As we have noted before, Glenn Beck seems to have a rather strange understanding of what it means to be “anti-gay” since he brags that “I don’t know anybody who is anti-gay” while, at the same time, regularly associating with some of the Religious Right’s most virulently anti-gay activists.
This apparent disconnect was perfectly illustrated today when we came across a viciously anti-gay column in WorldNetDaily this weekend written by Joshua Charles, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute at William Jessup University, who co-authored Beck’s 2011 book, “The Original Argument: The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century.”
Not only did they write a book together, but Beck also featured him on his radio program and his TV show. Perhaps they just never discussed Charles’ view that gay couples having children is a “profound, disgusting, vile evil” from “the pit of Hell”:
I’ve been seeing more and more stories about children being created (by sperm donors and surrogate mothers) specifically for gay couples.
I find this to be a horrific and monstrous evil, because by default it creates children who will oftentimes never know at least one of their parents, who in most cases can’t know who one of their parents are and who in most cases, even if the parent is known, are separated from them nonetheless. At the very least, it puts a child in a situation in which he or she shall be deprived of a mother or a father, the two halves of humanity all children need.
This is EVIL. To create children and intentionally (as opposed to true adoption where a tragedy has intervened to create a need) deprive them of their mother and father is EVIL. Every single person in this world has a mother and has a father. While of course it doesn’t always work out this way because of the trials of life, the ideal is a mother and a father. And isn’t that the point? When a child is separated from his mother or father, prior to this brave new world we live in, that was a tragedy! Even if the dad was a schmuck or the mom was on drugs, or whatever the case may be, it was a tragedy that that child was deprived of a mother or a father. Now we accept it as a matter of course, because homosexual people want their “own” children at the price of them being oftentimes permanently separated from one of their parents.
No. Unacceptable.
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But now, homosexuals want their own children (ironically, the very thing they claim is not important to marriage they now claim as a new right), and to assert this right, they deprive these new children of at least one of their parents. Profound, disgusting, vile evil. That’s what that is.
Children need the masculine and the feminine. This represents the full diversity of life. They need, if life tragedy has not prevented them from having as much, a mother and a father. To create them in this manner, to deprive them of one of the halves that made them in this manner, as a matter of course, is from the pit of Hell.
