Burnt Orange Report

Alan Keyes is just disgusting. Imagine the self-loathing at the very core of his identity. He's a black man who thinks his people are inferior, an affirmative action beneficiary who thinks atoning for past racism is wrong, and a hyper-Christian homophobe whose daughter just came out of the closet. I'd almost feel sorry for him if his utter and willful failure to understand what the New Testament is all about wasn't his undoing.

Folks, I'm going off topic here. Question for the legal eagles here: What do y'all think of SCOTUS's finding in 1960 "Flemming v. Nestor"? Just wondering?

Oh, nice way to bring Social Security into this, peter.

I just recently did a report on this issue. From what little knowledge I am humble to possess, Flemming's holding is obviously the correct one given everything we know about the construction of statutes. If we construed every government benefit to confer a non-defeasable vested property right, it'd be very problematic any time you wanted to reform the system, because you'd have a taking.

The alternative, of course, (and the one posited by the holding) being that Social Security exists at the whim of Congress. That's a little scary, but that's democracy, man.

(Property, of course, is going to be a social construct anyway you slice it, so it's really the difference between an "entitlement" and something-we-presume-to-be-inviolable, property. Or to put it more simply, varying degrees of seriousness in promise-keeping.)

That said, having some investments in addition to Social Security as it is would be a wonderful thing.

Back to the issue at hand, this is certainly an unfortunate turn of events. Many people were concerned about precisely this when the "outing" brouhaha happened over at Kos (among other blogs);anyway.

wow. this is amazing. i hope things work out for her. how can a family simply disown a child?

Daily Texican - it happens all the time to glbt kids. Many of us are lucky to have accepting parents, but many glbt kids aren't so lucky.

This is terrible.

No matter who your children are or what your children do, you should never treat them like this.

I may be a liberal, but come on, Alan Keys, this is your daughter.

If parents of mass murders can still say they love their kids and talk to them, then why can't a conservative ex-presidential, ex-senate candidate?

Can we say small-minded?

Alan Keys needs to get a life. Gay, straight, whatever--she is your daughter and you need to get off your high-horse.

It seems terribly unbiblical to me that someone would disown their children over anything, especially something like this.

"how can a family simply disown a child?"
That's Republican family values. Even peter's off topic, diversionary spamming can't hide the GOP hypocrisy.

As Byron pointed out, this is the tip of the iceberg. Homelessness and suicide rates among GLBT youth are off the scale. Perhaps Maya's situation will draw some badly needed attention to these problems in the mainstream media.

Hey, I had a question, and usually the top post has a better chance at an answer. Keyes isn't the best example here, I sure wouldn't have Keyes as mine. VP Cheney and family is a better one. Her not being that visible in the campaign was more of a personal choice, not exclusionary. Are you going to condem her for her choice?

We'd condemn her. The Repubs expressed their 'outrage' over her being mentioned in the debates, yet she was working on the campaign. She was providing guidance on how to handle the glbt issue. That makes her fair game. Notice she wasn't invited on the stage at the GOP convention with her family. It was her choice to be an Uncle Tom. It was her family's choice to throw her under the bus, too.

So y'all condem her for making her choice and then you call her an 'Uncle Tom'. Gee that's just swell, not.

So y'all condem her for making her choice

You just don't get it, peter. People don't choose their sexual orientations.
Only idiots like Alan Keyes and Fred Phelps believe that.

I can't understand why people, even ultra conservative people, would do this to their kids. It's just not worth it. Thank god for the point foundation, they are awesome.