Radio host: God is making children gay to punish us for abortion

An evangelical radio host has claimed that God makes children gay as a “punishment” for all the abortions in the world.

The surreal claim comes from Linda Harvey of Mission: America, a columnist for far-right website World Net Daily and the host of a fringe evangelical radio show.

Harvey, who is best known for telling religious parents to reject their gay children and to try and cure them, was speaking at the Bringing America Back to Life Convention when she shared her theory on where gay people come from.

In her speech, noted by Right Wing Watch, Harvey suggest the LGBT community was created by God as a “punishment” for all the abortions.

She said: “You may have thought these were separate issues, but they are foundationally connected.

“One has to consider, first of all, the horrifying possibility that this complete sexual and human identity meltdown could be an aspect of God’s judgment on us for aborting millions of our children

“We won’t know until we see him, but it is very possible that as an instrument of God’s judgment, he is using the punishment to come on us through our children, the corruption of our children.

“Even more horrifying, we are letting it happen.”

She continued to paint vivid pictures about gay sex.

Harvey said: “The same-sex pair purposely avoids vaginal intercourse in favour of everything but.