Alan Keyes: Allowing Gay Marriage "Is Like Granting Plantation Owners the Right to Own Slaves"

Failed presidential candidate and far right, anti-gay black Republican Alan Keyes is virtually frothing at the mouth over the Administration's DOMA announcement.

Government doesn't endow people with the ability to procreate the species. The Creator takes care of that. Like all unalienable rights, those associated with the natural family exist in consequence of this endowment. A couple that cannot, by nature, procreate has no claim to those rights. Nor can government grant them a semblance of it without impairing the claims of one or both of the parents biologically implicated in the physical conception of the child. The DOMA simply makes more explicit the government's obligation to secure the Creator-endowed unalienable rights of the natural family. This obligation precludes government from fabricating other rights that impair them. In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

An interesting argument because slaveowners—and most governments at the time—believed in "Creator-endowed unalienable rights" to own Black slaves. 

Keyes should know a thing or two about "family values." In 2004, his daughter Maya Marcel-Keyes came out as lesbian. Keyes stopped speaking to his daughter and refused to continue paying for her college education.

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Comments

[PDQ]

Alan who?

Truthfully, who the fuck cares what he thinks? His 15 minutes ended years ago. He's irrelevant and only said this to get some media exposure.

[Isis]

That is the craziest argument I have ever heard! Can't even see what one has to do with the other. Mr. Keyes needs to have a seat.

[Derrick from Philly]

Well, ISIS, atleast you were able to decipher what the f.ck he said. I've been accused of lacking clarity in my comments on the blogs, but I'll be damned if I'm as bad as this fool. He doesn't even sound sane.

If he'd lived during slavery he'd have been one of those Blacks who managed to purchase his own freedom and immediantly began saving to buy other Black folks. He'd have been so ruthless on his slaves that he would've made a fortune and contributed it all to the Confederate Cause (as many black slave holders did). Then, after the War his former slaves would've found him and f.cked his ugly azz up.

[Bill]

His argument disproves itself: he says the Creator grants the ability to procreate, not the government. Then he lists all the rights granted by government to "natural" families. What does this man know about valuing the family since he kicked his own child to the curb.

[GBM and GOP]

Rod you are such a hater. You can barely go a day or two without bashing black conservatives.

[ger]

GBM and GOP - sometimes black conservatives do a great job 'bashing' themselves - Rod just has to transcribe their words.

[Isis]

@ GBM and GOP

Why are you here?

[Rod Mc]

@ GBM and GOP:

You meant to say: "The GOP are such haters. They can barely go a day or two without bashing blacks or gays"

Muah! -RM

[TheRevKev]

I am so bothered and befuddled by idiots who make the "point" of making procreation the grounds for being "against" homosexuality.

NEWSFLASH: There are THOUSANDS of women who are unable to bear children and that doesn't leave them out of the joy of being married. How dare this buffoon mirror the metaphor of slavery. Alan Keyes speaking out about rights and using slavery as the metaphor is like the Chief who sold slaves speaking out against slavery! OH WAIT...

[Derrick from Philly]

GBM,

If you are a thinking Conservative why would you want to associate yourself with a deranged and heartless fool like Keyes.

Condoleeza Rice is a Black Conserative, Colin Powell is a Black Conservative, Denzel Washington (it breaks my heart) is a Black Conservative. Alan Keyes is Black Right-Wing Lunatic. (Michael Steele, on the other hand, is just plain pitiful)

[Honut Sinti]

It appears that someone locked alan's brain in the basement and threw away the Keys.

[Chitown Kev]

@Derrick from Philly

Yeah, I don't hate on black Republican moderate (which I consider Rice and Powell to be).

I could never imagine Condi Rice or Colin Powell saying anything like what this spook by the door said.

[Procrastination_Xtravaganza]

Actually Kevin, you don't know how right you are. Much more than thousands, as of June 2009 About 10 percent of women (6.1 million) in the United States ages 15-44 have difficulty getting pregnant or staying pregnant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). - Womenshealth.gov. And that's just the women! If you add men into the mix, we're somewhere between 10-15 million people, who by Alan Keyes' "logic" should be denied the right to marriage too! This guy is a clown.