Here is Linda Harvey, doing her old anti-gay song and dance, the one she does 24/7, never saying anything new, just re-arranging words in order to hold onto her title of “the most homophobic woman in America.” At least Shirley Phelps-Roper has a personality. Transcript from Linda’s Saturday radio show lovingly provided by Right Wing Watch:
Yes people can love kids but a lot of times these—I would say the vast majority of the time—these homosexual-headed households as being featured in the JC Penney ads or the Gap billboard ads for Father’s Day, they are thinking about themselves much more than they are the kids.
You see, if gay parents are photographed with their children, they’re being selfish, but straight parents aren’t. This is the cognitively dissonant world Linda inhabits.
If they thought about the kids they would know that this child would grow up with an ache and a hole in their heart for mom if it’s two dads heading the households; if it’s two moms, they will grow up with an ache and a hole in their heart, aching to know their father. It’s just pathetic when adults construct something that is so adult-centered and just neglects the purposes of the child and of marriage.
Actually, all credible studies [including the completely flawed one the Religious Right is glomping all over right now] show that Linda is making things up.
Friends educate everyone you know out there with the truth: they have the freedom to marry. Every ex-homosexual I know has grabbed onto that freedom to marry, at least in theory, some of them are not married but many of them now are married to someone of the opposite sex because that is marriage.
Notably absent from Linda’s requirement for marriage is two adults who actually are attracted to each other and want to have sex with each other. I suppose this is because, to fundamentalists, even marital sex is icky and shameful.
A homosexual marriage can never be consummated, number one, the anatomy doesn’t work.
I’ll be the judge of that, thanks.
Big clue, people who love each other homosexually or believe they do, can never create under any scenario their own child together, there is no life in that relationship. In case we are being very dense and people are being very dense about this, we humans tend to be dense about things anyway but this is one more way, it’s a big clue: it is a lifeless relationship.
And here, the point of my headline. She’s throwing elderly couples under the bus, she’s throwing heterosexual couples who choose to remain childless under the bus, and she’s essentially saying that if you can’t or don’t want to make a baby, there’s no “life” in your relationship. Indeed, she’s even throwing lots of hetero couples WITH CHILDREN under the bus by suggesting that the only reason there’s “life” in their relationships is because they spawned. Millions of couples who are presumably as happily or more happily married than Linda (I’m just going by her description of what breathes life into a relationship here) disagree.
As I said, if that’s really Linda’s concept of an ideal marriage, then we should pity her.
The parents of adopted children are really quite selfish, if you think about it. Their adopted children grow up with an ache and a hole in their heart for their biological parents. Why do these selfish adoptive parents keep their children from their TRUE parents? It’s really just soo selfish.
Having children in and of itself is a selfish act whether the parents are straight or gay. That being said, Linda Harvey is just a bitter old hag who will say anything to support her hatred of gay people.
Angry anti-gay activist Harvey goes on and on about what gay people “do,” “think,” “feel.” How the heck would she know? She’s heterosexual! Talk about pride and arrogance. This woman desperately needs Jesus in her life!
This is basically the same thing Benedict XVI said when he said that same sex couples do emotional violence to the children that they raise. He has also said that same sex sexual relationships cannot be loving. For some reason he is given a pass by a lot of devoted followers when he speaks such nonsense.
Scuze me, but those of us who “choose to remain childless” are child-FREE, not “childless”.
@MichaelC: In a lot of states, adoption information is sealed, so adoptive parents have little or no information on birth parents. So, adoptive parents are probably not being selfish–they just don’t know who their child’s parents are. I was adopted and the only way my adoptive parents knew my origianl last name is because they had a copy of my name change. Michigan opened the adoption records to the point of giving pre-adoption history, but without identifying information about the birth parents.
@WMDKitty: Thank you. Those who have chosen NOT to have children are indeed “childfree”, not “childless”.
If Harvey is sincerely concerned about “adults construct[ing] something that is so adult-centered and just neglects the purposes of the child and of marriage,” it’s not hard to tie into “every ex-homosexual [she] know[s] [who] has grabbed onto that freedom to marry, at least in theory.”
All she needs to do is encourage young people, especially her straight children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and neighbor kids, to marry opposite sex (ex-)gay people. Those mixed orientation marriages can be consummated and produce a child or three, and the general lack of genuine, authentic intimacy between the couple will prove that the marriage is not adult-centered.
In Linda’s religion-warped brain everything’s black and white. All straight people are married with children and superior parents and gay people are sick and disgusting and terrible parents. Period. I don’t think she even stops to consider how many childless straight couples she insulted and offended with her phony “wisdom”. She doesn’t think about children being raised by straight parents who are alcoholics, drug abusers, wife beaters, cheaters, etc. CPS exists for a reason, idiot. Or maybe in her head she believes bad straight parents are still preferable for children than stable gay parents?? Who knows with these f’ed up fundies…
This b..ch could be mother to umpteen kids and none of them would have a “hole in his heart” if she disappeared from the scene. Get over yourself.