Social conservatives Gary Glenn and
Linda Harvey say gay men and lesbians make bad employees because they
suffer from “severe medical consequences,” RightWingWatch.org
reported.
Glenn, the head of the Christian
conservative American Family Association's (AFA) Michigan chapter,
appeared on Linda Harvey's Mission America radio program,
where the pair discussed Holland, Michigan's ongoing debate on an
ordinance that would ban workplace discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity (transgender protections.)
“Herman Miller, which is a major
employer and corporation in Holland, a furniture company, supported
this so-called gay rights ordinance on the claim that it allowed them
to attract the best and the brightest,” Glenn said.
“Here we go, yeah we heard that
before,” Harvey added.
“What ridiculous folly to suggest
that only those individuals who engage in homosexual behavior given
all of its severe medical consequences constitute the best and the
brightest. It’s not really bright to engage in behavior that puts
you at dramatically higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse
and AIDS and cancer and hepatitis, and according to various sources,
premature death. So to suggest that engaging in that type of
behavior defines someone as the best and brightest, which seems to be
the line coming out of corporate America, is just ridiculous.”
Harvey agreed, adding that gay people
are also more likely to be violent and unable to sustain long-term
relationships: “You're right. And higher rates of domestic
violence and unstable relationships. I would not think of a
homosexual person as a good employment risk, I just wouldn't.”