Back in March, Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign proudly announced the endorsements of “some of Ohio’s top conservative leaders,” including Mission America’s Linda Harvey and Cleveland Right to Life’s Molly Smith. Harvey is one of the most extreme anti-LGBT activists in the country, while Smith lastgarnered national attention when she a ngered some of her fellow anti-abortion activists by working against the reelection of Sen. Rob Portman when he came out in favor of marriage equality.
In January, Harvey joined Smith on her daily radio program for an interview thatSmith recently re-posted on her website, in which they discussed how LGBT rights will turn children into “selfish” “sexual barbarians” and repeated unfounded claims about a link between homosexuality and pedophilia.
Smith lamented that “we are destroying our children” by failing to “recognize the devastation that is happening to our children through promoting this unhealthy, abomination style of sexual contact.” Harvey agreed that “we are looking at a generation of kids that are coming up who will have, who will be such, or at least a fair number of them will be such sexual barbarians.”
Harvey said that when children are “sexualized early” they learn to toss “people away from your own pleasure,” and that the same thing happens with homosexuality because “when you take pregnancy out of the mix, the opportunities are infinitely more and it seems as though the consequences are less.”
Someone with that mindset, she said, “is just that much more selfish, that much more immediate-gratification-oriented, and there are so many character issues that are related to letting that happen.”
Smith responded that it’s important to “help” people when a “life incident that has turned them to homosexual behavior, we need to support them to turn back again and to become fully functional human beings.” She added that she made her comments “with love.”
The two then discussed an interview that Smith recently conducted with Walt Heyer, a man who formerly identified as a transgender woman and has written about being abused as a child, which Smith cited as proof that “the abuse that’s going on within the homosexual community” is being covered up.
“So we are being told to be quiet about the abuse that’s going on within the homosexual community, we’re not allowed to talk about it unless it happens to be a pastor or a priest, and then it’s all over the place about how they are pedophiles,” she said. “I mean, yeah. The same thing is going on within the supposed mainstream homosexual behavior too.”
“Right, and Christianity tends to put a lid on those human impulses,” Harvey responded.
