There’s no such thing as a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered person. No, really.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-theres-no-proof-lgbt-people-exist
What inspired her to enlighten us with this? The GLSEN Sports Project, which is
Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project is an education and advocacy initiative focused on addressing LGBT issues in K-12 school-based athletic and physical education programs. The Sport Project’s mission is to assist K-12 schools in creating and maintaining an athletic and physical education climate that is based on the core principles of respect, safety and equal access for all students, teachers and coaches regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression and integrating these efforts into overall school plans to ensure a safe, respectful school climate and culture.
We just can’t have this, especially since there really are no LGBT people.
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.
This is the same Linda Harvey, of Mission America who had this to say last year in the wake of a gay suicide rash:
One wonders if any of these kids ever heard a clearly articulated warning against homosexuality. Or were they faced with a continuous onslaught of pro-homosexual diversity lessons, novels and events like the “Day of Silence”? Were they surrounded with liberal teachers as role models and the bad example of a homosexual school club? What part did any of this play in the sad belief that homosexuality was an inevitable destiny, instead of a wayward yet changeable sexual inclination? Under almost continuous pressure to accept a lie – confusion and then despair may be the predictable result.
On top of all this, then, in some young lives come the bullies. They are a part of life, especially for boys. But for the young person with same-sex attractions, this is the final straw where they feel totally trapped, with internal feelings they have been carefully taught “cannot be changed” on the one hand, and harsh peer rejection on the other. Yes, it looks hopeless indeed.
Mission America is another one of the garden variety far-right Christian “ministries” designed to inculcate fear in people about homosexuality, Muslims, other non-Christian expressions of faith, particularly witchcraft and neopaganism, “feminist theology“, and “compromised Christianity” (meaning non-fundamentalist Christianity)
You cannot make this stuff up. Much thanks to Chrislove for reporting this on Daily Kos. Now we’re enlightened. She knows more than anybody about the fictitiousness of being non-heterosexual. If only we would all listen to her. Who else has denied the very existence of LGBT people? Back about 15 years ago I was about as far right and homophobic as you could get, but even I accepted that such folks are real.
August 28, 2011
progressivekyle
5 responses to “Linda Harvey solves the “gay problem” with one simple declaration”
paulattheballpark
August 28th, 2011 at 05:04
“Who else had denied the very existence of LGBT people?”
Mahmoud Ahmedinijad did in his interview at Columbia University a few years back. (At least he said there were none in Iran.) Reasonable conclusion from this fact and from reading this stuff: Harvey’s thinking is more similar to Ahmedinijad’s than it is different.
progressivekyle
August 28th, 2011 at 07:09
Interesting. I just had never heard of anyone here in the USA making that denial. I wonder if Ms. Harvey also tells us that there really is no such thing as an atheist – that all of us deep down “know” that a God (of the Bible) is real and deserves our adulation.
paulattheballpark
August 29th, 2011 at 05:47
In fact, speaking as a Christian, I would say that the opposite is true. I’d say that even the most devout harbor doubts. That’s why it’s called faith and not knowledge.
progressivekyle
August 29th, 2011 at 14:47
Fair point Paul. Just pointing to what a great deal of fundamentalists have said through the years. They often point to Romans Chapter 1 as proof that “we all know” that the God of the Bible is real and that anyone who says otherwise is just in denial, or just wanting to “sin” and not be held to account for their “sins”, or all of the above.
To the topic at hand, Ms. Harvey is a perfect example of a fundamentalist who finds science totally untrustworthy, particularly if it calls into question her beliefs. If there’s a conflict between science and what is written in the Bible, the Bible wins by default, 100% of the time. It isn’t open to question or debate. I’m sure fundamentalist Muslims have the same view about their beliefs when called into question by certain scientific facts.
Kirk Standerfer
October 14th, 2011 at 07:34
Gay people are real. How do I know? Every time I look in the mirror. I have lesbian friends, have met a few transgendered folk and have yet to meet anyone who is truly bisexual, but of course they exist. Where do these people come up with this waste of air??