In the latest in an ever-increasing string of radical right wingers whose children have come out, Alan Keyes’ daughter Maya has acknowledged that she is lesbian. You may remember Alan’s pronouncements at last year’s RNC convention that gay people are “selfish hedonists.”
Now that Maya has come out publicly, her “defend the family” father has told her that she is not welcome in his home, nor will he pay for her tuition to Brown University. This left her homeless. Through the kindness and generosity of the GLBT community, Maya has a place to live again and has received private financial aid so that she will be able to attend college.
I have to wonder, how many of these freaks’ children will have to come out before it dawns on the freaks that maybe their own belief systems need to be re-examined?
Isn’t this the sort of paradox they’d have used to short circuit a computer in the old Star Trek series? … defend family… selfish hedonists… defend family… selfish hedonists… defend family… doe not compute… abort, abort… :: system crashes ::
A long long time ago in a time of my life known as “middle school” my mother and her sisters became fans of a sorta self-help book series by some woman whose name I can’t remember and whose books I can’t remember the titles to. I do remember them always having a cartoon version of the woman on the cover and one book was called “Pack up your Gloomies in a big box” or something.
Anyhow I was at that age where I would read anything I could get my hands on so I decided to read one of the books by the woman. It’s was basically about her life and her family and one chapter that puzzles me even to this day was about when she found out her son was gay. It’s been years since I’ve read it and I only read it once but it has stuck with me for some reason. You see her son was like the most perfect person ever. He had high honors at his school (I wanna say he was valedictorian) and he had perfect manners, loved his family. All that.
One important night (graduation?) his parents found his porn stash in the trunk of his car and he had to admit he was bisexual (the author of the book didn’t know what that meant at the time). Well, what happened was the author and her christian family couldn’t stand it and I remember reading this book as the woman went on and on about her grief. How everyday she would play sad music in her room and cry and cry. How her son eventually cut himself off from the family and changed his name and they don’t even know where he’s at. The author accepted the situation (not that her son was gay but that she’ll never see him again).
My young little mind who had never given much thought to homosexuality or religion couldn’t comprehend this womans pain. Why she was lamenting so much. Why this had caused her relationship with her own son to be shot. Today it still mystifies me.
You know, a lot of “conservative” familys who think they’ve raise their kids “right” have gay kids, they just don’t know it. I found out recently that one of my friends mom teaches gays how to be straight for a living. I think I learned this only a few days after she (the daughter) had given me head while her boyfriend watched.
ANyone who doubts the lunacy of Alan Keyes has but to watch the debate footage of him and Barack Obama. I swear, I didn’t know whether to laugh hysterically, or throw shoes at the television. Sincere, however, he is.
Money quote from Maya: “They say most parents would be thrilled to have a child who doesn’t smoke, have sex, do drugs, hardly drinks. . . , does well in school, gets good grades, gets into the Ivy League. . . , goes regularly to church, spends free time mentoring kids.”
Yeah, you’d think that. :rolleyes: Alan’s a prick.
I don’t feel too sorry for Maya she should know her father better than any of us and have expected such a debacle.
Personally if I was gay and I had a father like that I’d not come out until after he’d funded my education, then I would come out on graduation day and throw it in his face.
I am going to print this page and send it to a fundie I know who thinks ust maybe theres a little funny business going on with SpongeBob. I await her reaction/excuses/hedging/bigotry.
Of course, even better would be one of these right wingers wives coming out.
Her son is apparently not gay anymore, though; he came back to his family about 19 years ago.
Since we’re talking about Keyes, I think he’s making a big mistake. Your kid is your kid, no matter what. Disowning her isn’t going to make her straight OR make her not his kid anymore.
There really needs to be a term for the joy that one feels when a bigoted right wing icon asshole either gets caught up his hypocrisy or sees his little fantasy world bump up against reality.
I suggest “Thurmondfreude”.
All kidding aside, I used to think of Keyes as a joke, but he has exposed himself for what he is–a truly despicable waste of human flesh. I hope that his daughter finds the love that he cannot give him, and I hope that he grows old and dies alone.
Try reading about Spatula Ministries – the original founded by Barbara Johnson and the parallel San Diego ministry founded by Kathleen Bremner. A review of Bremner’s book about her lesbian daughter includes the following quote:
The healing that took place was not his turning straight, but in her finding that God’s strength, mercy, and love led her to accept him as he is.
You see, it’s that first part. I think people like Keyes actually believe that being gay is a ‘lifestyle’. As if the kid woke up one day and said “Hey, I love to be marginalized and persecuted for my choices. I think I’ll go get a girlfriend with short hair and birkenstocks. WOOT!”
And I think they have to believe that. Because if it’s a choice the choosers can be bad people making immoral choices.
If it’s an inherent trait in these folks then the accusers are guilty of discrimination…of persecution…of not loving their fellow man. And that would make them wrong.
What can I say?
“Mister” Keyes is a vile, putrescent, fetid, bilious, gangrenous, odorous, pustulent heap of shit.
So much for defending the family - his at any rate. Only a rancid piece of shit would throw his own child out.
I hope the daughter can, with the help of her true friends, finish college, find a way to become extremely wealthy, and then use that wealth to buy enough power to destroy the old bastard.
Hmm, now this got me to thinking. Short hair is a choice. Birkenstocks are a choice. Other things that are stereotypically gay or lesbian are choices. Could this lend credence to the belief that sexuality itself is a choice? (In case you can’t tell, I am not saying that I believe this, just speculating about how other people think.)
