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Backlash builds against Keyes' remarks
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 02, 2004 12:51am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Thursday, September 2, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes stridently defended his statements about the vice president's gay daughter today even as Illinois Republican leaders expressed reactions ranging from dismay to disgust.
Keyes told a New York radio station Monday that homosexuality is "sexual hedonism." In response, the show's host asked if Mary Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, was a "sexual hedonist." Keyes replied: "Of course she is."
"I think those views are not only extreme but offensive," former Gov. James Thompson told reporters during a state delegation breakfast today.
"I think the people of Illinois will find those remarks offensive," Thompson said, "and I think it's an offense to the political process that we have to suffer a candidate on our ticket who says things like that."
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