Linda Harvey, head of the anti-gay, anti-witchcraft (seriously), Christianist, almost-hate group Mission: America, actually says of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, “there are no such humans.” Harvey claims there has never been any proof.
“There’s one big fact that’s not backed up. There is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen or human. One of the other things you’re gonna see as I mentioned is a big campaign GLSEN’s gonna roll out this year calling for ‘respect,’ respect! Not just for people, but for homosexual lifestyle. The PR campaign to hold up gay as a good thing: the lifestyle, not the person, because there are no such humans.”
Chances are pretty good, if you’re reading this, then, you do not exist. Sorry.
Linda Harvey actually wants to trample on our civil rights so much she is going to the ultimate extreme of denying our right to exist. Who does that sound like?
Last week, also on her weekly radio show, Harvey actually said that ending the concept that people are gay would “make a serious dent” in ending HIV, and called for government shut down of gay bars.
“So what could we do to make a serious dent in the HIV and syphilis disease track?,” Harvey had asked. “One obvious approach is to stop promoting homosexual behavior to kids and falsely calling it an identity like race. We could also close down homosexual bars and bathhouses, that would be a start. God never created people to engage in these unnatural acts.”
Harvey has also said schools should ban openly gay and lesbian teachers and classified the It Gets Better Project as “evil.”
“Kids should not be put in the confusing position of having a teacher they like and respect in many ways who’s also known to be practicing homosexual behavior,” Harvey said, and added, ”Out and proud homosexuals should not have jobs that involve children.”
Really. Where do these people come from?
I say we start a new movement: The “conservative bible-thumping bigoted anti-gay anti-science religious zealots do not exist movement.”
Who wants to join?
(Hat tip: Right Wing Watch)
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I'm proof.
Well Ms. Harvey is being particularly mean-spirited about her definitions, and we might also recall that the conservative religious leaders or institutions have for quite a while now implicitly insisted that nobody is actually anything but straight. The next step in this narrative is then to proceed with the construct as if all LGBTQ folks are straight people behaving very badly. The fact that Ms. Harvey's narrative links to extreme remedies that will violate civil and human rights is of equal or even more alarming concern. Alas. Lord have mercy. Is there an old saying, something like ? … with "respect" like this from Ms. Harvey, I don't wanna see her version of outright ….. ?
It would appear that really that which is presented as a 'Ms Harvey' is but a digital creation channeling the opinions and bigotry of a certain Florida Oranges spokes-bimbo. And like so many re-makes, quality suffers… perhaps we'll be lucky and this will quickly devolve into parody.
Jeepers, who knew Anita (and for that matter John Briggs) would be channeled so quickly, before either of them are even dead?
I can't believe people listen to this emaciated third grade adult. Does she even have any education beyond 8th grade? She talks like an immature eighth grader. These people are also born stupid, I guess. Unnnngh!!!
If we don't exist, why does she need to think about us at all?
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