13, 2005

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.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

I thought she already did.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Wow....talk about compassionate.....ditching your child because of their sexual orientation.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Alan Keyes is an exceptional douche bag. I don't know that it's even fair to lump other conservatives in with him.....

[ziggytrix]

Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore

I thought she already did.

The story is dated 12 days ago.

[El Blanco]

Marcel-Keyes grew up in Darnestown, Md., attended a conservative Catholic school for girls

So, all those movies I downloaded were right.


I'll give this much to Keyes, he's consistent.

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by Miss Modular

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.

She is paying for Brown F'N University by herself?! Yeah, right.

P.S. A lil' melodrama goes a long way.

[sspadowsky]

I'm experiencing major Schadenfreude as a result of this story. :D