Evangelical Christian radio host Linda Harvey has a long history of making outrageous and offensive statements about LGBTI people.
Her latest claim, the reason there are now so many more gay people in the world is a punishment from God who is upset about abortions occurring around the world.
Harvey made the claim at convention called Bringing America Back to Life, and her speech was reported by Right Wing Watch.
The religious broadcaster said there was an intersection between homosexuality and allowing abortions.
“You may have thought these were separate issues, but they are foundationally connected.
“One has to consider, first of all, the horrifying possibility that this complete sexual and human identity meltdown could be an aspect of God’s judgment on us for aborting millions of our children
“We won’t know until we see him, but it is very possible that as an instrument of God’s judgment, he is using the punishment to come on us through our children, the corruption of our children.
“Even more horrifying, we are letting it happen.” Harvey claimed.
“The same-sex pair purposely avoids vaginal intercourse in favor of everything but,” Harvey stated.
“God has given us a quick way to assess the worth of two males or two females; these avoidance and substitution relationships involve not literal or symbolic life creation, but the opposite. They involve the waste functions of the body or empty relations with spilled sperm or substitutes for the male organ. You get the idea. They are dead-end, degrading passions.”
“There is no life and there is often disease,” she added. “It’s the recipe for personal, societal, cultural, and spiritual disaster. Death is the central driving force for the abortion movement—the death of a person. Death and the absence of new life are also the connection among the LGBT movement. Without the rejection of heterosexual norms— husbands and wives who create babies—the LGBTQ movement has no reason to exist.”
Harvey has previously argued that young men should never be allowed to have sleepovers or situations where they will be sleeping near each other because they might begin having sex with each other.
Harvey’s organisation Mission: America has been designated as an active hate group by the respected Southern Poverty Law Centre.
She’s also criticised author JK Rowling’s character of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter books, saying it is inappropriate for the wizard to be the Headmaster of Hogwarts after the author declared that he is gay.
Previously she described the It Gets Better suicide prevention project as “evil”, “dark” and “wrong”, and argued that no gay people should allowed to be teachers.
