The press and the lefty bloggers are all over this Maya Keyes thing. If you haven’t seen it, Alan Keyes’ daughter has announced (though it’s not really new news) that she is involved in the lesbian lifestyle:

“Things just came to a head. Liberal queer plus conservative Republican just doesn’t mesh well,” Marcel-Keyes said. “That was making my life a little bit turbulent.”

Keyes’ “selfish hedonist” comments from the Barak Obama campaign are being repeated ad nauseum.

Also, along with that is the mantra “Keyes doesn’t love her any more, he has kicked her out of his house.”

I don’t know Mr. Keyes personally, and he’s definitely an opinionated guy, I’ve only watched him speak so eloquently and passionately several times, but I figured I would do a brief bit of digging to see if there was another side to this story.

His only public response is:

“My daughter is an adult, and she is responsible for her own actions. What she chooses to do has nothing to do with my work or political activities.”

Another perspective is briefly mentioned in this Post story:

Maya told the Washington Post Monday her parents kicked her out of the house and will not pay her college tuition. But a family friend has a very different take, saying Maya has been self-destructive and needs psychiatric help, not college. The friend says Maya has not been kicked out of the family home, but she is no longer welcomed to stay at the downtown Chicago apartment that Keyes and members of his new political organization use.

The Point Foundation has offered her a scholarship, which they apparently have set up for the kids involved in the gay lifestyle who have famous conservative parents.

On Thursday, the Point Foundation, a San Francisco-based charity that provides scholarships to students “who have been marginalized because of their sexual orientation,” decided to pay Maya’s expenses so she can begin her studies at Brown. “Many of the students we support have been disowned by their families because they’ve been honest about who they are,” said the foundation’s executive director, Vance Lancaster. “Maya’s situation is especially poignant because of her father’s position, but it’s a situation that happens every day to hundreds of kids across the country.”

If you would like to send a personal note of encouragement to Maya Marcel-Keyes, you can do so on her blog. Whether or not you agree with her lifestyle choices, she is a young (19-year-old) human being who needs to be loved.