Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 125
May 1, 2014
'Newsweek' covers the crumbling (already crumbled?) 'ex-gay' movement
The "ex-gay" idea is one of the most horrible lies that people who claim to be acting of God have pushed into broader American culture. Thankfully, it's going down the tubes; Newsweek is helping it get there:
I would be in hotel rooms, and I would be on my face sobbing and crying on the bed,” [former Newsweek cover boy John Paulk] says. “I felt like a liar and a hypocrite. Having to go out and give hope to these people. I was in despair knowing that what I was telling them was not entirely hon...
Move over, ambulance chasers—ADF finds new siren call in Prop 8 'victims'
Exceedingly anti-LGBT lawyer Charles LiMandri has teamed up with pro-discrimination legal outfit Alliance Defending Freedom to offer free legal help to those "hurt" because of their attempt to discriminate against their neighbors:
FOLSOM and RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. — Alliance Defending Freedom and the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund are jointly offering free legal analysis and possible pro bono representation to anyone losing his or her job or suffering other job-related consequences becaus...
Maggie Gallagher refers to a gay kid, wedding as 'family crisis'
Maggie Gallagher isn't mad at Prop 8 attorney Charles Cooper for essentially selling out his movement and admitting that his views on marriage, like so many other people's views on this topic, are evolving. No, no, because you see, Maggie understands what a terrible "family crisis" Cooper must be going through, due to his gay daughter and her plans to go against "natural law" and all:
Unbeknownst to any of us, [Prop 8 lawyer Charles Cooper] was at the time in the middle of the turmoil of the p...
Prop 8 leaders catering to Singapore org. that fights to keep homosexuality criminalized
I've already told you that Jennifer Roback Morse and Pastor Jim Garlow, who were both prominent spokespeople for California's Proposition 8 campaign and both remain highly connected to America's "protect marriage" movement, are in Singapore so that they can speak to an anti-gay conference. But it turns out it's worse than I even realized.
After going back and looking at the data, I learned that the organization to which Garlow and Roback Morse are catering literally fights against the decrimi...
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Harris praises pastor who implied gay people are worse than maggots
Pastor Mark Harris, who is running for the U.S. Senate out of North Carolina (contesting for Kay Hagan's seat), recently shared these words from the pulpit of a church at which he was guest preaching:
"Thank you so much, Brother Ron. I’ll tell you, it is a real pleasure for me and a humbling experience, to be able to be here this morning and to share in this great church. I have grown up in Winston-Salem and pastoring my first church out of Center Grove Baptist Church in Clemens. I have known...
April 30, 2014
Ooh, tough Matt Barber talking tough again; we're so intimidated, Matt. Really.
Liberty University's fine faculty at work, folks:
Okay, Matt, I think it's time you and "gay marriage" take your issues outside. Or maybe to a private room?
We all know you think gay people are 'same-sex attracted' and need to be chaste, Ryan; come out
Richard Evans is a gay man who chooses to be celibate because he believes his Catholic faith demands it of him. He writes:
"I have occasionally told a friend or even posted on my Facebook page that I thought a certain man was very attractive. This has scandalized a few, and they have told me so. My answer to them is always the same: 'When I chose celibacy, I did not become blind.; So try getting over the fact that I find attractive men attractive. I do. Appreciating the human form is not the s...
Franklin Graham was 'as grieved by' World Vision's temporary tolerance as 'anything in my lifetime of ministry'
Franklin Graham, the future's lock-solid Jeopardy! response for "scion most determined to define his esteemed daddy's legacy by anti-LGBT animus," is back with yet more obsession over gay people and our basic acceptance. Addressing the recent situation in which the World Vision Christian charity temporarily made room for believers in same-sex marriages before ultimately reversing itself in a truly cowardly about-face, the younger Graham reveals that this one organization's days-long measure o...
