Right-Winger Harvey: Gays “Hate Jesus Christ”

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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It may come as a surprise to LGBT Christians, but according to right-wing radio host Linda Harvey, gays and feminists "hate Jesus Christ."

On a recent broadcast of her Mission: America show commemorating the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Harvey said people on the left have failed to stand up to what she termed "radical Islam."

"How in the world can the left be aligned with these folks?" she said. "Well, there's a real simple answer, I think, in that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They all hate the actual Judeo-Christian heritage and those who uphold it, they hate the West ... they hate the ideology, they hate the freedom. It's a spiritual thing, they hate Jesus Christ.

"This is why you have the homosexual and pro-abortion feminists remaining silent or actually being apologists for radical Islam. Hello, they would be the first people that in an Islamic state that would come under some level of oppression, why wouldn't they be afraid of these people? No, because they all hate Jesus Christ and his followers."

In various broadcasts, Harvey has claimed that no one is really LGBT, saying it's "the lifestyle, not the person, because there are no such humans"; denounced the It Gets Better Project; and said LGBT people are bad employment risks and should not hold teaching posts or other jobs that bring them into contact with children.

Listen to her "hate Jesus Christ" clip here, via LGBTQ Nation.