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‘We’d Be Delighted to Expose Her Bigotry in a Court of Law and the Court of Public Opinion,’ Says TWO’s Wayne Besen
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Truth Wins Out responded today to a frivolous lawsuit threat by Linda Harvey, an anti-gay talk radio host and the president of Mission America. Harvey warned Truth Wins Out of possible legal action in a Twitter post this afternoon. Harvey was upset about a column that TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen wrote about her titled, “The Most Homophobic Woman in America.” She was also angry that the column linked her to supporting Uganda’s draconian “Anti-Homosexuality Bill,” which includes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
“Bring it on,” says Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “We hope that such a case would be aired on television so we can expose Harvey’s vile words in a court of law and in the court of public opinion. It’s bizarre that Harvey is upset because we quoted her verbatim, which tells me that on some level she is ashamed of her own hateful rhetoric.”
Truth Wins Out has obtained the services of notable Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent, who is also the publisher of South Florida Gay News. Kent says it is likely that Harvey’s threat is empty because her claim has no merit.
“Linda Harvey’s legal threats are frivolous and if they rested on any shakier legal ground they would be measured by the Richter Scale. I can only surmise her tweets are a pathetic and desperate ploy for attention,” said attorney Norm Kent. “We look forward to her next move and will take appropriate action.”
The centerpiece of Harvey’s tweet was that she “never advocated for killing anyone” in Uganda. While it is true that Harvey never explicitly said, “I want to kill gay people in Uganda,” she admits during a March 2010 speech at Grosse Pointe, Michigan tha
t she and anti-gay activist Scott Lively actually worked on the anti-homosexuality bill, which would imprison and murder LGBT people in that country. According to Harvey’s speech:
“The fact they are re-criminalizing homosexuality is (a) their business, (b) it is patronizing for white Westerners to be telling these folks — they are seeing George Soros funded gay groups going into Uganda. They are all through the schools, lots of promotion to kids. Poor kids, poor kids are being offered money and favors and gifts to have sex. That’s exploitation. That’s sex trafficking. And it’s being done mostly homosexually. By Western homosexuals coming in and trying to get involved in Uganda.”
“Harvey was either remarkably ignorant or clearly lying through her teeth at the Michigan event when she falsely claimed that the intent of Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill was only to punish pedophiles,” said TWO’s Wayne Besen. “In reality, LGBT people could be murdered by the state for a charge called ‘aggravated homosexuality’ which basically means they were accused of having sexual relations on more than one occasion. In her talk, Harvey clearly supported imprisonment and possibly capital punishment for LGBT people in Uganda when she flippantly stated that, ‘The fact they are re-criminalizing homosexuality is (a) their business.’ Obviously, the business she breezily refers to is the hunting down of innocent LGBT Ugandans for the purpose of imprisonment or worse.”
Truth Wins Out’s Evan Hurst and John Becker compiled a short list of quotes from Harvey so readers can see the deep intensity of her anti-LGBT views.
According to her bio: Harvey hosts a radio show on the Salem Network station in Columbus, OH, (WRFD 880 AM), and airs a weekly commentary on the Moody Radio Network. She is also a frequent guest on talk shows coast to coast, a regular columnist for World Net Daily and is interviewed by state and national media outlets. Harvey has been a conference speaker at numerous pro-family meetings including conferences held by Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, Heartbeat International, American Family Association, Americans for Truth, and XChange. In addition, Mrs. Harvey has spoken on Capitol Hill and testified numerous times before state legislative committees. She serves on the National Pro-Family Forum and the Ohio Pro-Family Forum.
Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that fights anti-LGBT religious extremism and the “ex-gay” myth. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality.
Which side is it that keeps screaming about tort reform again?
Sad, sad anti-gay activist Harvey really needs Jesus in her life. Anyone who actually had Christ in her heart would not behave as she does. I will continue to pray for her so that her reviling does not send her to hell as the Bible plainly warns will happen to revilers.
Linda’s problem is that she can’t see a link between not advocating for the outright death penalty contained in that now infamous bill and facilitating and advocating for the Bill in general.
Wayne, wouldn’t a lawsuit from Linda be a cruel and unusual, inhumane punishment for such an unfortunate person as her? But her words are undoubtedly some of the most wicked of the homophobes I have a read so this seems to be in the balance. :-)
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TWO: Keep the heat on this retched person. Of all the ‘darlings’ of the anti-LGBT hate group in this nation, Ms. Harvey appears to out-class them all with her bigotry, hate and venom spewing mouth. I truly believe she is a disciple of Lucifer, as evil as he, and perverts the verses of the Bible to sustain her sickening beliefs. I am told not to judge, but if Dante’s vision is correct, there will be a special place for her soul in the ninth circle of hell!
I do believe that this woman would theaten with a lawsuit. She is extremely homophobic and clearly thinks that gay doctors such as myself are incapable of caring for children because of our sexuality. Obviously she has not read the studies or does not have the intelligence to intrepret them to see that abuse of children is usally by heterosexuals.
After thinking about it I’m curious. Do Maggie Srivistav and her proto-hate group have anything to say about Harvey’s obvious ploy to intimidate you out of exercising your right to free speech?
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Why does it soumd vto me like some weird christian threat like “If you don’t find Jesus’ love, were gonna sue you”
They’re taking advice from the cult of scientology?
It has been a couple of days since a horrible cell phone video of anti-gay bullying went public. The video shows a vicious premeditated assault on an Ohio gay high school student.
Now, Ms. Harvey – who loves nonexistent homosexuals so much – is bound to say something about this. Who wants to bet that the actual assault gets 1-2 grudging sentences and the rest of her show is devoted to insisting that the victim is just a confused heterosexual who, for some reason, “engages in homosexual conduct.”
If not already there, this woman should be at the top of the gay mafia’s hit list.
As an Atheist, I CAN judge others and I judge Ms. Harvey to be a spiteful, hateful, wretched, miserable, unhappy and UN-Christian b***h.
At times like this, I almost wish I were a Christian so I could implore Satan to come and get her! But since there’s no Hell, we’re stuck with the loud-mouthed wretch here on earth.
Jerry
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“Wayne Wins Out” vs “Linda Harpy.”
I’m buying tickets!
Linda Harvey needs to be periodically prodded by callers to her show so that she is forced to put up or shut up in a court of Law. When this happens, hopefully the wishes of all that she be exposed on TV for what she really is just might just come true.