Linda Harvey this weekend called on
anti-gay activists to go to the 'places that are homosexual' to
spread their message.
Harvey, the founder of the Columbus,
Ohio-based Mission America and a frequent contributor to the
conservative website WND.com, attacked a push for greater
LGBT rights in Southern states.
Anti-gay activists, Harvey said on her
radio program, should have the same “kind of boldness.”
“I wish our side had the kind of
boldness to go forward into, you know, San Francisco, or, you know,
Provincetown, or, you know, Key West. I'm thinking of all the places
that, you know, are homosexual,” Harvey
told BarbWire columnist Gina Miller. “But, I mean, we should
have just as much conviction about what we're doing and go forward to
the Gay Pride parades and be saying what we believe is true.”
Harvey and Miller also dismissed an HRC
survey on harassment of LGBT youth in Southern states such as
Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
“These folks are highly sensitive –
I’m not saying these things don’t happen, but I think all of this
is exaggeration,” Harvey said. “'One-in-three LGBT students,' you
might be talking about 45 people in the total of Mississippi and they
are not born that way so the issue is we need to be educating and
counseling and coming along these kids and saying 'you don’t need
to be in this lifestyle’'and harassment can be punished right now,
no matter what the reason, so it’s all false.”
Miller agreed, saying such statistics
could be “easily made up.”