Keyes appeared at Thursday’s breakfast – sitting in a different room from Topinka – and dismissed calls by some that he apologize to the Cheney family.
“I think folks like that are being a little careless with the integrity of our party,” he told reporters. “We have adopted a plank against gay marriage. We have adopted that plank for a very good reason, and I have presented the clear logic of that plank to people.
“Folks are coming to me saying, ‘Well, we need to exempt our children from the consequences of that logic.’ So, if it’s our child that’s involved, we won’t apply that logic to them? What kind of a party are we if we’re going to take a stand and then try to claim special privileges? I won’t do it.”
There’s like a thousand ways to hold his position and not bring in specific families, but not for Dear Alan.