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[kcobweb]

My entry earlier (Bushie censorship of GAYNESS) reminded me of thoughts I was having last night - I caught a news story that Alan Keyes' 19-year-old daughter has come out of the closet. I started thinking - what is it about these arch-conservative politician types that seems to cause their female relations to be lesbians? (Okay, I don't know that I mean for that to necessarily be a cause-and-effect kind of an implication, but I don't feel like figuring out another way to phrase it.) Alan Keyes, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich..... Is it really a cause and effect? Or is this "happening" in their families just as much as in other families, only it's more newsworthy in theirs because of their political/public rhetoric? And why is it always the women in their families and never the men?

(To his credit, Cheney has been more moderate on the issue than I would have expected of him - say, gay marriage - barring the whole post-debate non-issue of I-can't-believe-you-outed-my-already-out-daughter!!!)

Anyway, just wondering aloud....

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[xen-opus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Alan Keyes is a real peach of a guy. The family-values conservative kicked out his own daughter and cut off her college tuition until she renounces her hedonistic ways.

Somewhere around the web there was a further quote from Keyes, perpetuating the Big Lie theory of the current administration: he says something to the effect that cutting off his daughter has nothing to do with politics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28639-2005Feb16.html

[trope.livejournal.com]

I'm so sad that Alan Keyes plans to remain in my state.

There are, frankly, a few days where I wish I were lesbian because it would fit in so nicely with many of my political views--because it is such an effective, round rejection of the patriarchy. But alas, I like the boys. One boy in particular.

I'm not accusing Ms. Keyes or Ms. Gingrich or Ms. Cheney of being gay just to get back at their fathers, but I do appreciate the lovely irony and their fathers' inability to hide from the Big Lies. And although I will not confirm or deny my position on the "born gay" vs. "choosing gayness" debate, I will say, to anyone who will listen, "WHY DOES IT MATTER?"