Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 105
June 23, 2014
Maggie Gallagher's next gig: convincing libertarians to be social conservatives
Come fall, the National Organization For Marriage co-founder and past president will appear on a panel for the extremely anti-gay Family Research Council, where she, conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway, and a Rand Paul guy will try to build a bridge between limited government and sticking your nose into people's bedrooms (among other places):
One hundred years out, many parts of our current political climate will look downright bizarre. While the ide...
Audio: Rick Santorum caters to extreme radio host Bryan Fischer; warns of gay equality, war, jailed priests
The fact that Rick Santorum would cater to a radio host who has literally called for gay people to be rounded up and jailed is really the statement here. But just for added color, here's the tone of what the former presidential candidate and U.S. Senator conveyed to the shockingly anti-gay host and his audience:
Or, you know, Rick, you could just stop pretending that you and your viewpoints get to own and control America, coupled with that anyone who wiggles away from your unfair, discriminato...
Non–New Yorker Brian Brown proves he knows nothing about state he hopes to make more discriminatory
New York has marriage equality. Every single poll at the time of New York passing its marriage equality act showed New Yorkers supporting the law; that figure has surely only gone up in the subsequent three years.
Now check out what Brian Brown has to say about Republican Congressman Richard Hanna, an upstate New Yorker who supports marriage equality and who NOM is hoping to knock out in tomorrow's GOP primary:
"Richard Hanna has abandoned Republican principles and is a foe of New York families...
American Family Association prez knows when (soon) and why (gays) God is going to extinguish America
The keys to all of life's mysteries can be found within the Tupelo, Mississippi, headquarters of the American Family Association. For instance, American Family Association's president Tim Wildmon knows that God is likely to destroy us all because of, in large part, our growing acceptance of LGBT people. He's using his essay in this month's edition of AFA Journal to warn us all:
Our president is promoting the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer agenda like there is no tomorrow. God...
Ryan Anderson, supposed policy wonk, promoting exceedingly anti-gay book
Ryan T. Anderson, the Heritage Foundation scholar who you'll see on TV from time to time pretending to be a conservative policy wonk whose interest in "traditional marriage" is focused on policy and limited in its intent, has made it increasingly clear that his views are actually much more anti-gay than he would like the public to believe. Now on Twitter, Ryan's promoting a glowing review, written for a website that Ryan himself edits (the Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse), for a book...
FRC is an extremely deceitful org: Example #1,234,234,921
In its Friday wrap up, the staff of the exceedingly anti-LGBT Family Research Council wrote the following about nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people:
No wonder the President had to resort to an executive order on special treatment for homosexuals. Turns out, the American people aren’t nearly supportive of his agenda as the media led us to believe. In a Huffington Post poll, only 50% of Americans support an ENDA-type (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) law, which gives preference to ho...
GetEqual wishes Brian Brown a happy retirement
A funny idea:
Makes sense. Isn't the typical retirement age sixty-five years or sixty-five losses (whichever comes first)?
June 20, 2014
Bryan Fischer double feature: Anti-gay discrimination is good, Mike 'defy the law' Huckabee was awesome at #March4Marriage
On his show today, American Family Association senior spokesman Bryan Fischer, one of the single most anti-gay human beings in America, yet again made his case that discrimination against gay people is a social good:
So of course he's a big fan of what Mike Huckabee had to say at the National Organization For Marriage's hilariously failed "march for marriage." Building off Huckabee's words, Fischer said that it is now time for Americans, including state-level and congressional lawmakers, to si...
Ralph Reed advises GOP on how to keep Ralph Reed a relevant GOP leader
Longtime conservative activist Ralph Reed, who is currently hosting a conference featuring many of the top GOP contenders, is telling Republicans that opposing marriage equality remains their ticket to the future:
“People are overstating the polling,” and opposition to same-sex marriage is “definitely a winner” for Republican candidates, Reed said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
Republicans Benefit From Opposing Same-Sex Marriage...
