Christian conservative Linda Harvey has
advised gay teens to remain closeted.
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus,
Ohio-based Mission America and a frequent contributor to the
conservative website WND.com, made her comments during a Monday
appearance on The Janet Mefferd Show to
pitch her book on young people and being gay, Maybe He's
Not Gay: Another View on Homosexuality.
When asked what
advice she would give to the friends and family members of a teen who
wants to come out, Harvey answered that “they do not need to come
out to everyone.”
“That's the
beginning of many troubling roads for young people,” Harvey
said.
“That's when they
announce it and they feel like they have to live up to that, or down
to that, standard they set for themselves,” she added. “And it
begins to label them. They put these labels on themselves.”
(Related: Linda
Harvey blames “stubborn” gay teens for parents' rejection.)