Linda Harvey Urges Parents Not to Allow Gay Doctors to Treat Their Children

“If your son has a broken leg, which would you prefer? A nurse who is lesbian or a nurse who isn’t and failed out of nursing school? Obviously it’s the second one, because my fragile opinions about people who are different from me say so.”

How would she feel if every gay/lesbian person in the country stopped doing ANYTHING for her? Serving her coffee, cutting her hair, ringing up her sale at Walmart?
Wouldn’t  that be a fun boycott to organize?!  Oh wait…if someone refused her, I’m sure she’d file some sort of discrimination suit.

“…and can be
erroneously influential to children who won’t, or shouldn’t, see the
whole picture of how this behavior really manifests itself.”

So she wants these children to only have the negative parts of the picture of people who are gay? “Don’t let the children see that if you’re gay you can be a normal functioning, no they should only know that all gay people are savage child rapists that should only be feared.” yeah that makes sense!

How about we start making Jewish people wear stars on their clothes.  While we’re at it, hell, lets have separate drinking fountains again!

I’d actually prefer a homosexual doctor.

That way, they won’t try to brainwash my child with their bigoted anti-gay cr*p.

My values are respected when I see my doctor. I get someone interested in my healthcare. I don;t care who she is in love with. I am only glad she has the loving support someone who has her profession needs.

When I read the headline I was afraid I was going to be reading a “homosexuality = pedophilia” argument. At least it was the slightly less offensive “the mere presence of the gays will influence my children” argument. A rainbow pin on a nurse’s uniform is not going to influence your child. Your child might say something like, “I like your rainbow pin. Where’d you get it?” Have you seen the scrubs that many nurses wear in children’s hospitals? Cartoon characters, stars, animals, etc. A rainbow pin isn’t going to scream gay to a child in the hospital and the child isn’t going to find out her nurse marched in a Pride parade or is a member of their employer’s lgbt organization unless she asks. And if she asks that specific, personal question of her nurse, then she already knows enough that you need to talk to your child about the issue if it bothers you so much.

frankly, i think if these healthcare professionals are competent at their job, it shouldnt matter whether or not they are gay or straight. 

Couldn’t the same “it offends some people” theory be used on crosses or the star of David? And that was her whole argument…

From a straight women’s point of view. Listen you ignore, bigoted person. How can you judge someones ablity to perfom their choosen career by their sexuality? Do you introduce yourself as a straight woman, I don’t. It SHOULD NOT MATTER. Do you allow your child to be treated by Black, Jewish, Indians or Mexicans? I bet not. It may rub off. You are living in the wrong time period. One day you may really need a doctor, and he or she just might be Gay. Are you going to ask first or let your child die? Do you still own slaves? You act like you do.

I agree with her to a certain extent. I don’t feel that sexuality and the work place need to mix, as in things such as pinning a rainbow flag to your work clothes. If you are in a setting where you can be openly gay at work that is great, few people have that, but at the same time you don’t have to flag yourself with identifiers. 

At the same time though, if they were to decide to go through with this silly rainbow pin, it’d be wrong to discriminate against them. Unless they are raised otherwise, children really don’t care one way or the other about someones race, religious beliefs, sexuality, ect. So they wouldn’t care about the rainbow pin either. And look at the scrubs that they wear in children’s doctors/hospital offices. With all the different cartoon and animal designs, even rainbow designs are on scrubs and I’m sure straight people wear those as well. 

Saying “No, I don’t want this doctor to treat my child because they are gay” is just showing to your child that ‘there must be something wrong with gay people if mommy/daddy doesn’t want them to help me.’ Which just continues the cycle of hate and bullying and the loss of lives that this has been contributing to.

“But let’s say your eleven year-old has broken her leg rather badly and
needs to be in the hospital a few days, which would you prefer: a nurse
who’s proud of her lesbianism, who has rainbow identifiers on her work
clothing, or a nurse who does not?”

Uh, nooo… I’d prefer my child be taken care of…

This is down right ridiculous. She is saying all this like we’re some kind of disease waiting to spread in a hospital setting. I don’t quite understand how any person in their right mind thinks it’s ok and teaches your kids anything to say “Ok hun we’re taking you to the doctor but if your doctor is gay you can’t be seen by them cause the gay may rub off or something” Way to teach your kids how to accept everyone for who they are and what they believe in. This is just like saying “You can’t join the military cause there are openly gay people there and it may rub off. Can’t have the influence of gays on us while we’re fighting major wars” People disgust me in so many ways. Just let the world be and let everyone be who they are and go on about yourself cause last I checked we don’t carry around signs and stuff begging for straight marriage to be banned.

Wow really? Telling someone you don’t want them to be their child’s doctor because they are homosexual, is just wrong. Does she only want white male doctors too?

Her argument though is that gay people that are highly functioning professionals are offensive, whereas gay drug addicts or prostitutes are presumably less so? I suppose this is the problem with Gay marriage, how dare Gay people demonstrate they can be monogamous or even be responsible parents! Who knew being a competent highly functioning human being is a terrible thing … if you happen to be Gay?