Hate Group Leader Says Homeless LGBT Teens HaveOnly Themselves to bBame

Linda Harvey - the face of hate

Mission America - Linda Harvey's (Harvey is pictured at left) cottage industry hate group - is among the foulest of the stridently anti-gay groups one will find.  Harvey herself pontificates on topics about which she knows nothing and for which she has absolutely ZERO credentials.  To say that the woman is a douche bag would be unduly gracious.  Hate, bigotry and fear mongering are her stock in trade and she and Renew America are proof as to why there needs to be much closer scrutiny by the IRS of supposed "ministries" and far right "charitable" organizations.  No taxpayer should have to indirectly subsidize the lies and filth these groups disseminate.   As noted before on this blog, some 40% of homeless youth are from the LGBT community, may thrown out by their "godly Christian" parents.   Now, Harvey is maintaining that homeless youth have no one but themselves to blame for their homelessness;  Here are details from Gay Star News:

Mission America anti-gay author has made the extraordinary claim that homeless young LGBTI people only have themselves to blame for their homelessness – blaming them for running away from homophobic parents.

‘”Kids are kicked out of their homes just for being who they are,” is how the saying goes,’ Harvey said in a radio clip uncovered by RightWingWatch.org.

‘Well let me offer another possibility that I’ve heard far too often: a parent learns that a son or daughter is claiming to be gay but an underage child still lives at home, so the now-heartbroken parent puts new restrictions on some of the activities like for instance, the teen is no longer going to be having sleepovers with that same-sex friend, or if the friend is a college student or has an apartment, visits over there will not be permitted.

‘What does the teen do? It may become a fight where the teen storms out by choice and leaves voluntarily because the homosexual relationship is more important than that of his or her parents. And when that all-important relationship ends, the teen is too stubborn or already too-involved in alcohol or drugs or the premature independence of the homosexual life and he or she would rather drift than return home.’

Harvey has in the past said that gay people are just heterosexuals who are in denial, that they are not people, that they try to absorb other people’s personalities and that anti-bullying programs aimed at protecting LGBTI young people turn kids gay. 

Note how Harvey throws in the line about gays being hooked on drugs and alcohol in keeping with her past efforts to depict gays as promiscuous alcoholics and drug addicts.  The woman is worse than excrement.  I truly wonder at times what a detailed psychological profile of Harvey would reveal.  Mental illness is about the only explanation I can arrive at for her batshitery.