COLUMBUS, Ohio — Linda Harvey, the virulently anti-gay conservative pundit whose Mission America organization was recently listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a certified hate group, has launched her annual campaign to demonize the GLSEN-sponsored “Day Of Silence.”
Writing on her blog at Mission America, Harvey said, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) “shamelessly exploits teen suicide in order to create a climate of hysteria which they then use to falsely impute culpability for teen suicide to conservative moral beliefs.”
Linda Harvey
Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has become the largest student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
But according to Harvey, “GLSEN’s end game is the eradication of conservative moral beliefs and the creation of a social and political climate in which it is impossible to express them.”
“Their cultural vehicle of choice for this radical social experiment is public education. What a strategic coup for homosexualists: use our money to capture the hearts and minds of our children.
“Efforts to exploit public education for the purpose of eradicating conservative moral beliefs are dramatically increasing every year.
“Homosexual activists and their allies are aggressively targeting younger and younger children through “anti-bullying” laws, policies, and curricula; through the effort to nationalize “comprehensive sex ed”; through laws mandating positive portrayals of homosexuality and gender deviance in curricula; and through events like the Day of Silence, National Coming Out Day, Ally Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance; and Spirit Week.
“And conservatives do virtually nothing. Our complacence makes us complicit in the damage done to our children and our culture.”
GLSEN, considered the nation’s leading education organization for LGBTQ related issues, has been the official sponsor of the National Day of Silence since 2001, during which students across the country take a vow of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.
From the first-ever Day of Silence at the University of Virginia in 1996, to the organizing efforts in over 8,000 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities across the country in 2008, its textured history reflects its diversity in both numbers and reach.
This year’s Day of Silence is Friday, April 20.
Requests by LGBTQ Nation for an interview with Harvey went unanswered.
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EAT A DICK!
just lawled so hard
Other hate groups listed with Southern Poverty Law Center: KKK, American Nazi Party, and many of these anti-gay supposedly “conservative” groups.
~sighs~ I’m not going to stoop to their level by saying crude things.
FUCKING CUNT
all because the girl she had a crush on in jr high said no probably…
wow, quite the potty mouth…
Die already and go meet your prescious fukn saviour, stupid fukn bitch.
omg…. what a one minded person… dang ^^^ lol
Social Conservatives are all evil, ignorant and obnoxious. They should be voted against vigorously and shunned socially.
Um, wow. Hating someone for hating you just puts you down at their level. Agreed Mary-ann…
^ lol, how old are you?
Does this heifer really believe the sick hate she spews!?!
Oh, God, she’s right, how could I be so foolish to think the the Day of Silence was just a peaceful protest? She really opened my eyes!
Hate has never solved anything, everyone. (:
well said sir. well said indeed…
She’s the eradication of what it means to be a decent human being.
billy you speak the truth i love it!
More Hateful bullshit.
Tiana-what does my age have to do with not believing that furthering hate is going to solve anything?
The Day of Silence is a day to remember those we’ve lost because they couldn’t take the hate and cruelty – not just in the LGBT community, but ALL communities. To say this eradicates anything but hatred, even for a day, is truly despicable. That says, you all emulate the exact OPPOSITE by insulting this woman in the cruelest of ways and telling her to die – you are the reason we have this day to begin with. To remind us that bullying and persecution are very real and do silence many people, a day to recognize those people. Don’t diminish the purpose of this day and sully the memory of those lost by becoming tactless pottymouths.
^^Couldn’t have said it better myself. If we spout out evil words about her..we are no better than her. No H8..means just that..don’t hate anyone!
As much as I dislike the term hate, it does justify my feelings for Frothy Santorum though.
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told, religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right…she has no idea what morals are evidently, as she is confusing it with religion. The Day of Silence isn’t immoral because it is doing what is right in remembering anyone that has been lost to hate, bullying, etc. regardless of why makes it moral and that really isn’t debatable. Her argument with a different spin, would be like saying Vetrans Day, Memorial Day, etc. are immoral (eradicating morals) if you are against war…it has nothing to do with that, it has everyone to do with our fallen fellow citizens who served. She needs to get a clue!
Ugh not this bitch again -_-
Not *all* moral beliefs– just the wrong ones. ;-{P}
well said, nicole. well said.
the true day of silence will be when we eradicate bigoted assholes like her
i have always participated in the day of silence and just cuz this bigoted egotistical vile bitch dont agree o fuckin well..
I used to wonder if there was a stronger word than “cunt”. Now I know….What a fuckin’ Linda.
wait a min, that’s latina…..doesn’t make sense to me…she’s like the nazis for the anti-gay……
She’s proven by her own words that she wouldn’t know a Moral Belief if it sat on her head. Hating other people is just WRONG.
So why dont she shut up so we can test that theory?
she’s sick
I’m thinking these folks should not be called Christians, bcause they are in know way Christ like. Perhaps we should just call them ians.