2.14.2005
Alan Keyes. Fighter, not a lover.
Ahhh, compassionate conservatism. It looks as if Alan Keyes, recently in the public eye from his transplant to Illinois and record drubbing by Democratic Rockstar Barak Obama, has disowned his daughter because she is liberal and gay.
Now Maya Keyes -- liberal, lesbian and a little lost -- finds herself out on her own. She says her parents -- conservative commentator and perennial candidate Alan Keyes and his wife, Jocelyn -- threw her out of their house, refused to pay her college tuition and stopped speaking to her.
"As long as I was quiet about being gay or my politics, we got along," she says. "Then I went to the Counterinaugural," last month's protests in Washington against President Bush. "My father didn't like that."
"It all seems kind of ridiculous," she says, "because I love him. He's my father." A man who specializes in explaining the complexities of a trying world ought to be able to see something as simple as that.
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