Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 12
June 1, 2015
Video: Watch ADF Litigation Counsel condemn nondiscrimination ordinances via odd rehearsed monologue
Over the years, I've described certain bits of anti-LGBT activism as "performance art." This one, however, truly looks like a college student performing a dramatic monologue for her Stage Performance 101 class:
Nice projection, Ms. Holcomb, but I just didn't feel you were connecting with the material. Acting is all about immersion. If you really feel threatened by the man (didn't happen) that you claim (didn't happen) scared you at a restroom (didn't happen), then you need to really did de...
Third generation Wildmon vows to keep American Family Association as anti-gay as ever
Walker Wildmon, the young son of current American Family Association president Tim and grandson of founder Don, will never support gays or our pagan agenda:
Christians are under attack even from those who profess to follow the same God that is in the Bible. But you and I know that those who endorse sinful behavior are deceived and now working against the God they once proclaimed.
One thing you can count on is that the American Family Association will never endorse a behavior that God call...
Pro-fairness groups relish in Texas legislature's failure to enact crude, late-hour, desperate discrimination
Another sign of the times: Even the conservative legislature of Texas is unable to pass bills that subjugate LGBT rights. A coalition of LGBT rights groups is celebrating the victory:
Texas legislators filed at least 23 bills promoting and in some cases requiring discrimination against LGBT people and their families. The bills included measures that would have allowed the use of religion to discriminate, subverted a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-s...
May 29, 2015
Onetime key NOM ally arrested for child pornography
In 2012, the National Organization For Marriage aligned itself with the politically active Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY, in order to elect a Republican named David Storobin to a lone six-month term in the New York state senate. At the time, NOM president Brian Brown specifically singled out one man, Joseph Hayon, for his leadership:
At the time, I found this notable because Hayon and his team were so extremely anti-gay that I saw it as proof that NOM really was an animus-driv...
Gossip, trash talk is heart of the anti-LGBT movement
Since becoming a parent, something I've prioritized for both myself and my family is the elimination of gossip and smack-talk from our lives. At only twenty months old, my daughter is already a sponge who often mimics words and actions right after I say or perform them. My husband and I are hyper-aware of how we are modeling behavior for her every second of the day, and it has informed how we treat our fellow travelers on this planet, whether they are in the room or not. We've never been all...
Sen. Mike Lee to align with rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council
The far-right is determined to make a thing out of Solicitor General Verrilli's relatively unremarkable comments during the recent SCOTUS marriage hearing. To this end, Republican US Senator Mike Lee is aligning his name with the Family Research Council, one of the most viciously anti-LGBT organizations working today:
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Next month's Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage and the consequences for religious institutions will be the focus of...
Video: Nondiscriminatory business practices are like tornadoes. Or something.
It's a good thing natural disasters exist. If not, the far-right wouldn't have a reductive and offensive thing with which to compare LGBT rights and other fair-minded aspects of civil life:
Although I do actually see one comparison: Any responsible business owner should know to purchase insurance in case of natural disaster; any responsible business owner should know that he or she has to follow the fairly enacted nondiscrimination policies to which all public accommodations are bound.
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May 27, 2015
Maggie Gallagher forfeits right to ever again talk about gay-related 'slippery slopes'
In a piece in which she tries to make Jon Stewart look silly for questioning the businesses that want to exclude gay customers, and tries to make the GOP presidential field look more electable if they are more anti-gay, longtime marriage inequality activist Maggie Gallagher poses this question of gay consumers everywhere:
"Why not ask gay couples [to] buy a cake next door instead?"
Now, if we were talking about one gay couple and one cake, that might be a negotiation worth h...
Extremely anti-gay FRC to lecture folks how to 'rightly' respond to 'wrong' SCOTUS decision
If you're an exceedingly anti-gay special interest group that has spent the past two decades prioritizing discrimination and general animus toward a minority population for the purposes of both politicking and fundraising, what do you do when you're living on the cusp of a high court decision that could deal you the biggest repudiation yet? You start spinning:
[FRC]
You know, FRC, if you and yours had the right arguments all these years, you might not be working so hard to shape a "rightl...
