Some days you have to wonder what drugs the wingnuts are ingesting and/or what kind of head trauma they've suffered because their attacks on LGBT Americans are just down right insane. A case in point is Linda Harvey who set up her own cottage industry called Mission America. I crossed paths with Ms. Harvey some years back and frankly asked her about her academic credentials and whether she had any legitimate expertise that would qualify her as an expert of social and/or cultural matters and so forth. In a snippy e-mail she disclosed her credentials: she holds a B.A/ in English and has worked in advertising. And, of course, Harvey has been active on the Christo-fascist speaker circuit. Nothing that would seem to make her an expert on homosexuality - a topic that is an obsession with her so-called ministry. Now, Ms. Harvey has posted a rant on her "ministry's" website that blames LGBT citizens and our determination to be equal under the civil laws for the economic recession and the mortgage/real estate meltdown. Here is a sampling of her verbal diarrhea:*
As some conservatives and even Christians rush to embrace the notion that two men or two women can be married, it’s important to remember one basic rule of construction. A weak foundation means a vulnerable, fragile structure.
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Families constructed around sexual deviance stand in defiance of God’s eternally –revealed truth. No matter how “conservatively” and faithfully two men or two women operate as they consider themselves a marital union, the structure is still in defiance of God’s created order of male and female as the framework for marriage. Men and women already have the right to marry, because they are free to marry someone of the opposite sex, so the goal is a new structure.
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So from the get-go, the same sex union is structurally unsound. Functionally, the intentions can be the best, but the homosexual humanists who have created their own law will live and die by it, because God has made His standard clear.
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No new life can ever come from a homosexual relationship. Those few who do desire children (a minority) always have to involve at least a third and possibly a fourth party. The options are adoption, artificial insemination, or inclusion of children from a previous marriage: yes, a heterosexual, fruitful one, back before the discovery of “inborn” homosexuality.
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Much discussion of public policy today advocates so-called “rights” for these sin-based families. They dream of marriage re-structured for everyone, including all our young, who will be taught to ignore basic instincts affirming workable structure and who must embrace the new man-made, sand-made design.
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Substance abuse and self-destruction accompany sexual deviance. And some of this means poor decisions about finances.
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The mortgage crisis was the sin of temptation being offered by those who relaxed legitimate standards, offered to those without the personal standards to resist. This easy-pay physical structure was too good to be true, and appealed to an increasingly covetous segment of our culture. Sexual and material covetousness are usually sin siblings. It would be interesting to study the families who have defaulted on mortgages for the correlations between structural and/or functional weaknesses like infidelity, divorce, gambling or porn addictions, job instability, credit card default, domestic abuse, sexual deviance, and criminality. There is also a high likelihood that poor or no church attendance would show up as a factor as well.
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Personally, I think Ms. Harvey needs serious mental health intervention. She obviously is detached from legitimate medical and mental health knowledge based on her totally repudiated views on gays and sexual orientation.
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