Savage on Keyes

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Dan Savage on Maya Keyes, the lesbian daughter of conservative idiot Alan Keyes:

But I can’t enjoy this news about Maya Keyes as much as most gays and lesbians. As a parent, you see, I feel Alan Keyes’s pain – and Randall Terry’s too. I can empathize with their desire not to see their children grow up to be one of us because I live in mortal fear of my child growing up to be one of them.

As a gay parent, Dan Savage always has an interesting perspective on things.

7 thoughts on “Savage on Keyes”

  1. I’m torn about this as well. I agree with Savage that graciousness is key here, rather than sinking to the level of the cretins of the religious right.

    However, the louder someone like Alan Keyes yells, the more that the “mainstream” Republican party (and I’m sure it must still exist) has to deal with him and distance itself from his rhetoric.

    The filth that Keyes spews at every opportunity may well shock the heretofore silent Republican moderates into realizing just how far to the right their Grand Old Party has swung and spur them to take it back to more moderate positions on a variety of issues.

    I mean, come on, even the Cheneys didn’t publicly condemn their own daughter. Anything that can get a moderate Republican thinking has to be good, right?

  2. As usual Dan Savage gets it wrong. I have yet to hear of anyone finding the Keyes story a cause for celebration. Republican homophobes with gay/lesbian offspring is nothing new. But tossing said offspring into the street with $20 to her name is a new low.

    Alan Keyes is off his rocker. But judging from what I’ve read so far, Maya Keyes has a good head on her young shoulders and I wish her well — as do countless others in the ever-fractious gay community

  3. Dan Savage gets what wrong, exactly? He never says anything about finding the Keyes story a “cause for celebration,” and he is far from a Keyes apologist, as your photo labels him. I think he’s making the point that having a child who’s gay is much better than having a child who’s intolerant and bigoted. Don’t knock Savage’s point here just because you don’t like other things he writes.

  4. My photo labels him an Andrew Sullivan apologist. He speaks of schadenfreude as a typical gay response to the emergence of Maya Keyes. Moreover talks about his own parenting situation as if there were a zero analogy at play — with his kid potentially stepping out of his and Terry’s line and becoming a Republican. Well frankly that wouldn’t be much of a step.

    “Don’t knock Savage’s point here just because you don’t like other things he writes. “

    I’ll kick his skinny ass from here to the moon if necessary.

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