![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msluluGotta love the way the world works sometimes.
From www.politics1.com
VOCAL ANTI-GAY KEYES IS PARENT OF A "SELFISH HEDONIST." A month ago, bombastic US Senate nominee Alan Keyes (R-IL) responded to a question from a radio talk show host by saying that gays were all living in sin and "selfish hedonists" -- and answered that he included the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney in that description. In fact, Keyes frequently denounces gays on the campaign trail. However, it turns out that Keyes' own 19-year-old daughter Maya is an out lesbian. Now -- before everyone gets worked up about violations of privacy or that a candidate's family is "off-limits" -- you should note that Maya Keyes chose to out herself online.
Also, I didn't report on this story until a day after many of the other sites covered it -- so I'm not doing the outing. Maya is featured in a family photo on the Keyes campaign site, and frequently campaigns with her father (although Maya bragged on her own blog site that she usually wears a bunch of "gay pride" rainbow bracelets while doing so). The Chicago political blog Modern Vertebrate first discovered Maya's own blog site, and connected the dots to postings by her on the campaign site that used the same email address. Maya's site has been online for three years, although it appears that she unsuccessfully attempted to hide certain sections of the site in recent days, causing them to be read before she finally deleted several of them on Monday.
Maya wrote how she had a political parent, had moved recently to Calumet City (IL), frequently commutes between Illinois and their family home in Maryland, that she accompanies her family on campaign stops, etc. She also posted various pictures of herself and her girlfriend (above) -- along with one of Maya wearing an anti-Bush sticker while making-out with her girlfriend. Like her father, Maya is vocally pro-life (she equates abortion to lynching on her homepage) -- but she otherwise appears to be very liberal and seemingly supports Nader for President.
Maya also wrote rather revealingly and sadly about her parents: "My parents and I were seriously not getting along and so we needed some time off from each other; the idea was that after a year of being a wonderful good helping-the-poor type person they would once again like me and therefore be willing to pay for my college [at Brown] I'm not so sure that part of it will work; despite the fact that I'm all about working for global justice THEY don't care about that, THEY only care that I am an evil dyke. And even if I am a charitable dyke I am still a dyke who KISSES GIRLS and especially with the gay marriage thing going on now that's at the front of their minds. So I think I might get back to find out they still don't like me and I won't have a college to go to."
And here is what Maya wrote about her parents back on March 3rd: "I remembered pieces of some of my (numerous) conversation/arguments with my parents on the subject of homosexuality. My father, in the middle of explaining why queers are all intrinsically awful people, no matter how lovely they may seem … in the end his argument came down to basically, It’s inherently selfish to be queer because no matter if we say we’re in love it’s only for selfish reasons (read: we just want to hump like bunnies and don’t really care about anything else but physical pleasure) because we don’t have CHILDREN like the beautiful selfless heterosexuals. Ergo, queers live only for self-gratification and no matter what else goes on in their lives, ultimately (consciously or subconsciously) our entire existence is directed towards the purpose of self-seeking pleasure; queers are not capable of anything but selfish actions whether we know it or not. Along the same vein, my mother, after meeting on one of my friends (one of the sweetest, smartest, politest boys I know; someone who would be great to bring home to parents. Any parents but mine.) who she couldn’t help but like, took a while to think of something disparaging to say about him because it is against her principles to actually like any of my friends and finally decided that she didn’t, after all, like him because he had a weak mouth as a result of being one of those homosexuals. She says that homosexuals are all inherently weak people, just as they are all inherently selfish people, because they don’t know how to deny themselves anything."
Consider this a behind-the-scenes look at the sad reality behind Alan Keyes' "family values" rhetoric.
Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 09.28.04 |
From www.politics1.com
VOCAL ANTI-GAY KEYES IS PARENT OF A "SELFISH HEDONIST." A month ago, bombastic US Senate nominee Alan Keyes (R-IL) responded to a question from a radio talk show host by saying that gays were all living in sin and "selfish hedonists" -- and answered that he included the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney in that description. In fact, Keyes frequently denounces gays on the campaign trail. However, it turns out that Keyes' own 19-year-old daughter Maya is an out lesbian. Now -- before everyone gets worked up about violations of privacy or that a candidate's family is "off-limits" -- you should note that Maya Keyes chose to out herself online.
Also, I didn't report on this story until a day after many of the other sites covered it -- so I'm not doing the outing. Maya is featured in a family photo on the Keyes campaign site, and frequently campaigns with her father (although Maya bragged on her own blog site that she usually wears a bunch of "gay pride" rainbow bracelets while doing so). The Chicago political blog Modern Vertebrate first discovered Maya's own blog site, and connected the dots to postings by her on the campaign site that used the same email address. Maya's site has been online for three years, although it appears that she unsuccessfully attempted to hide certain sections of the site in recent days, causing them to be read before she finally deleted several of them on Monday.
Maya wrote how she had a political parent, had moved recently to Calumet City (IL), frequently commutes between Illinois and their family home in Maryland, that she accompanies her family on campaign stops, etc. She also posted various pictures of herself and her girlfriend (above) -- along with one of Maya wearing an anti-Bush sticker while making-out with her girlfriend. Like her father, Maya is vocally pro-life (she equates abortion to lynching on her homepage) -- but she otherwise appears to be very liberal and seemingly supports Nader for President.
Maya also wrote rather revealingly and sadly about her parents: "My parents and I were seriously not getting along and so we needed some time off from each other; the idea was that after a year of being a wonderful good helping-the-poor type person they would once again like me and therefore be willing to pay for my college [at Brown] I'm not so sure that part of it will work; despite the fact that I'm all about working for global justice THEY don't care about that, THEY only care that I am an evil dyke. And even if I am a charitable dyke I am still a dyke who KISSES GIRLS and especially with the gay marriage thing going on now that's at the front of their minds. So I think I might get back to find out they still don't like me and I won't have a college to go to."
And here is what Maya wrote about her parents back on March 3rd: "I remembered pieces of some of my (numerous) conversation/arguments with my parents on the subject of homosexuality. My father, in the middle of explaining why queers are all intrinsically awful people, no matter how lovely they may seem … in the end his argument came down to basically, It’s inherently selfish to be queer because no matter if we say we’re in love it’s only for selfish reasons (read: we just want to hump like bunnies and don’t really care about anything else but physical pleasure) because we don’t have CHILDREN like the beautiful selfless heterosexuals. Ergo, queers live only for self-gratification and no matter what else goes on in their lives, ultimately (consciously or subconsciously) our entire existence is directed towards the purpose of self-seeking pleasure; queers are not capable of anything but selfish actions whether we know it or not. Along the same vein, my mother, after meeting on one of my friends (one of the sweetest, smartest, politest boys I know; someone who would be great to bring home to parents. Any parents but mine.) who she couldn’t help but like, took a while to think of something disparaging to say about him because it is against her principles to actually like any of my friends and finally decided that she didn’t, after all, like him because he had a weak mouth as a result of being one of those homosexuals. She says that homosexuals are all inherently weak people, just as they are all inherently selfish people, because they don’t know how to deny themselves anything."
Consider this a behind-the-scenes look at the sad reality behind Alan Keyes' "family values" rhetoric.
Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 09.28.04 |
