Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 106
June 20, 2014
Still more #March4Marriage animus
I've already rounded up some of the worst signs for NOM Exposed. Here's one more, via my pals at Equality Matters:
FULL:Inside NOM's Second Failed "March For Marriage"[EQ Matters]
Audio: NOM's Plante claims all opposition can do is 'mock' and 'call names' #March4Marriage
I'm pretty sure that the equality movement is winning and winning and whining, while the National Organization has been on a two-year roller coaster of loss. And I'm pretty sure that it's because those of us one the right side of history have made the right arguments in courts, legislatures, and at campaign time, while the pro-discrimination movement has more and more revealed how hollow and animus-driven it really is.
NOT SO! insists the National Organization For Marriage's anti-gay communica...
One day prior to #March4Marriage, sponsor hosts lecturer who says incest is 'not quite as bad as homosexual practice'
The Family Research Council was a chief sponsor of the National Organization For Marriage's so-called "march for marriage," providing a speaker to the march and earning thanks and praise from the podium. One day before the march, FRC showed just how anti-gay it is as an organization when it hosted an in-office lecture wherein noted anti-gay activist Robert Gagnon came right out and asserted that incest is better than homosexuality in the eyes of God. Polygamy is much better, he stipulates. In...
Was the 'Be Not Afraid Club' too self-victimizing for even NOM?
Nearly two years ago, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown purchased a very self-victimizing (and amusing) domain name:
I've been waiting to have a hearty laugh on its launch date, dreaming up ways I can compare it to the Mickey Mouse Club. Yet that date has never arrived. The domain is set to expire in the fall.
I have to wonder if more sensible heads at NOM stepped in and put the kibosh on what would've surely been one of NOM's most mocked projects. I mean, w...
Video: For #March4Marriage perspective, 'Washington Times' interviews Tony Perkins' radio producer
For it's video covering NOM's hilariously failed march for marriage discrimination, The Washington Times, NOM's official media sponsor for the march, interviewed one person from the anti-equality side. That person just so happens to be the producer of Tony Perkins' daily radio show. What are the odds?
With all due respect, Chase, most of us aren' going to buy into you're "we're not against anyone" schtick, considering you quite literally help push out the message of a man with one of the most...
Tales of a Former 'Ex-gay' Poster Boy: Prodigal Paulk pens Politico essay
Must-read of the morning:
There was a time in my life when I used to sound a lot like Rick Perry. In fact, for more than ten years I was one of the nation’s leading spokesmen for the “ex-gay” movement. I traveled the country telling audiences that being gay was a preventable condition, and it could be treated if only you followed a simple plan, obeyed God and sought repentance for your sins. “Ladies and gentlemen, homosexuality is not a genetic, inborn condition,” I would say. “It is the resul...
June 19, 2014
Video: Even point-of-view–friendly media outlets are making #march4marriage seem tiny, dull, animus-driven
Even Catholic News Service has a hard time making NOM's failure of an event look focused, friendly, and lively:
#March4Marriage: Homosexuality is like drugs, smoking
From from NOM's anti-gay march, via Think Progress' Zack Ford:
