Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 148
March 3, 2014
THIS--->'All he is offering us is mainly his opinions'
This is one of my favorite developments in recent culture war memory:
In a bombshell development, a federal judge just threw out the state’s first witness in Michigan’s gay marriage trial, concluding the Princeton-educated philosophy expert [Sherif Girgis] had nothing to offer in this case.
“He’s very eloquent … but right now, all he is offering to us is mainly his opinions,” U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman said of the witness. “The court does not believe ... that he should be allowed to t...
Video: Pat Buchanan longs for when you could refuse rooms 'to a couple of homosexuals'
Rant about "overthrowing society" from its pre-1950s state is cued to right place; comments about homosexuality come around 3:30:
Relax, P.B. Smoke a joint, maybe?
'Values' conservatives gearing up to again promote public school truancy
It's that time of the year again: time when some of the most anti-LGBT organizations out there....
...will tell parents to keep their children home from school so that they don't encounter the anti-bullying effort known as the Day Of Silence (April 11). Illinois Family Institute's Laurie Higgins writes:
Keeping their children home on the Day of Silence is an easy, safe way for parents to express to school administrations, faculty, and school boards that they—parents—oppose the promotion of non-...
Group that failed to make trans students more vulnerable at school compares CA government to Stalin's Russia
Months before their failure to advance their anti-trans measure was confirmed, the grossly misnamed "Privacy For All Students" coalition was laying groundwork for what they would say after they lost. Their overall tone, then: the CA government is against us, and we would've been on the 2014 ballot otherwise.
Over the weekend, the org took the post-loss spin up a notch, equating CA officials with Stalin:
[PFAS]
Is it really so hard to believe that this coalition would come up with so many invalid...
Arizona anti-gays don't realize why they lost
The Center For Arizona Policy, the "ex-gay"-promoting organization most fully behind the recently-vetoed license-to-discriminate bill, wrote the following postmortem:
One of the immediate benefits from this experience is that our friends across the country are waking up to the very real threats to religious freedom and what’s happening in Arizona. There have been some interesting posts across the web throughout this situation that clearly show the country is waking up to religious hostility.
Be...
February 27, 2014
Heritage Foundation's Anderson: I know several gay people opposed to own equality
Despite admitting in his college newspaper that gay people have a calling to be "chaste," Heritage Foundation staffer Ryan T. Anderson says he has "several" gay friends in his personal life (don't all social conservatives)? And even though those of us who are gay and genuinely do spend a lot of time around LGBT people rarely come across even one living, breathing gay person who is against his or her own civil equality, it just so happens that Ryan is fortunate enough to have met the "several"...
FRC will never stop branding marriage equality activists as 'evil'
After running down the writing on the wall regarding the many losses and likely losses on the marriage horizon, the Family Research Council once again instructs its supports to pray against "evil" same-sex marriages and those of us who support them (i.e. a majority of Americans):
EEEEEEEEEVVVVIILLLLLL!!!
I'd seriously like to spend two minutes living inside the horror movie that apparently plays out in FRC staffers' heads.
No, NOM—your carefully spun stories are the same; the bigger story is peaceful
Reacting to Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of Arizona's license-to-discriminate bill, the National Organization for [clearly more than just] Marriage [Discrimination] wrote the following:
Wherever marriage is redefined, the story is the same: florists, photographers, bakers, caterers, social hall owners—anyone who runs a business that caters to the celebration of nuptials—these individuals are forced to choose between their deeply held beliefs about marriage and the prospect of being forced out of bus...
CNN hosts Peter Sprigg twice in as many hours
Yesterday, as social conservatives struggled to persuade America that the now-dead Arizona law wasn't really discriminatory, CNN chose an interesting pundit for two key on-air slots. They chose a man who sits on the board of PFOX, an organization that is solely focused on "changing" gay people. They chose a man who once admitted that he'd "prefer to export homosexuals from the United States." They chose a man who, on another network, admitted that he'd like to impose criminal sanctions on "ga...
