Linda Harvey of Mission America is speaking out against a grant to the anti-bullying group to help schools create “safe spaces” for LGBT students that are targeted for harassment. The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) said it has worked with both the Clinton and Bush administrations in prior years to combat school bullying, but in a World Net Daily article entitled “Hope and change 2011: Now homo and change,” Harvey specifically attacks the Obama administration for pushing “its destructive priorities.” Harvey, a fierce critic of GLSEN and the It Gets Better Project, tells WND that anti-bullying programs represent “child corruption” that are “fast-tracking youth into homosexuality and gender confusion”:

“Schools can punish bullies without endorsing ‘gay’ behavior,” argues Mission America, an organization that researches and reports on social issues affecting Christians in America. “This is child corruption, funded by taxpayers.”

“We can only hope few schools agree to this scheme for fast-tracking youth into homosexuality and gender confusion,” Linda Harvey, president and founder of Mission America, told WND. “Our federal government, through this grant, essentially agrees with the mythology that some humans are ‘born gay.’ They are therefore willing to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars during a national fiscal crisis to defy parental rights, Christian moral tradition, and sound health practices.

“Once again, this administration is demonstrating its destructive priorities,” Harvey continued. “If this GLSEN program is implemented, impressionable teens will suffer for it. I am calling on Congress to put a halt to this grant.”