Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 146
March 10, 2014
Video: CPAC Republicans for a 50-state marriage (and marijuana) puzzle
In Fred Thompson and Kennedy's future, a married same-sex couples cross country road trip will be a super fun game of "wait, are we still married here?" It's a completely unworkable plan, obviously, but here it is for your own debating needs:
Oh, and marijuana and marriage are not wax on the same ball (or rips on the same bong, as it were). Marriage involves the civil rights of a minority. As our courts continue to knock down nasty marriage bans specifically because of sexual orientation discr...
'Mother Jones' keeps dusting for American fingerprints on Uganda's shocking anti-gay law
Good on Mother Jones for keeping this drumbeat alive. Worth a full read:
In late February, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation's harsh new anti-gay bill into law, he claimed the measure had been "provoked by arrogant and careless western groups that are fond of coming into our schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality." What he failed to mention is that the legislation—which makes homosexuality a crime punishable by life in prison in some cases—was itself la...
March 7, 2014
'True mentor' James Robison tells us so much about truly anti-LGBT Mike Huckabee #CPAC2014
Today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a man names James Robison introduced former Arkansas governor, onetime presidential candidate, and proudly anti-LGBT pundit Mike Huckabee. And in his introduction, Robison revealed that a younger version Mike Huckabee worked with him during the late '70s/early '80s. In the beginning of his own remarks, Huckabee proceeded to acknowledge this truth, and he said his own words about this disco era work with "dear friend" Robison being formati...
Liberty Counsel/Liberty University's Matt Barber has gay sex on the mind (again. typically. oddly.)
Matt Barber, an associate dean at Liberty University School of Law and one of the Liberty Counsel's most visible voices, has intimate knowledge with gay honeymoons. He now shares his typically high-brow insight:
You're doing it wrong, Matthew.
*NOTE: When Matt referred to gay sex as "one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love’,” his employer was forced to distance itself from his behavior. In fact, they made a big point about clarif...
Audio: Tony Perkins fosters lie that pastors will be forced to marry same-sex couples
No activist, group, or allied organization working in the LGBT rights movement is advocating to change laws so that religious figures will have to perform a wedding ceremony. We have made this perfectly clear, over and over again. Just as faith leaders have always had the freedom to deny a religious ceremony to any kind of opposite-sex couple for any reason (e.g. divorce, interfaith union, fails premarital counseling, etc.), they will retain that right as it applies to same-sex couples. You a...
In court of law, key anti-gay voice tosses us into Lake of Fire
Pro-discrimination groups like the National Organization For Marriage love to push the "research" of Canadian economist Douglas Allen. In fact, NOM's former associate, the Ruth Institute, lists Allen as one of its "circle of experts."
This is Doug Allen:
Michigan’s gay marriage trial ended on an explosive note today, with the state’s final witness saying he believes unrepentant homosexuals are going to hell.
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“Is it accurate that you believe the consequence of engaging in homosexual acts is a...
March 6, 2014
NOM still damaging GOP brand with discriminatory, losing marriage fight #CPAC2014
Even as GOP pragmatists start moving away from a fight that they know is over for them, the National Organization For Marriage, which gets the totality of its lifeblood from convincing Americans that marriage equality can and should be stopped, is still showing up at events and telling conservatives that the "protect marriage" fight is a good thing for the Republican party to embrace:
Say hello, NOM? Don't you mean goodbye?
FRC prays against Mitt Romney, John McCain, Jan Brewer, Jeff Flake, any other conservative who 'militantly denies God's natural order'
It's weird, I listened to Family Research Council on all sorts of cable news shows, talking about Arizona on each one, and never once did I hear them talking about "natural order and eternal law" or praying against "dark deception." Nor did they admit that their true war was against the idea "that sinful sexual behavior is an expression of love." And yet when they go on their own websites and speak to the base that they need in order to keep the lights on, they suddenly find their words:
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