Linda Harvey has suggested that gay
rights costs jobs and lives.
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus,
Ohio-based Mission America and a frequent contributor to the
conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, on Wednesday lauded the
conclusion by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the
nation's most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, that companies
which back marriage equality do so at the cost of declining profits.
“The National Organization for
Marriage just released a very interesting report about the companies
that support homosexuality as marriage; they are paying a price,
literally, and of course, when a company doesn't do well that means
jobs in America are lost,” she told her radio listeners. “Here
are the specifics: the marriage group quoted an article in Forbes
which tried to soften the reality of their findings but the truth is
companies that support same-sex marriage lose positive brand
perception among both Democrats and Republicans. This
reputation-loss is more pronounced among Republicans but the consumer
distaste goes across party lines. The brands that were studied
included Amazon.com, American Apparel, Apple, General Mills Brands,
Google, Home Depot, JC Penney, Levi’s, Macy’s, Microsoft,
Nabisco, Nike and Starbucks. I don't know about you but in our house
of those mentioned above we no longer patronize Macy's, Home Depot or
JC Penney, we no longer order from Amazon and we no longer buy any
General Mills cereals. Some of these companies may be seeing a
downturn in sales, when that continues it can lead to layoffs and
lost jobs.”
“This, friends, is the rotten fruit
of ungodly values. Obama's open support for homosexuality as
marriage is very unpopular once the truth is known; the same is true
of his new contraceptive mandate. Again, as this election campaign
unfolds I am reminded of the Scripture verse that has been on our
homepage at Mission America since 1995, it's Hosea 4:6, my people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge. Suppressing the truth will be our
undoing on so many levels, friends, but the good news is that many
Americans are not so easily fooled.”
“These radical values cost not just
jobs, but lives,” she
added.
(Related: Linda
Harvey instructs kids to never say “gay is okay.”)