Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 144
March 13, 2014
NOM looking for 'good men' to stop gay men
The quote often attributed to Edmund Burke (though its debatable whether he even said it) is "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Since NOM thinks marriage equality is, in fact, evil, they have no problem applying it to their pro-discrimination movement:
Adorable. That they think they refuse to admit defeat speaks to that spunky American spirit. Way to keep a rosy outlook, NOM.
Oh, and I also agree that it's good to look for a good man. I (legally) m...
'Pro-family,' 'traditional marriage,' 'values' group throws stones from word-twisting glass house
Today's American Family Association poll:
[AFA poll]
Right now tolerance is in the lead—and that is the last time you will ever see me type that phrase in reference to the American Family Association.
Video: Well at least this WND contributor admits he doesn't want businesses 'validating' our 'perverse behavior'
Most of the far-right conservatives have worked overtime pretending that the recently vetoed Arizona bill was about anything other than discriminating against LGBT customers. Kudos (as limited as they may be) to WND contributor Michael Anthony Peroutka for at least owning the fact that bill supporters (a) absolutely wanted to deny gays and (b) that their motivation was fully guided by a drive to force "god's law" into every aspect of public life:
[WND]
#ThrowbackThursday: An earlier opportunist's novel attempt to exploit 'religious freedom'
These days, it's all about anti-gay conservatives trying to overextend religious freedom so that it allows them to discriminate against LGBT people in public accommodations. In 1971, another man of faith has his own novel ideas:
November 9, 1971
Points for trying, I guess.
Notre Dame to host gays-should-just-form-spiritual-friendships panel
Next Monday, anti-equality activists Ryan Anderson (who has written that gays must be celibate) and Sherif Girgis (who was recently dismissed from a federal court because his "expert testimony" was simply personal opinion) will join former NOM associate Jennifer Roback Morse (who has made several calls for gay people to not be gay) on a marriage panel at Notre Dame University. Also on the panel will be Ron Belgau, a man who has created an entire website built around the idea that gay people s...
FRC denies 'religious freedom' bills are intended to deny service—while linking to clip all about denying service to gay man
Still in shock over GOP governor Jan Brewer's recent decision to veto her state's license-to-discriminate bill, the Family Research Council has dedicated a section of its weekly "prayer targets" to the matter. FRC's intention, for the umpteenth time, is to make the case that LGBT activists are lying when we say that bills like these were created by groups just like FRC so that likeminded business owners can deny service to LGBT customers whenever they are feeling too religiously anti-gay to p...
March 12, 2014
What the hell is going on in ADF's confusing new attempt at a meme?
Check out this new Alliance Defending Freedom social media graphic, which I found on the National Organization For Marriage's Facebook page:
Can someone please explain to me what they're trying to say? At first glance, it looks like the gay men win, since they are on the weighted side. But I guess they're trying to say that our "win" in this supposed game is "false"? Or something?
And what's with the little stick figure looking up at the opposite sex couple? Why'd the pants and the dress wearer...
Discriminatory group defends discrimination by grouping discrimination victims with other discriminatory groups
Of course the problem with all of the faux "religious freedom" cases is that the bakers and florists and photographers and innkeepers wanted to deny a service that the do, in fact, offer (wedding cakes, floral arrangements, family wedding portraits, shared rooms, etc.) precisely and pointedly because the request came from a gay or lesbian person. But now listen in as the head of one of the nation's most anti-LGBT organizations blatantly turns the oppressed into the oppressor (and vice versa)...
