Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 116
May 28, 2014
Sure, I told the world you're broken and undeserving of rights—but I smiled when I did. So we're good, yes?
Speaking to the rabidly anti-gay American Family Association's pointedly hostile "news" site, One News Now, first compares homosexuality directly to addiction and adultery. Then he bemoans the following state of affairs:
"... It's been my experience as one whose been on the forefront of these culture wars that it doesn't matter how much you smile, how much you show compassion, that if you label homosexuality as a sin you're going to be labeled as 'intolerant' and a 'hate monger.'"
—Proudly anti...
May 27, 2014
Just when you thought NOM was done embarrassing itself in Oregon...
...the in-no-way-Oregon-based anti-gay group goes and does this:
[NOM]
"Can't you let anything go, John?" asks the exhausted neighbor who beat Eastman at Hungry Hungry Hippos back in 1968 and who has spent the past four decades entertaining the NOM lawyer's claims to have found new stipulations in the rules that vindicate his childhood failure to capture the most marbles.
Aggressors of a feather: Bryan Fischer thanks God for Franklin Graham's anti-gay hostility
Congratulations, Franklin Graham. Your exceedingly hostile rhetoric about gay people is not only besmirching, perhaps permanently, the legacy of your father, but it's also earning applause from the most extreme voices of the anti-gay movement:
[American Family Association's Bryan Fischer]
Billy Graham used to largely avoid the so-called "culture war," earning praise from every modern American president for his unique role in American politics and Christianity. Franklin Graham, the president and...
Video: NOM allies produce disgusting video linking marriage equality to slavery, racism, segregation
The Coalition of African-American Pastors is intimately aligned with the National Organization For Marriage (CAAP head William Owens is listed as NOM's religious liaison) and is one of the co-sponsors of NOM's upcoming March For Marriage. Now look on as this organization helps NOM in its stated goal to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks" with a video that promotes the upcoming NOM march by directly comparing "the same-sex marriage agenda" with the KKK, segregation, slavery, racism, and th...
Breaking: Program designed to accurately count population to start accurately counting population
To many, the fact that this is even a story will be biggest surprise:
The Census Bureau, which struggles to keep up with the rapid changes in American life, is about to start categorizing same-sex married couples as families.
The 2013 American Community Survey results, which will be reported in September, will mark the first time the census integrates an estimated 180,000 same-sex married couples with statistics concerning the nation’s 56 million families. Until now, they had been categorized a...
Photo: Anti-gay Boy Scouts spinoff happily gifts aggressively anti-gay politico
Trail Life USA, the offshoot that broke away from the Boy Scouts specifically so it could be an anti-gay organization (that also bans Jewish adults), has a kindred spirit in the politico who believes it's a "fact" that gays will face eternal damnation:
In return, Tony gave the organization and its young members a model for how to advocate for a political cause with such hostility that you unwittingly help your opposing movement reach its inevita...
Video: Meet the Arkansas preacher who's going to stop God from destroying America
Marriage equality was in Arkansas for a short spell, and it will be there again. In fact, it will be everywhere soon enough. Equal marriage is here to stay, obviously, and it will never go away. Residents of all fifty states need to start getting used to that fact—FACT!—right now.
Or, rather than get used to it, you can stand on a street corner and yell about homosexuality being "straight out of hell," in hopes that your fervor, ability to put a pithy message on poster board, and your heighten...
Extremely tacky NOM co-opts extremely reverent day for own extremely discriminatory cause
Gauche:
[NOM]
So tacky.
Although I do, of course, support NOM's right to be so uncouth. After all, countless brave men and women have fought and died for their right to be outspokenly hostile, exceedingly discriminatory, and just plain wrong.
Study: Gay dads can do it all, basically
As a gay dad who has spent all but a handful of hours with my baby since her first breath of life, this new study surpasses me not:
The 48 gay fathers raising children with their husbands seemed to be both mom and dad, brain-wise. Their emotional circuits were as active as those of mothers and the interpretive circuits showed the same extra activity as that of heterosexual fathers'.
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One clue: in gay fathers, but not heterosexual ones, the brain also had extra communication lines between emot...
May 23, 2014
GLAAD: How and why opportunistic anti-LGBT voices create fake debates
Why are we forced to debate utter nonsense? My latest for GLAAD:
How and why opportunistic anti-LGBT voices create fake debates [GLAAD]
