Christian conservative Linda Harvey on Wednesday criticized
efforts to create a safe space at school for LGBT teens as “pure
evil.”
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus, Ohio-based Mission America
and a frequent contributor to the conservative website WND.com, was
troubled that Dr. Eliza Byard of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight
Education Network (GLSEN) spoke during a ceremony marking the 50th
anniversary of the March on Washington.
GLSEN works to create a safe space in schools for children who are
or may be perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
“Last week the executive director of one of the nation's most
radical homosexual groups, GLSEN, spoke at the civil rights
commemorative march in Washington,” Harvey
told her radio listeners. “Eliza Byard of the Gay, Lesbian &
Straight Education Network is, I'm sure, sincere in her beliefs. But
GLSEN's idea of promoting homosexuality and gender confusion to kids
is deeply harmful and these behaviors are certainly not anything
close to civil rights.”
She continued: “Why are we in such a place, friends, where
children learn that homosexual behavior is noble, that amputating
healthy body parts is admirable but the mention of Jesus Christ
during a graduation ceremony is controversial? I'll tell you how:
It's because not enough of us are calling this lunacy what it is. We
need to have a clear idea about what is evil and speak up about it in
order to preserve the good. These actions are pure evil and should
be declared child abuse. This all starts with the lie that
homosexuality can ever be a good thing or that changing one's gender
can ever be in the child's long-term best interest when it's easy to
demonstrate that it's not.”