This came to my attention via Right Wing Watch (I love these people).
On a radio show recently, Linda Harvey (from Mission America) and Harry Glenn (from the so-called American Family Association) were discussing the hiring of gay people and how doing so was a bad idea because of health consequences...among other things. Here is an excerpt from the show:
Glenn: Herman Miller, which is a major employer and corporation in Holland [Michigan], a furniture company, supported this so-called gay rights ordinance on the claim that it allowed them to attract the best and brightest.
Harvey: Here we go, yeah we heard that before.
Glenn: What ridiculous folly to suggest that only those individuals who engage in homosexual behavior given all of its severe medical consequences constitute the best and the brightest. It’s not really bright to engage in behavior that puts you at dramatically higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse and AIDS and cancer and hepatitis, and according to various sources, premature death. So to suggest that engaging in that type of behavior defines someone as the best and brightest, which seems to be the line coming out of corporate America, is just ridiculous.
Harvey: You’re right. And higher rates of domestic violence and unstable relationships. I would not think of a homosexual person as a good employment risk, I just wouldn’t.
First, not hiring people because of their sexual orientation is, in many places against the law. In other words, these two are telling some of their listeners to risk huge fines, possible incarceration, and the loss of their job/business in order to support homophobia.
Second, I think it's obvious that when Herman Miller said that he wants the best and the brightest, he meant that some of the best and the brightest are gay, not that all of the best and the brightest are gay. Then again, common sense, not to mention simple human decency, is lost on this lot.
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