Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 140
March 24, 2014
Coming soon: Fox News reporter's anti-gay fear book fosters far-right fetish for gathering storms
Check out this ridiculous ad copy promoting the new book from Fox News' most proudly and pointedly anti-LGBT reporter, Todd Starnes:
[The literary work of Todd Starnes, the Fox News reporter who serves as a middle man/shit-stirrer between the most rabid anti-LGBT groups working in America and his mainstream media employer]
(1) Neither the Chick nor the Duck matter was about a "traditional marriage stance." In the former, the company head said gays bring God's judgement and donated to several an...
And what about the part behind the ellipsis, NOM?
The National Organization For Marriage has yet to offer an official response to Friday's historic federal court decision in favor of marriage equality. This even though (a) NOM has responded to all of the other pro-equality rulings that came down last fall and this winter; and (b) NOM is perhaps more responsible than any other special interest group for making Mark Regnerus a semi–household name, and Mr. Regnerus' "research" was throughly discredited by the judge who wrote the Michigan decisi...
Chick-fil-A CEO keeps alienation on the menu
In 2012, the far-right rallied around Chick-fil-a head Dan "gays are bringing God's judgement" Cathy in one of the most overstated and falsely reassuring political stunts in recent memory. Now, less than two years later, the same far-right is losing its ever-loving chicken poop over the fact that Mr. Cathy has vowed to get out of the marraige conversation altogether.
This is some of what it looks like:
So now Mr. Cathy has himself in a pickle, much like the one the compa...
In two days, we tell the world why we're #Marching4Marriage #Equality
In an effort to promote its second "March For Marriage" (scheduled for June 19 in D.C.) the National Organization For Marriage is going to spend this Wednesday trying to make a certain hashtag happen.
Nope. We're not going to let them.
The world is actually #Marching4Marriage #Equality, and that is the message we are going to send. I encourage you to take to Twitter on Wednesday and use the #Marching4Marriage hashtag (or perhaps the #Marching4Marriage #Equality combo) and tell the world (and NO...
Video: ADF's Fiedorek: Lily from 'Modern Family' needs a mom
A good parent recognizes that our world is structured in infinite ways, that all families are both blessed and limited in certain areas, and that our kids benefit from exposure to all kinds of people. From culture to gender to to religion to sexual orientation (and countless areas in between), all conscientious parents—straight or gay, single or coupled, married or not—strives to give their children the most robust portrait of humanity that they possible can.
But for Alliance Defending Freedom...
Video: The animated adventures of globe-trotting propagandists
The latest from cartoonist Mark Fiore, this time focusing on the Uganda fingerprints that the anti-LGBT movement in America thought they were better at hiding than they actually were:
(via J.M.G.)
FRC invites Oregon's discriminatory bakers to speak at Values Voter Summit
It's always funny to see the list of "invited speakers" that the Family Research Council announces to boost ticket sales. The list is a reliable mix of hopefuls ranging from obvious (Huckabee) to unlikely (Gary Sinise) to aspirational (Rush) to never-gonna-happen (in '07, FRC invited both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). The idea is to tempt, tease, and pander with a robust blend of actual conservative celebrities, far-right politicians, and that year's far-right causes célèbres, even thoug...
March 21, 2014
Anti-gay Michigan preacher: 'Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and our forefathers apparently died in vain'
Because gay people are on the road toward greater equality, two great voices of equality died in vain. Thus goes the latest pontification from the wrong side of history, weighing on today's historic ruling out of Michigan:
"“Judge Friedman has negated the vote of 2.7 million voters in the State of Michigan. Moreover, he has said to the almost 70 percent of Black citizens who voted in favor of marriage protection that our voting rights are no longer protected. Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther...
ANOTHER ONE: Federal judge strikes Micjigan's marriage ban!!
In yet another landmark ruling, a federal judge has determined Michigan's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional.
I'm away and writing this breaking news from my phone. More to come when I get back in front of a computer
**UPDATE: The judgement and findings are below. If you read nothing else, read the complete and utter repudiation of Mark Regnerus' "study":
MICHIGAN: Deboer Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
**The judge was a Reagan appointee. Those...
Video Harlem's 'stone homos' preacher defends his penchant for pebble-cide: 'Jesus *will* stone you'
Last week, I showed you the New York City church sign on which a preacher called for the stoning of gay people. Now listen in as Pastor James David Manning "explains" what he really meant (which is exactly what you thought he meant):
Oh, so it's not you yourself, pastor, who would bury us up to our necks in Central Park and encourage an angry mob to throw boulders at our head. No, no—it's Jesus, who is apparently going to come to Harlem and enjoy some soul food, great music, and murder.
Got it...
