Linda Harvey won't wish gay dads a
Happy Father's Day, media watchdog RightWingWatch.org reported.
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus,
Ohio-based Mission America and a frequent contributor to the
conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, which is run by Joseph Farah,
described ads by retailers JCPenney
and Gap
which feature gay male couples part of a “war on men.”
Harvey criticized the companies during
a Father's Day message on her radio show.
“I read with astonishment that JC
Penney is advertising Father's Day with an ad featuring two real life
homosexual males who are in a home with kids. The ad says that a
father is 'a swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug
giver – all rolled into one. Or two,' but actually no, only one
person is ever your dad, the other parent is your mom. We need to
keep repeating this unchanging truth,” she told her listeners.
“And they are not the only retailer
going foolishly into sexual deviance. The Gap has a billboard ad
currently posted in Los Angeles with the theme, 'Be One,' the photo
shows two homosexual males closely embracing as if they are one.”
“Friends, fathers and males in
general are under attack in this culture. There is not a war on women
as claimed, but there does seem to be a war on men. Traditional males
and fatherhood are under assault everywhere they turn. As we get
ready to celebrate Father's Day, let's be sure to give extra
attention and show our appreciation to those men, our fathers,
husbands and sons, who are still, in spite of heavy pressure to be
otherwise, faithful, loving and strong examples of the way God
designed men to begin with,” she added. (Listen
to the entire segment at RightWingWatch.org.)