The Maya Keyes Story, Day Two

Well, some new sources joined in covering the Maya Keyes story: The Advocate, Gay365.com, Politics1, the Illinois leader, the New York Daily News, and the Washington Times.

Now among these, only the Leader is in Illinois. Their huge story is that Keyes didn’t address the issue as expected at a townhall meeting. My big question is, “Why should we have to?” and “What business is of ours anyway?”

The candidate’s daughter is not an approriate issue and it’s personal not political. As I stated, Keyes is being consistent about “loving his daughter”.

Another Freerepublic post about the Cheney thing came up innocently enough. The person posting it did so because the story was breaking already and thought Free Republic would be a good place to discuss it. I quoted “not our way” post from Kos and asked, “Of course, it’s still up because it is their way, but is our way?” I publicly requested they pull the thread out of concern for the Keyes family’s privacy. The poster who started it didn’t intend to become a flame war but with some of the bitter anti-Keyes people. For whatever reason, Jim Robinson yanked the thread .

Neither Maya nor Ava (i.e. the girlfriend) had any new posts on their Xanga blogs today

I think tomorrow will be pivottal in the story. Who picks up? Who shows some class and leaves it alone that will tell whether this will peeter out or continue on.

I hope it peeters out, for Maya’s sake. A survey she posted and then put on her site six months ago indicated she’d never done anything more than kiss anyone. I think that she needs to work through some very difficult issues in her life as is Ava. Of course, if Keyes ever chooses to run for anything, this will become issue even if 4 years from now, Maya has grown out of this. In essence, to protect his daughter, Keyes may never be able to run for office again. Perhaps, it’s a sacrifice he’ll have. I remembered a speech Keyes gave in August at Mountaintop Community Church. Of children, he said,

There are days when they will bring us to joys we never knew where possible. And there are days when, in their suffering, and in their danger, and in their pain, and their sickness, they will bring us to fears and to griefs that we did not think were possible; to pain that we never thought a human heart could endure.

This whole mélange of joy and satisfaction, of pain and grief and sacrifice, of moments when you fulfill yourself, and moments when you must completely put yourself aside–this is what it means to have a child.

Today, we prayed for Dr. Keyes at my church. I didn’t mention specifics. Going to a Pentecostal church, we take what are called “special unspoken requests”. I pray for Dr. Keyes, I pray for Maya and I pray for Ava. All of them needs God’s help in different ways.

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