That depends on your definition of personalize. From the Sun-Times:
NEW YORK?Illinois GOP chairwoman Judy Baar Topinka said today that her party?s nominee for the U.S. Senate, Alan Keyes, should apologize for what she called his ?idiotic? statement that vice presidential daughter Mary Cheney and all homosexuals, are ?selfish hedonists.?
But Keyes refused to back down today, saying he was merely stating what he believes is the truth, as he would to his own daughter if she engaged in lesbian acts.
?If my own daughter were a homosexual or lesbian, I would love my daughter, but I would tell her she was in sin,? Keyes said.
Keyes first made the remarks Monday night in his interview with a satellite radio network geared toward gays and lesbians. Keyes emphasized it was a reporter, not he, who brought up the name of Mary Cheney, who the vice president has publicly acknowledged is gay.
?I did not personalize this,? Keyes said, blaming the media for inserting Cheney?s name into his academic discussion.
Replied Keyes: “Dick Cheney may or many not like to hear the truth, but it can be spoken.”
Now, no one can resist setting Keyes up for this kind of hysterical fun, but when you talk about a father not wanting to hear the truth in relation to his daughter, you’ve very much personalized it.