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Anti-gay bias hits home in the Keyes household
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| Last Edited | COSDem Feb 21, 2005 04:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Monday, February 21, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Alan Keyes owns one of the most frothing mouths of the Republican Party, which is really saying a lot on some moral issues. Mention homosexuality and you can barely see his face for the white of his foam. He should consult Vice President Dick Cheney for a chill pill.
During his 1996 run for the White House, Keyes said, "If we accept the homosexual agenda, which seeks recognition for homosexual marriages, we will be destroying the integrity of the marriage-based family."
In his 2000 run, he said the granting of civil unions means "you've legitimized pedophilia." For all this outrage about pedophilia, it is curious that Keyes, a radio talk-show host, can barely be found on the record railing against the Catholic Church during the clergy child sex abuse scandal.
During the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, Keyes gave a radio interview where he said homosexuality is "selfish hedonism." The interviewer asked Keyes if that meant that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney, was also a selfish hedonist. Keyes said: "Of course she is. That goes by definition. Of course she is."
The next day, Keyes added: "If my daughter were a lesbian, I'd look at her and say, `That is a relationship that is based on selfish hedonism.' I would also tell my daughter that it's a sin and she needs to pray to the lord God to help her deal with that sin."
That addition was very peculiar to his daughter. Maya Marcel-Keyes, 19, said her parents had already told her she was a sinner after finding out she was gay near the end of high school. "It was kind of strange that he said it like a hypothetical," Marcel-Keyes told the Washington Post in a profile published recently. "It was really kind of unpleasant |
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