"Gays Are Not People" Says Linda Harvey

You know I really try not to create posts announcing people who are the epitome of stupidity; because when I say the epitome of stupidity I really mean it. Sure I will call people an idiot or stupid for being as dumb as a sack of potatoes, but this goes far beyond that realm. I call it the “epitome of stupidity” because this is an example of pure, real, stupidity at its finest.

Linda Harvey has 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." Apparently, being a "gay person" doesn't actually qualify one as a "person" under Harvey's understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment.

 Her theory: “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 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. 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.”

Linda, why should the equal protection argument be made in favor of Christian behavior? Christian behavior is changeable; people are not born “naturally” Christian. So the definition of “person” which is used in the Fourteenth Amendment is being twisted to make this assumption. So in other words what you’re trying to say is that Christian people are people, but gay people are not in fact people. Oh, okay, got it, thank you Republicans.

“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” Whoa hold on, two men or two women can’t consummate? Oh honey if only you knew how two men could consummate a marriage. But then again I doubt you’ve ever had sex that good.

 Here’s a question for you all. How many conservative Christians have heard the rhetoric of how same-sex marriages don’t count because nobody can get pregnant during the marriage? Because essentially you’re alienating those Christian conservatives who, for whatever reason cannot become pregnant.

“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 gay men and women are not actually male or female? This does not make any sense at all to me. So there are only male and female people? Apparently you’ve never heard of intersex people and you probably don’t care to know about them.

So Linda, I’m not sure if you are aware of this but sexuality, whether it’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, is not an activity. Your sexuality or lack thereof, is who you are as a person. If I never have sex in my life, I am still heterosexual.

Linda, all I really have to say is you need to be educated on human sexuality before you open your mouth. Because when you open your mouth and spew out trash like that, all you’re doing is showing how ignorant you right wing Republicans really are.

“So marriage is the lawful, orderly confirmation of what we already see in nature” So, Linda, I have to ask the question, when did you consciously choose to be heterosexual? How long have you been struggling with your same sex attraction? Essentially what you are trying to say Linda is that everybody is strongly bisexual. That everybody who identifies as being straight consciously chooses to be straight.

I don’t really know what else to say besides Christian fundamentalists need to stop. Its radical people like Linda Harvey who are oppressing the L.G.B.T community and it is so wrong for people to actually think that someone who is gay is not a person. Linda Harvey and all those other people like her, pull your head out of your ass now. That's what I'd like to say, but since that isn't very considerate to say, my advice to people like Linda Harvey and Fred Phelps (remember Westboro Baptist Church) is become more informed if you want to spew your hate around. So when you do spew hate, at least its informed hatred. That is all I have to say, Cheers.  

Fears

I read a quote last night that was incredibly meaningful to me. After reading it I started to think more and more about what this quote means to me, what it may mean to many others. This is the quote by Sigmund Freud: “Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”

When I read that quote I couldn’t help but think how true it is, most of all how accurate it is in today’s society. People being attracted to others, dating and relationships. People trying to express their feelings, if they like you or you like them. And I think that one of the biggest problems in today’s society is that nobody says how they feel. We’re taught in society to hold it all inside, that expressing how we feel is bad. They’re sad, or you’re sad but we don’t cry. We’re happy but we don’t sing or we don’t dance. We’re angry but we don’t scream. Because if we do, if we do any of those things, we feel ashamed. I think that it is one of the very worst feelings in the world, to hold everything in, but even I do it. So pretty much everybody walks around with their heads down, and nobody sees how beautiful the sky really is.

Seriously we all fear different things, but when you get down to it, we all fear the same things. For example, I am afraid of being rejected by my mother, father, family, and friends. I’m really, truly afraid of losing my family, because I had what some would call a “hard” birth. My mother had pre-eclampsia, a medical condition characterized by high blood pressure related to birth, and as a consequence, I was born two pounds seven ounces. I was a premature baby, and I’m constantly reminded that I could have died, so that means I should be happy being who I am: a girl. To me that seems like terrible logic. So what if I want to be a boy, in what way does that detrimentally affect my parents in any way at all?

Also I am afraid of losing my family in Scotland. I don’t really know them. Most of them are Catholics, and I just wonder if that could skew their opinion of me. I mean they seemed to accept gay and lesbian people, but I don’t know how they would accept a female to male transgender. It scares me that they may not want anything to do with me just because of who I am.

I am afraid of regretting my transition, when I’m older. More specifically I am afraid that when I look in the mirror, I won’t be able to recognize myself. Not just physically but emotionally too. I’m afraid of waking up, taking a shower, and looking in the mirror and going “who the hell are you?”

I am really afraid of always being different. Like being in a room full of people and just knowing that I’m the different one and that I will always be the different one in that room. I guess I’m afraid of being everybody else’s entertainment, something to look at, because in my mind I am incapable of truly being myself.

Alright, well that was my rant for the day. I hope you all have a lovely day. And if you feel so inclined let me know what you are afraid of. Oh and on the non-emotional side, I am really afraid of spiders. Ugh even thinking about them creeps me out.