Reply #6: Here's the most interesting part:

[ruggerson]

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She shares some of her dad's political and religious foundations. She is religious and deeply opposes abortion, viewing it as the taking of life.

Still, when I asked Maya whether she is glad her father lost the election, she stopped short. "Should you really be asking that question? I mean, I suppose there is a conflict, but I'm not sure I wanted him to lose. I disagree with nearly all his views, but he's very honest and has a lot of integrity."

If she could talk to her parents now, she would tell them she does not intend to hurt them by going public. "I wish the fact that I was gay was not something that would hurt them either," she says. "It wasn't anything they did that made me this way. I really don't see why what I think should affect him in any way."

...But her friends told her no, there was nothing remotely inevitable about the break, that political differences and even sexual orientation ought not result in being kicked out. Maya wrote: "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."


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So, you have a daughter who is pro-life, is religious, mentors kids, does well in school, gets into an ivy league school, and yet her parents have completely cut her off, emotionally, simply because nature hotwired her to be a lesbian.

Therein is the big lie of the religious rightwingers. Keyes is truly a monster and a prevaricator. He should be proud of this young woman, yet he holds tenaciously to his mentally ill deranged views on homosexuality and BLAMES his own daughter for her orientation.

How totally depraved.