Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 110
June 10, 2014
Shorter Janet Porter: Please let me destroy the Republican party
Anti-gay activist Janet Porter (née), who is one of those anti-gay activists who used to be a prominent conservative figure but who has gone so fringe and over-the-top so many times that even most modern anti-LGBT groups won't involve with or avail themselves of her services, is now suggesting that the national GOP adopt a platform that pushes so-called "ex-gay" therapy, the way the Texas GOP just did:
Janet Porter Wants to Spread New Texas GOP 'Ex-Gay' Resolution Nationwide [Towle]
...and not...
Being viciously anti-gay qualifies one for congressional testimony: Mat Staver edition
Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver regularly portrays homosexuality as destructive, knocks gay families, pushes so-called "ex-gay" therapy, and has on multiple occasions suggested that people who hold his view should rise up and fight a new form of American Revolutionary War against marriage equality. You can find some of that here, but there's certainly more Staver-crafted animus out there than one single page could possibly ever enshrine.
Today, this very same Mat Staver will testify before the Un...
Maggie Gallagher: Yes, cops must protect Pride Parades
Credit where it's due: Maggie Gallagher is breaking from others in her movement who are claiming a Salt Lake City police officer had a "right" to not work a Pride Parade
Agreement-thru–"culture war" feels unfamiliar. It happens so rarely these days.
'Julia Learns How To Discriminate against Heather's Two Mommies'
Conservative, anti-equality, religiously-motivated radio host and author Carla D'Addesi has written a pair of children's books, both starring a young girl named Julia and both geared toward rallying young people to conservative views. One of them is called Julia Learns How To Vote Wisely and is all about pushing socially conservative voting patterns to the pre-pubescent set; the other is called Julia Learns How To Marry Wisely and is all about promoting the restrictive view of marriage to imp...
One of America's most anti-gay orgs praises TX GOP for committing to 'cure' gay people
The Family Research Council, an organization that has never hidden its belief that the only good gay person is a "converted" gay person, is now praising the Lone State State's Republican party for rejecting both credible science and citizen welfare:
[FRC]
It's truly bizarro-nutso-crazypants that this is in a party platform in this, a time of such sweeping progress and public support. The political talk for the past few years has been all about the ability to turn Texas purple, if not full-on bl...
June 9, 2014
NY state senator filling #March4Marriage buses without actually mentioning march itself
In several emails, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown has proudly claimed that New York's most notoriously anti-gay (and cowboy hat–wearing) Democrat, state senator Ruben Diaz Sr., is bringing 100 buses to NOM's pro-discrimination march in D.C. (to be held June 19). Which could be true. Diaz is known to bus in crowds to NOM events.
Only thing? Diaz isn't actually telling people that the buses are for NOM's anti-gay march. Instead, he's selling it as a way for people to ge...
NOM shameless in its deceit, example #1,403,210,701,201,312
Last week, a federal judge dealt a crushing blow to the National Organization For Marriage's over two years of trying to raise funds and make hay out of a fake IRS scandal. Judge James C. Cacheris, a Reagan appointee, used the harshest language available to him to smack down NOM's repeated claims that there was some sort of concerted effort within the IRS, ultimately denying the org of punitive damages and essentially ending whatever self-victimization the pro-discrimination group hoped to ac...
Anti-gay 'gay' man Doug Mainwaring confident he'll still be able subjugate his own people
Doug Mainwaring, anti-equality Tea Party activist and National Organization For Marriage star speaker, identifies as a gay man. A gay man who compares the marriage equality movement to a totalitarian state and who spends his days helping anti-gay activists push the idea that the LGBT rights movement is all a big lie:
"The moral high ground the radical left seems to enjoy is extremely fragile, because its popular support has been fabricated. The left’s only hope of retaining this support is to...
Politician most known for his anti-gay animus to join event steeped in same (#March4Marriage)
I've already written a run down of most of the March For Marriage speakers and their record of saying truly terrible things about gay people (not just marriage, but people). Now add to that list a former U.S. Senator who is most known for equating same-sex marriage with "man on dog" marriage:
Rick Santorum to march for marriage with NOM [Towle]
Makes sense. I mean, not only is Santorum proudly anti-gay, just like NOM, but in both cases, their ability to win at the polls seems to be behind them....
American Family Assoc. senior staffer seeks 'Drug Court' for homosexuality
Drug Court is a program that allows nonviolent felony drug offenders to go to rehab rather than prison. According to the American Family Association's senior issues analyst for public policy and prominent radio host, this is how we need to handle gay Americans:
Because let's be clear: in Bryan Fischer's world, it's going to be one or the other, punishment or "change." On a recent edition of his radio show wherein he made the same suggestion of rounding up gay Americans and carting them off to...
