Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 136

Maggie Gallagher: Fortune Teller

Maggie Gallagher has been virtually absent from the marriage debate for the past six months or so. But now the grande dame of the inequality fight is back to offer up an "I told you so":

"Endorse gay marriage, or lose your job. I predicted this world ten years ago, and people scoffed. Nice."



—Maggie Gallagher

A couple of things.

(1) Regardless of your opinion on the Mozilla situation, the fact is that Brendan Eich donated money to a constitutional amendment that ultimately stripped people of cour...

For all you need to know about Mississippi's license-to-discriminate law, look over Gov Bryant's shoulder

The Family Research Council actively lobbied for Mississippi's license-to-discriminate law, so it was no surprise to learn that FRC prez Tony Perkins was invited to the Gov. Phil Bryant's signing ceremony. Although Gov. Bryant might be surprised to learn just how fully he discredited the idea that this bill—his bill now—is motivated by something other than animus for LGBT people/rights:

[SOURCING FOR ALL QUOTES: GLAAD CAP: Tony Perkins]

Just a coincidence that this kind of mindset was there in...

No, Brendan Eich did not hold the same position as then-candidate Obama. Stop saying that.

President Obama, while U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Obama, was on record as opposed to Proposition 8. He called it "divisive and discriminatory;" he called it "unnecessary" and "not what America's about."

Brendan Eich, the now-resigned Mozilla CEO, gave $1000 to Proposition 8. He supported it. He worked to pass it.

Yet in the hours since Eich announced his resignation, I've seen numerous conservatives claim that Eich held the same exact position as then-candidate Obama back in '08. H...

Always-boycott-happy anti-LGBT crowd back with more ludicrous 'free speech' claims

Check out this petition from ActRight, the spinoff project of National Organization For Marriage president Bran Brown:

[ActRight]

Tell me where, exactly, someone is stifling Eich's speech? He made the donations that he made, as he had the right to do. He's given interviews on the subject, as he retains ever last speech and expression right he ever had. He moves through this world with the freedom to shout his views from the rooftops without government suppression, as we all have the right to do...

Anti-gay Boy Scouts alternative bars Jewish adults, too

You probably know that the Boy Scouts of America now accepts gay youth yet still bans gay adults. That came back into light this week, with a story about the national BSA dismissing a gay scoutmaster solely because he told the truth about being gay. That is a horrible reality that lingers, and it needs to change—and pronto.

But something I find interesting is that Trail Life USA, the organization that came into existence for no other reason than to be the decidedly anti-LGBT alternative to the...

North Carolina candidate for U.S. Senate to join deeply anti-gay event

Mark Harris, a North Carolina pastor who has a long history of fighting for discrimination against LGBT people in his state, is currently in a race to be the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, hoping to face off against Democrat Kay Hagan in the fall. In order to up his senatorial credibility, Pastor Harris will soon join some of our nation's most anti-LGBT voices at an upcoming Family Research Council event:

Bishop Jackson has described same-sex marriage as "a satanic plot to destroy our seed." Ton...

Cloudwelder, Virion, NOM, ActRight: A flurry of names raise just as many questions

About a year ago, I stumbled on the name "Virion Strategies," which I found as a random mention on the main website of pro-discrimination special interest group the National Organization For Marriage. Since then, I've been hunting for whatever information I could on this seemingly nonexistent company. I knew the enterprise was connected to longtime NOM ally Darian Rafie and that it also involved Catholic Vote's Brian Burch, but I kept hitting a dead end in terms of purpose.

Around the same tim...

Anti-gay activist forgets his movement's steady stream of boycotts; clearly he needs a Starbucks pick-me-up

In an attempt to make pro-equality people look bad for expressing hesitancy toward the Firefox browser, since it has come out that the parent company's CEO donated to the deeply discriminatory Proposition 8 campaign, California activist Randy Thomasson lays the following trap:

In addition to intolerance, Thomasson sees a double standard at play. "Look at the head of Starbucks. Starbucks is very much taking people's dollars for coffee and handing it to homosexual activists and their political c...

GLAAD: Newsweek's co-owner thinks strong support for so-called "ex-gay" therapy isn't relevant to the magazine

Newsweek's co-owner thinks that strong support for so-called "ex-gay" therapy isn't relevant to the magazine [GLAAD]

Video: OR gubernatorial candidate equates 'sin' of same-sex marriage w/ murder; local serial killers busily register for china

I'm kind of obsessed with this (R) candidate for governor of the state of Oregon:

(*gay comment comes at 2:15)



[OregonLive.com]