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(46,335 posts)
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 02:55 AM Dec 2012

Guess what! Gays ain't people!

Well, this ditz who got hit on the head too many times with a big family Bible says so...

An American Christian radio host who last week said that same-sex marriage encourages children to have gay sex has now said that as she believes humans aren’t naturaly homosexual, gays aren’t ‘people’ and shouldn’t be protected under the definition of a person.

Linda Harvey, a radio host with an Ohio based Christian radio station WRFD asked her Mission America listeners: “Why should the equal protection argument be made in favour 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 behaviour for which there’s no recognised science demonstrating a genetic or hormonal origin. And it’s also not beneficial and does not stand the definition of marriage, used for millennia – 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.”

The right winger continued: “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.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/14/us-radio-host-gays-arent-human-so-arent-protected-by-the-us-constitution/

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Guess what! Gays ain't people! (Original Post) Archae Dec 2012 OP
By her logic Vegetarians aren't people either then. Locut0s Dec 2012 #1
If we follow Harvey's argument... ck4829 Dec 2012 #2
She is wrong on so many counts. Chipper Chat Dec 2012 #3

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
2. If we follow Harvey's argument...
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 03:01 AM
Dec 2012

Should the 14th Amendment apply to people with pacemakers or glasses, what about people with dyed hair or tattoos, and that whole "cultures have said a firm 'no' to" thing; people have said "no" to Jews, the Irish, blacks, Muslims, Catholics in Protestant countries, Protestants in Catholic countries, and more, so what about that?

I want to say "unbelievable", but I can't anymore.

Chipper Chat

(9,680 posts)
3. She is wrong on so many counts.
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 03:03 AM
Dec 2012

Homosexuality IS natural.
What RELIGIONS say is irrelevant.
She is ignorant of the fact that there ARE marriages without consummation.
I have never known any animals to be married in a church.

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