On her daily radio commentary Wednesday, Linda Harvey offered a rather interesting theory about why the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” shouldn’t apply to marriage equality — or seemingly to gay people at all, for that matter — since “people are not naturally homosexual.”
Linda Harvey
Apparently, being a “gay person” doesn’t actually qualify one as a “person” under Harvey’s understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Why should the equal protection argument be made in favor of homosexual behavior, which is changeable? People are not naturally homosexual, so the definition of “person” in the Fourteenth Amendment is being twisted to make this assumption.
“Person” should be understood based on historic, beneficial, or at least neutral and fact-based traits; it should not be twisted to incorporate behavior that most religions and most cultures have said a firm “no” to.
It’s also behavior for which there’s no recognized science demonstrating a genetic or hormonal origin. And it’s also not beneficial and does not stand the definition of marriage, used for millenia – that is, the act of consummation. It’s another sad fact of homosexual behavior that two men or two women can never consummate a marriage; they can never conceive children together.
This should still have some standing and it remains a fact that there are only two types of human in the world: male and female. Any other distinctions made are appearance, custom, and construction. So marriage is the lawful, orderly confirmation of what we already see in nature.
The Supreme Court says they will give their decision in June. Pray, friends, for truth to prevail.
Linda Harvey is founder and president of Mission America, a Columbus, Ohio-based organization designated as an active anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in March 2012 based on its particular anti-LGBT rights stances.
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What ?!
Silly bitch
yes we are naturally gay. whats not natural is her ugly face!
people are not naturally straight!
I can’t stand this woman. She just needs to shut her damn mouth! Homosexuality occurs even in the animal kingdom so what was she saying about it not being “natural”?
People are not naturally Christian, actually.
This People Naturally s!!!
This lady is crazy … Changeable ? First I don’t want to change and second I’ve known since I can remember that I was gay so this lady can come talk to me and we will have a nice little chat
//not fazed at all//
I think they are those who are born gay, and there are those who choose to be gay. Nothing wrong with both.
Amen John Bickford! Choice or not, gay people deserve equal protection under the law!!! Straight people CHOOSE who they marry. So should we!
this would almost be starting to get funny if not for the serious subject matter.. another one of these people? come on, seriously, how are we still not over the gay thing yet as a society?
Her stupidity is quite funny if not astounding. LOL
Women aren’t naturally bitches…but I guess your God made you special, right?
stfu u twat u
and people are not naturally bigots
She probably hasn’t met me yet lol. Some people place things on the way how they understand and not giving a heart to others. She’s just a brainwashed conserve.
pure example of nother closet queen
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But.you are apparently naturally homophobic
No politics today as a nation mourns with the families….post your sympathies not your issues.
I don’t know. I feel natural, I look natural, everything about me is natural….. Maybe I’m living in an altered reality?
She looks so angry. We should all give her a hug.
What an idiot!
Sorry, but who would CHOOSE to possibly alienate themselves from the people around them? I have finally accepted myself but I can tell you that like many, when I realized I was gay I tried to ignore it so as not to lose favor with my Catholic family. Thankfully I’m accepted and loved, but it was one hell of a road to get there….
No just naturally stupid, come on lady, there are more lovely gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexuals in this world, get over yourself!
I’am the mother of a wonderful gay son!
Stop posting about her, we don’t need to hear about her. She’s a nobody, just like Sarah Palin!
and naturally stupid…or maybe it was learned…o_O!!
She is just plain ignorant and uneducated.
It is so unbelievable, it could almost be from The Onion.
She is crazy.
Try not to be injured by this stupid woman. We know that a massive struggle for the rights that straight folk take for granted is underway across the world and that the ugly bigots who are against equality will say or do anything to stop it. The truth is – they are so desperate because they are loosing.Hate is less fashionable than it previously was in the west (and where it flares up in places like Uganda it is increasingly internationally condemned). Take heart that our generation has made enormous progress compared to previous ones and the effect is becoming unstoppable. People like her can say what they must and do their worst- they are being left behind by history and we will be around to wave them good riddance.
HER THEORY IS DUMB.
She needs to stfu and go away!
Hey Linda…Why would we choose to be something that is deemed by some in society as “abnormal”???? It would be great if people would focus on people like those “abnormal” sickos that set out to hurt others!
Funny, it feels pretty natural to me.
I think that it’s a sin that people like her are allowed to have children. Has anyone reported her to the Child protection Agency. (that is if anyone is mad enough to want to wake up beside her.) Not only is she a homophobe Bigot but totally mad as well.
This is an incredibly frightening woman. Sorry to get all religulous, but looking into her eyes is like peering into the gates of hell.
Dumb ass idiot is she republican ?!!!!!
I agree…I didn’t do this naturally….LOL PRACTICE makes perfect!!! and now I’m the best at it!
another idiot who should be educated in the real world!
Yes, we are! Hate to break the news to you, Ms. Harvey, but it’s genetics, it’s natural, and it’s what God intended! Deal with it!
She is a f*#king biggoted IDIOT.
she’s simply a bigoted idiot.
Yes Linda it is genetic. Also is the mother that carries a Gene. So shut your mouth when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
How would this bitch know? But thanks for your worthy opinion.
Fuck Linda Harvey. Let’s kill her.
Stupider than a stick o’ sh*t.
She can’t even make an appropriate distinction between sexuality and gender, folks. It’s unfortunate that she has a loud message but it’s full of misinformation. It’s simply sad that some ignorant people will hear her and take her falsehoods as fact. Education is our greatest weapon.
from her definition of marriage then her church should not marry people that are impotent, or have had some form of injury, or age that would prevent them from consummating. Although it seems strange to me as my Christian God and church sees marriage is a blessing for two people that recognize their love for each other and want to make their vows to each other in the presence of God and the church and their family and friends.
Is she a scientist? No, she’s simply a bigot. And, like the rest of these haters, maybe a closet case too.
And she’s ugly!
fucking moron…yes we are “born this way”! I didn’t figure out at age 11 (the 1st time I “knew”) that, well gee, I wasn’t born to any other minority group & persecutions sounds like SOOO much fun….I guess I’ll be a Lesbian! that’ll do it!
Her eejitcy seems totally natural !
We are humans, we are mammals, there are over a hundred different kind of mammals that are in fact homosexual. It is natural to be gay. What gay man had her fall in love with him but didn’t love her back? Who scorned this woman into being so hateful and ignorant?
She must not be a natural human…
when are we going to stop reporting on this woman. the LGBT community gives way too much attention on her. shes irrelevant, ignore her and she’ll just go away.
Did not know there were people that uninformed….
I think Mrs Harvey needs to shut her old face up she along with many others have no idea what is or is not natural
there are hundreds of known cases of homosexuality in animals throughout nature only one species is homophobic though.
Let’s play a game of word replacement.
“Why should the equal protection argument be made in favor of christian/conservative/religious behavior, which is changeable? People are not naturally christian/conservative/religious.”
…and with her indirectly stated “straight, reproductive relationships are all that exist in nature” claim, she clearly hasn’t spent time with animals or watching any nature programs.
Not one of her statements were accurate and fact-based.
just what we need another Anita Bryant!
hey lady, we share the last name and yeah…I AM NATURALLY GAY AND VERY PROUD OF IT!!!!
She couldn’t be more wrong
You are made the way you are….I’ve always known who I am….Does she know who she is…….lol
Being Christian is NOT natural!
i have all ways been bisexual allways have and wil be forever
I guess she’s not naturally heterosexual
What a dork.
Don’t trust anyone who uses a shotgun to put on their make up.
Oh, horse hockey.
Horse pucky lady you don’t know what your talking about
she should give it a rest already
Does anyone else see an Adam’s Apple, or is that just a terrible case of Turkey Neck? This manly looking woman needs to go find a surgeon and get that neck taken care of instead of worrying about people that are not worrying about her.
People are naturally ignorant
Innocent children are murdered while hateful people like this, maggie gallagher and brian brown continue to be allowed to live and spread their hatred. Tell me why I should believe in your god again??
She is an abomination!!!!!!:(
is ignorance natural??
She’s definitely a closet lesbo… Just look at her!