Peter LaBarbera and Linda Harvey are on their neverending Warren Throckmorton witchhunt again. It must be one of the most painful things in the world to be the Last Bigots Standing, but Pete and Linda bring it upon themselves, so no pity! Hold your nose, we’re going to have Linda time now:
A broad coalition of pro-family groups recommends that parents keep their children home on the deceptive, pro-homosexual “Day of Silence,” to be observed this year on April 16, 2010, but one “gay”-affirming counselor started what he calls the “Golden Rule Pledge” instead.
Yet, the “Golden Rule Pledge” actually functions as a disinformation tool and a divisive wedge in schools and among Christians. It is insidiously misleading and would bring harm to kids. It grieves me to take this position, but there’ no choice, because lives are at stake.
That’s right, Linda. Lives ARE at stake! Gay kids attempt and commit suicide at a much higher rate than the rest of the population because of the pig ignorant bile you leave everywhere.
[Warren Throckmorton] has expressed his preference for students remaining in school on the “Day of Silence” and hearing pro-homosexual propaganda, and learning to sympathize with those practicing these behaviors, rather than taking an unequivocal, biblical stand against these harmful practices by remaining home.
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Throckmorton doesn’t even like the Exodus-sponsored “Day of Truth,” which encourages kids to remain in school and have a frank conversation, in love, with friends while presenting the biblical view of homosexuality. Throckmorton calls this “offensive.”
Well, why would he like the “Day of Truth,” since the people who sponsor it value actual, verifiable truth like pedophiles value children?
Throckmorton’ support of the “Day of Silence” will do incalculable harm to many young people. Misleading professionals like Throckmorton in positions of influence can make our sons and daughters become comfortable with entering into, staying in, or approving of homosexuality, bisexuality and gender change.
Wrong! Again, we deal with actual truth, not “I hide my bigotry behind Bible verses I don’t understand” truth. Helping make our sons and daughters comfortable with their biology, their sexual orientation, and helping them along the path of healthy development is a GOOD thing. And guess what? I can point to tons of high school kids who are living this reality right now. Meanwhile, Linda continues to have nothing more than some bur in her nether regions that she inexplicably blames on gay people.
If I were a parent who discovered my minor child had been counseled in this way, I’d bring the largest and most aggressive medical malpractice suit I could launch against this counselor at Grove City.
Well, to be fair, no one accused you of being a good mother, Linda.
Jesus would never make a person feel more comfortable about:
- Young males having sex with males, the incidence of which rose over 12 % per year between 2001 and 2006 among males ages 13 to 24 1;
- Young “lesbians” choosing a fatherless life for any future children, since they can never conceive children with female partners;
- Hoping in such relationships for a false “marriage” in violation of Matthew 19:4-6 and Mark 10:6-9, where Christ told us that “from the beginning” people were created male and female, and that one man and one woman form a marriage;
- Teens and even younger children believing they should change genders. As with homosexuality, we should be doing everything possible to counsel these kids and prevent these behaviors among youth.
I could swear up and down that because Curious George doesn’t refer to the Man in the Yellow Hat owning any other color hats, that’s because other colors are evil, and I could swear up and down that Curious George was written by a supreme deity, but I’d still be a malevolent bigot, hiding behind a book.
And yes, it’s the same. For that matter, you don’t know what Jesus would say, because he ain’t here, and he didn’t see fit to discuss these subjects. Although there’s a strong case to be made that he was confronted with men he knew to be in a sexual relationship with each other, and didn’t have a word to say about it. AND, there were gender variant people all over the Bible, and Jesus didn’t seem to have an issue with that either. AND, since medical science is indeed figuring out that people are born with brains that are gendered in a way that doesn’t match their physical gender, AND since medical science should theoretically be considered by Christians to be the study of God’s wondrous creation, Christians should be the first to get on board with its findings.
Game, set, match, crazy cat lady.*
As the piece continues, Linda takes issue with the Golden Rule itself:
Hmmm. “…The way I want to be treated.” So, if a student is about to enter, or has entered, a high-risk practice that is called an abomination by our Lord, and has shared this with classmates, a “true” Christian should attend school to support a day that affirms this behavior and scorns any warnings to that student? Some friendship!
Here’ a biblically-based alternative: “Friends don’t let friends do homosexuality!”
Uh, actually, Linda, since you have no proof for anything you say (not the high-risk part, not the abomination part), actually you’re just a malevolent woman who feels she has a right to impose her backwards worldview on innocent children. Perhaps the admonition should be “Friends don’t leave their children with lying Fundamentalists.”
I wouldn’t leave my kids with a deranged imam, and I certainly wouldn’t leave them with Linda Harvey.
No, the “Day of Silence” is about propaganda. The goal is to shame and label Christians and tradition-minded students and teachers, silence their authentic witness, and even silence any public health warnings. Real safety would be to scream from the rooftops about the harm homosexuality or gender change will bring to these young lives. And since no one is born homosexual, these desires are demonstrably changeable, so no one is left without a positive alternative.
My god, these people never show their work. Show me how monogamous sex between two same gendered individuals is harmful, please? Show me how safer-sex practices work for straight people, but not for gay people? And then show me how transgender people expressing their appropriate gender in whatever way they choose is harmful. And then show me your proof that people aren’t born gay. (And don’t give me that unscientific crap about how no “gay gene” has been found yet. A first year student of genetics, even from a Christian school, could explain how stupid that argument is.) And then show me all the people who have “demonstrably changed” their sexual orientation. I mean, even John Smid is now admitting that he’s still into dudes. They all do, eventually.
This is such a travesty that if we were all ancient Israelites, we’d be rending our clothing and putting on sackcloth and ashes!
Really, she just said that. But since Linda’s not an ancient Israelite, she’s going to stick with the frumpy separates and wild and crazy pink headband she got at TJ-Maxx last week.
Please join me in praying for Warren Throckmorton, for his repentance, and also for his duplicitous dealings to be revealed so no further harm is done to our precious and impressionable kids.
And please help me pray that the emotionally manipulative “Day of Silence” is revealed for what it is ‚Äî adults exploiting precious kids.
Uh, no thanks. We’ll stick with the reality-based world that Warren is becoming more of a part of every single day.
*No, I do not have any personal knowledge of how many cats Linda Harvey has. My educated guess is “47.”
Thanks for sharing. This kind of stuff is infuriating to me. There are GLBTQ kids who are killing themselves because they don’t feel accepted. There are hetero kids who are getting pregnant and spreading STIs because they have been taught to put their heads in the sand like ostriches instead of learning about sex. It is hard to understand how some folks can be so mean-spirited and hurtful.
I don’t get how people can be so blinded by a book they have no way of proving is real.
I suppose that makes me a ‘Doubting Thomas’.
Fits right into their little argument.
I was getting little neck twitches as I was reading her hate-filled rant.
I could see her eyes bugging out, in my head.
Yikes.
Linda Harvey is and always will be, a complete a*****e. She doesn’t give a crap about the well being of gay students, straight students, or the human race in general. She cares about one thing: having her vanity about her religeous beliefs flattered constantly. Any slight to it is too upsetting to her.
She’s loathesome.
I’m sorry, but reading this article was a bit too emotionally tense for me. It’s people like this I want to just take behind the shed and give a good sound thrashing to. Hey, if Jesus can get away with driving the money lenders away from the temple, then I should get away with knocking some sense into their thick skulls! LOL
No skull knocking, plz.
Linda’s soft spot hasn’t healed yet.
And yes, Bill, all the things you said are true.
I have no psychology training, but the more I see of these people, I’m thinking they show many symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Personality_Disorders/hic_Narcissistic_Personality_Disorder.aspx
They are very sick delusional people, and they need treatment. Just because they share the bulk of their with millions of other people doesn’t mean they are not crazy.
I have a theory: When isolated individuals are delusional, they are considered mentally ill. When the same delusion is shared among a relatively small number of people, it is considered a cult. When the same delusion is shared among a large number of people, it is considered a religion.
This is the same person who trivialized the shooting at an LGBT youth center in Tel Aviv that left two people dead. Her only response was to say that the real tragedy is that they died before she had a crack at condemning them, and that the shooting wouldn’t have occurred in the first place if the center had been shut down.
There is a word missing in my previous comment (#6). It should have said “Just because they share the bulk of their DELUSIONS with millions of other people doesn’t mean they are not crazy.”
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“If I were a parent who discovered my minor child had been counseled in this way, I’d bring the largest and most aggressive medical malpractice suit I could launch against this counselor at Grove City.”
And she’d lose. Every competent, legitimate medical, psychiatric and psychological professional agrees that sexual orientation is innate and unchangeable. None of them believe the nonsense that Linda Harvey and her ilk push.
“Here’ a biblically-based alternative: “Friends don’t let friends do homosexuality!”"
Homosexuality isn’t something you *do*. But just try explaining that to a bigot who’s stuck in the first century.
I really don’t understand how these nuts think they’re punishing anybody by keeping their children out of school. I’m sure teachers and LGBT children across the nation rejoice when they have a day free of those kids and their (and their parents) religious intolerance.
They probably learn more too, when the dumb kids stay home.
I wish this moron would brign a massive law suit, so she can lose lots of money like Focus on the Family does with its pointless commercials
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