Mark's Notebook


	When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. - Proverbs 16:7

The Gay Child Left Behind

New York Times Opinion

Thursday 17 February 2005, 1:12 pm
Keywords: Christian Topics , News Articles

By Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, a Seattle newsweekly

For gays and lesbians there's something particularly satisfying about watching a prominent antigay conservative learn that his or her own child is homosexual. It smacks of cosmic retribution: Mr. Keyes now has to choose between his antigay "pro-family" rhetoric and a member of his own family.

Sadly for Maya Keyes, her father apparently has more affection for his ideology than for his daughter. Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Cheney could find the time to call Mr. and Mrs. Keyes and explain how parents who actually value their families react when they learn one of their children is gay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/opinion/17savage.html?th