Paul Harvey is a raging homophobe. And now you know the rest of the story!

[Ian David]

From: Alliance For Marriage [e-mail]
Date: Nov 21, 2005
Subject: Paul Harvey Warns of "Home Invasion"


In his Friday, November, 18th broadcast, "The Rest of the Story," American icon Paul Harvey encouraged his listeners to read Rebecca Hagelin's book, Home Invasion. Ms. Hagelin is a friend and supporter of the work of the Alliance for Marriage. She believes strongly that more children should be raised in a home with a mother and a father. Paul Harvey invited all of his listeners to read this compelling book and to begin a discussion with him about our over sexualized culture. His comments in full:


Have you yet seen the book called Home Invasion? A young wife and mother named Rebecca Hagelin in Washington, DC says there is more than one kind of terrorism threatening our children and us: the perversions of sex that we see in movies and on TV and of course on every news stand. They made it so difficult for Mrs. Hagelin to shelter her family from this social sickness that she chose to warn us with authority and certainty that our homes are being invaded now! TV with some degree of sex content in 70% of its programs, with 5 overtly sexual scenes per hour, has to know what it's doing.

I read her book and I found myself sharing her indignation. And this morning I began to share her urgency, when I heard that the LA times had launched a regular pornography feature on the page reserved for entertainment. A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation concludes that we are being engulfed by sex with 70% of all TV programs symptomatically sick and infecting all of us. I'd like your input before discussing the subject any further though. Matter of fact read the book Home Invasion by Rebecca Hagelin. Read the book -- then let's talk about it.

Let Paul Harvey know what you think by e-mailing him here:

http://www.paulharvey.com/email_form.shtml

You can hear Paul Harvey's report by following the Friday Noon link at:

http://www.paulharvey.com

The section on Home Invasion can be found about 7 minutes into the report.

some links deliberately not included.

[yy4me]

1. I cannot listen to this man, let alone read anything he recommends.

His method of presenting his opinion as news offends me. How many people believe his comments constitute an unbiased presentation of events? I would venture that most of his daily "news" should be best placed on the editorial pages or qualified as opinion before it is presented. My opinion only.

[Skittles]

2. the man just plain creeps me out

you just know he has skeletons galore in HIS closet

[sui generis]

5. and possibly in the John Wayne Gacey memorial

crawl space under his house.

[swimmernsecretsea]

11. I agree.

And I recall reading a while back about some scandals in his life. I just find him plain creepy as all get out, so I pretty much ignored the article. In fact, I've never thought of him as particularly significant--more as the same as those silly filler articles that appear in the paper when a colum has a bit of space left over. It's all based on sentiment, wild coincidence, and cute ironic detail.

To quote Paul Harvey...

Page two!

[shoelace414]

3. Get got the Medal of Freedom from Bush

and now you know the rest of the story.

[sui generis]

4. wait wait wait, there are perversions of sex on TV?

reeeeeeeeeeally.

I believe the author is a bit confused about what sex IS.

A single mom raising her kid
A gay lawyer and his gal pal
A vampire slayer's best friend and her girlfriend
Some soap opera stuff about somebody sleeping with somebody else

As far as I know, "sex" broadcast family hour TV is only ever really depicted in it's lead-up or aftermath, and the people who suffer from bad choices in those stories do so because they don't have the experience and wisdom to make better choices at the time they make them. That's what makes the story interesting.

But when they fight and break up or ride off into the sunset together, it's not because of sex. It's always because the übervamp was resurrected and chased everyone out of sunnyvale or because said boyfriend had a sixth toe or whatever . . . usually not the diddling.

These people are obsessed with everyone else's pee pees. It's got to be a pathological form of sexual addiction. I'd do a master's thesis on it - there's certainly plenty of research material in the conservative community.

[Wetzelbill]

6. yeah he's nuts

I never knew that until this last summer. I read some crazy stuff he was saying. I used to think Paul Harvey was a nice fluffy old man. He's not operating on all cylinders.

[benburch]

7. And he has a thing for horses!

(Bartcop fans will get that one.)

[BJW]

8. "raging homophobe" is a bit of over the top rhetoric, no?

[Ian David]

9. If I were the Devil (a piece that may be attributed to Paul Harvey)

"I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled; "

Origins: The piece quoted above began circulating in mid-1999 under the title "If I Were the Devil," attributed to long-time radio commentator Paul Harvey. It's a reworking of a similar piece which was making the rounds as far back as early 1993, with the same title and also attributed to Mr. Harvey:

<snip>

We haven't yet been able to ascertain whether this piece (or its older variant) was actually penned by Paul Harvey, whether it was merely read by Paul Harvey during one of his daily broadcast and listeners (incorrectly) assumed he therefore wrote it, or whether it's an essay created by someone else which has become attributed to Paul Harvey because people think it sounds like something he would say.

More:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/devil.asp

There's more out there, but I have to leave the house now and don't have time to find it.

[Democrats_win]

12. Great link, which includes an Alternative version everyone might like:

Alternative: from
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/devil.asp

If I were the devil . . .

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that a 3000-year-old collection of superstition and mythology called the 'Bible' was a more valid guide to the modern world than reason and science;

I would promote an attitude of valuing economic expansion and personal wealth over people and the environment, instead of the other way around;

I would dupe an entire population into placing the greatest tax burden on their poorest citizens;

I would convince people that image rather than achievement was the most important issue when it comes to leadership;

I would ensure that men maintained control over women's bodies and sexuality;

I would make it socially acceptable to deny terminally ill patients the right to end their own lives with dignity, and instead force them to spend their final days in continual pain and suffering;

I would promote the exploitation and suffering of animals as much as possible, so that business profits would be valued more than treating living things humanely;

I would coerce schoolchildren into worshiping my god and call it "freedom of religion";

I would get control of the government by stealing elections and leading the country into unnecessary wars, so that I could twist the laws of the nation to suit my agenda;

I would attack minorities, foreigners, women, homosexuals, and every other powerless group, the backbone of any nation;

I would force couples to remain in unworkable marriages. Unhappy people are easier to control;

I would suppress freedom of speech and expression, and I would call it protecting society;

I would convince the world that people choose to be homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be reviled and demonized;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few bigoted religious zealots who refer to their agenda as Christian;

I would persuade people that the Bible, a book that condones xenophobia, slavery, subordination of women, and stoning people to death, is a relevant guide to modern life;

I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.
----end

So, if you were the devil and wanted people to turn away from good, what is the best way to do it?

Start a "christian" church of course! And, guess what, that´s exactly what he did. Now that´s the rest of the story.

[orwell]

10. Sex is sick...

but violence is "godly"...

and now you know the rest of the story...

[Democrats_win]

13. PH Triumphs Smallpox Blankets To Native Americans, Black Slavery

In case anyone forgot what this compassionate CONservative believes:

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/050705paulharvey.htm
--snip
But we didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy.

Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.

Yes, that was biological warfare!

And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.

And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.
--

[Quetzal]

14. my father would turn on his show while I was going from home to my

elementary school. I would always sing some tune in my head while he listened to Harvey's bullshit.