"Shouldn’t an employer have the right to uphold high moral standards in his or her company? Or shouldn’t schools have the right to not have open homosexuals or cross-dresses modeling that lifestyle to kids? This does not deprive anyone of a job by the way, except those who insist on displaying these lifestyles to everyone and forcing their acceptance. Such behavior shows a disrespect for two things: everyone else around them and for hardcore facts. The fact is that no one needs to be involved in homosexuality and all of the good qualities a person may have that might make that person otherwise an excellent employee don’t require a homosexual lifestyle. Now the activists won’t like this and I may get another slew of hateful emails and such from the tolerance crowd but really where is the actual concern for the rights and beliefs of others? The track record on these so-called non-discrimination regulations shows a consistent and disturbing pattern of bullying and abuse."
-Linda Harvey, Mission: America
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| Linda Harvey |
Mrs [Linda] Harvey, who broadcasts an obscure radio programme, at the very
least provides the most comical and deluded arguments you have ever
heard against homosexuality.
Mrs Harvey has recently claimed that gay people are not human, so are not protected by the US constitution. She also believes that Jesus could be forced to marry a man if he is resurrected and that gay rights is killing children.
Listening
to Mrs Harvey’s clap trap is not unlike the bizarre experience I had
when the British writer Lynette Burrows debated me at the Oxford Union.
She claimed that a child would be brought up better by a “drug addict
slut” than the “pretend fathers”, my boyfriend and I would one day like
to be. Her ludicrous and offensive comments made my victory over
more mild mannered anti-equality speakers she was grouped with a lot
easier.
The reality is that around half of the readers of these sorts stories
are not LGBT, they are people who have been shared them by their LGBT
friends. Their sense of moral outrage is in my view incredibly useful in
dispelling the more reasonable arguments of mild mannered homophobes.
They share the stories on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all with a sense
of shock at what hateful people say about LGBT people.
Remember the US judge who claimed that lesbians could be ‘cured’ by being forced to have sex with male soldiers?
That was shared 62,000 times on Facebook and has been read more than
two and a half million times over the past three years, primarily, we
believe, by straight people.
From Right Wing Watch: 
