Meanwhile the daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes has come out as a gay activist. In her first public statement, Maya Marcel-Keyes recalled that when her parents learned she was a lesbian they threw her out of the house, stopped speaking to her and refused to pay for her college education. Last summer Alan Keyes called homosexuality “selfish hedonism.” He also described Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary as a sinner for being a lesbian. Cheney’s other daughter, Elizabeth, is also in the news. On Tuesday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Elizabeth Cheney to become the new deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East. She will become the second- highest ranking U.S. diplomat for the Middle East.