Mission: America

Mission: America is a wingnut noise-box founded and run by former advertising executive and kook Linda Harvey, a contributor to WorldNutDaily and American Family Radio. Its mission (should it choose to accept it) is to ramble on incoherently about how everything that Mrs. Harvey dislikes (in particular, homosexuality) is either "covert paganism" or "homosexual recruitment" and part of a Big Secret Plot to destroy America and Christianity.
==Origins==
According to a manifesto posted on Mission: America's website,Linda Harvey's Testimony. Archived from missionamerica.com. Mrs. Harvey effected a conversion to (wingnutty) Christianity circa 1992. Among the bombshells of truth with which she was hit at that time were:
* Homosexuality disgusted her. This qualified it as an abomination against which she had a divine commission to rant. (Perhaps she should also set up the Anti-Mudball-Fighting League as a parallel ministry.)
* There is no "escape clause" from the Mosaic Law. (Heard of the Gospel, lady?)
* Non-Christians are living in as evidenced by their idea that belong in the same sentence.
* Genesis is a literal account.
Although reading a single verse in the Bible was enough to set her on a years-long crusade against the behavior it condemned, for some inexplicable reason, upon reading certain other verses, she did not see fit even to cease the behavior they condemned.
==Homophobia==
Being convinced that the fight against gay rights is a fight for civilization,'But Christians Shouldn't Get Involved in Politics!' Archived from missionamerica.com. Mission:America engages in extensive campaigns to promote The Truth About Homosexuality. They instruct that you must absolutely forbid your children to have any gay friends; the kid might learn to doubt the Gospel TruthTM about what gays are like. Besides, the gay friend will probably wind up raping him.How Homosexual Friends Can Influence Our Kids. Archived from missionamerica.com. They also have it that homosexuality is a mental health disorder and there is no scientific research indicating that one is "born gay", so obviously one must have witch-hunts to rout the homosexual agenda from the schools, which is where children become gay via rampant homosexual recruitment.Risk Audit to Measure Homosexual Promotion in Local Schools. Archived from missionamerica.com. This is done by means of a "Risk Audit" sheet that rates the school's policies; if the school fails the risk audit, it is considered a "clear and present danger" to children. A school may fail the risk audit by having any of the following in place:
* An anti-harassment or anti-bullying program.
* A non-discrimination policy.
* Any mention of the words "diversity", "tolerance", or "sensitivity".
* Books in the school library treating homosexuality in a "misleading" (read: not hysterically damning) light.
* Sex education programs that "assume all students are at risk of AIDS" and "need to be taught about use of condoms". (Obviously it is only gays who can get AIDS, or...pregnant, it seems.)
The solution that the organization has in mind, of course, is to ban any and all gay people from teaching or generally having anything to do with youth.Linda P. Harvey, The risk of 'gay' activism in our schools. News With Views, 5 August 2001.
==Paranoia about paganism==
Mission:America is excessively paranoid about neopaganism, particularly Wicca; this is understandable, because they think you can become a full-blown pagan without realizing it.The Pagan Explosion Among our Kids: About Linda Harvey's Book. Archived from missionamerica.com. Doing any of the following things make you, in the eyes of Mission: America, a pagan:
* Celebrating Halloween, a pagan holiday.Why I Hate Halloween. Archived from missionamerica.com.
* Trading in Pokémon cards. Such a spiritually sick activity also causes autism, apparently.Behavioral Problems and the Connection to Children's Games, Occult books, Cartoons. Archived from missionamerica.com.
* Practicing the satanic art of yoga.Doctrines of Demons. Archived from missionamerica.com.
* Reading the Harry Potter books.Teen Witchcraft in America. Archived from missionamerica.com.
* Letting your daughter grow up to date someone with corrupted blood, such as a vampire.Mammas, Don't Let Your Daughters Grow Up to Date Vampires. Archived from missionamerica.com.
* Not practicing Christianity to Mrs. Harvey's particular pleasure.Compromised Christianity. Archived from missionamerica.com. Even Presbyterians are considered to be apostates who need the Gospel preached at them, and having anything to do with the Democrats is also a big no-no.The Emerging Lie: How the Religious Left and the Democrats Build a False Faith. Archived from missionamerica.com. A church is also "false" if it teaches children about doing good deeds, raises money for a downtown soup kitchen instead of an anti-abortion center, or supports women's rights.The Top 20 Traits of a False Church. Archived from missionamerica.com.
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