Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 131
April 16, 2014
More animus from Texas' key 'protect marriage' guy
Whenever Texas' marriage debate comes back in the spotlight, as it did earlier this year, Jonathan Saenz is the one man who the local media outlets bring on air and in print to represent the opposition. And of course Jonathan, like most everyone who speaks to the mainstream press in favor of what they call "traditional marriage," pretends that his opposition is limited, practical, and focused. He never admits it's because he's anti-gay, instead saying his views come from him being "pro-marria...
April 14, 2014
Photo: NOM fully (and finally) owning its wholly faith-driven root
Your personal faith view on religious marriage cannot be used as basis for denying other people's *civil* marriages. Period. Full stop.
And yet that is the basis on which the National Organization For Marriage will, by its own admission, will march on the nation's capital:
[SOURCE: NOM's silly little March For Marriage]
NOM and everyone who works there or supports the pro-discrimination organization's efforts has every right to stand for what they believe to be God's truth. They do not, however,...
Our winning movement wins another one: Judge says Ohio must recognize out-of-state marriages
The week is starting off right:
Court orders Ohio to recognize married same-sex couples [Wash Blade]
Video: Tony Perkins is pissssssssssssed at Chick-fil-a
LGBT activists won the larger Chick-fil-A debate, as we always knew we would. CEO Dan Cathy says he is now "more wise" and, whatever his personal beliefs may be (to be clear, they don't see, to have changed), has vowed to never again enter into the political debate over marriage. That's because discrimination is terrible for business; Dan Cathy made that even clearer than it already was.
Tony Perkins, professional discriminator who says terribly hostile things about certain kinds of humans, jo...
You must be so proud of this headline, @ChristianPost
If "Christian" Post wants to run headlines like this, perhaps it should change its name to more accurately reflect its heart:
Christian Post opinion piece by Matt Barber
Forget casting stones: these voices of Jesus are seriously casting gay human beings as "filthy" and on some sort of holy war. Shameful.
READ: Full page 'NY Times' ad pleas to supposedly refreshing new Pope: Take strong stand for LGBT youth
This ran as a full page ad in the Palm Sunday edition of The New York Times:
FULL PAGE NY TIMES AD calls on Pope Francis to stand with LGBT youth
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and—activists who try to strip certain citizens of certain civil rights?!
Sometimes I think the pro-discrimination National Organization For Marriage, one of the most offensive and ill-operating special interest groups in all of American politics, can't get any worse. And then it does something like equate the struggle of modern day Americans who wish to deny gays and lesbians the freedom to marry with the struggle of American abolitionists prior to the Civil War:
Scholars, public figures, and average citizens who publicly defend the institution of marriage as the c...
Here we go again: Anti-equality activist going after Christian publisher for simply publishing an LGBT-affirming view
Matt Barber, the Liberty Counsel attorney is among the quickest to jump in whoever an anti-LGBT person faces intra-company pushback for his or her view, is starting his week by going after Christian publisher WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group. That publishing house's one and only "wrongdoing": publishing a book, through one of its various imprints that is specifically geared toward works "that encourage an open, inclusive, and culturally engaged exploration of faith," that pro-
LGBT author...
April 11, 2014
NOM co-founder warns Christians of the supposed gay-initiated perils that lie ahead
I'd think the victim costume would get hot and uncomfortable. Maybe a little scratchy. Particularly when it's as ill-fitting as the one that the backers of discrimination are trying to force themselves into.
Yet the anti-LGBT conservatives insist on putting on that costume and doing an overwrought routine for an American public that they weren't able to win over on merit alone. Here now, one of the anti-equality movement's key thought leaders stars in his next scene.
[Andrew T. Walker, Directo...
