Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 10
June 10, 2015
President Unicorn, Vice President Tooth Fairy, and Secretary Figment have yet to weigh in
When I'm queen of the popsicle people, I won't enforce gravity because it violates my enjoyment of Brady Bunch reruns. Or, for a similarly stated fantasy that's equally unencumbered by multiple realities:
AFA calls on supporters to flog Wells Fargo 'even if you're not a customer'
We all know that the pro-discrimination, pro-inequality, pro-divisive, wrong-side-of-history movement is all kinds of upset with banking giant Wells Fargo for daring to consider gay people valid customers worthy of support. But you'd think they'd at least be happy with simply having like-minded folks take their money to places that more closely fit their anti-reality agenda.
But no. The American Family Association, an organization that loves publicly shaming pro-fairness companies the way o...
June 9, 2015
Arkansas judge grants marriage equality (*to those who happened to be in love and ready to marry for six days in '14)
The big news of this day:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - A judge ordered Arkansas on Tuesday to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages that were performed during a six-day window in the state in May 2014 and have since been in legal limbo. Arkansas judge tells state to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages [Yahoo! News]
I can't wait for many things about our fifty-state-marriage-having America. But one really big one? The ripping up of this ridiculous rule book for who gets to be marr...
Careful about tripping over those straw men, Scott Lively
There isn't one person in the activist community or on "the left" who is claiming hat churches should lose their tax exempt status if they refuse to host same-sex wedding ceremonies. Instead, virtually everyone on "the left" agrees that churches will be just as free to deny wedding ceremonies to same-sex couples as they currently are able to deny ceremonies to just about any variety of man/woman coupling that doesn't fit their moral purview.
But according to extreme activist Scott Lively, t...
Maggie Gallagher's familiar 'victim' psychodrama
The article in question features quotes and recollections from a couple of actual Baltimore residents, both onetime fans of conservative darling Ben Carson. These residents use words like "disappointed" and "disconnected" and "sell-out" to describe what they say is a growing consensus among fellow African Americans who once considered Carson a hero. And even Michael Steele, the Republican pundit, former Maryland governor, and former head of the RNC, said that he wondered why Carson would wan...
Video: FRC hosts silly panel to pretend marriage discrimination is a civil rights movement
Family Research Council, like all anti-gay groups, are reeling and spinning and fretting about how they can keep the anti-equality cash cow once the US Supreme Court deals them such a massive blow via a fifty state marriage equality ruling. Today FRC hosted a panel with anti-gay activists Alveda King (who insists during the panel that homosexuality will screw up your eternity), Ken Blackwell, and Deacon Keith Fournier as a way to convince supporters they have a plan. Watch as much or as littl...
June 8, 2015
Trailer: New anti-gay movie stars actor who was on Logo's 'Sordid Lives'?!
The crowdfunded movie is called Audacity. It comes from longtime anti-gay propagandist Ray Comfort, and is already earning high praise from "ex-gay" activists like Joe Dallas and rabidly anti-gay conservatives like Joseph Farah. Here's the gist and the trailer:
Peter (Travis Owens) is an aspiring comedian encouraged by his friend Ben (Ben Price, Australia’s Got Talent finalist) to perform at the local comedy club. But stage fright isn’t Peter’s only fear. When confronted with one of today’s...
Video: Another day, another prominent conservative calling for 'an army' to rebel against marriage equality
Glenn Beck is just like Martin Luther King, y'all. And he's going to show it by encouraging folks to disobey a fifty-state marriage ruling from the US Supreme Court:
Cool plans, Glenn. Though something tells me "We shall overcome" won't sound as sweet with an added verse about needing to "overcome the very same people who had to overcome your movement's unceasingly cruel actions against them.
June 5, 2015
Video: Katie Couric interviews man who understands true meaning, purpose of love, marriage, commitment
Learn the name Jim Obergefell. I suspect you'll be hearing it a lot over the next month:
Video: Kenji Yoshino, Evan Wolfson are brilliant; NOM's chairman is arbitrarily discriminatory
The two great minds on our side are like, "this" and "that" and "oh yeah, that other thing." National Organization For Marriage chairman John Eastman, on the other hand, is basically like, "but, but, but—procreation." Here's the clip:
