Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 149
February 26, 2014
BREAKING: Gov. Brewer vetoes Arizona license-to-discriminate bill!
We won. Gov. Brewer delivered a pretty strong rebuke of Senate Bill 1062!
More of these fights to come.
*EARLIER: My piece on what is motivating these bills: These 'license to discriminate' bills: What they're doing and why they're doing it [GLAAD]
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UPDATE: The Governor's full remarks:
SB 1062 – Press Conference
Remarks by Gov. Jan Brewer Good evening, and thank you for joining me here today.
I am here to announce my decision on Senate Bill 1062.
As with every proposal that reaches my desk, I gave...
Everything bigger: TX one state closer to marriage equality
The historic wins never stop coming!
Federal judge voids Texas’ gay marriage ban, though he delays order from taking effect immediately [Dallas Morning News]
AFA's Fischer: Criticism of Uganda's 'jail the gays' law is also a modern version of Jim Crow
It's not just the idea that anti-gay Christians must serve gay people that constitutes a new form of Jim Crow. No, no—according to this AFA senior staffer, criticizing Uganda's shocking law that literally imprisons gay people is also a modern equivalent of the segregated south:
"On an international level, the United States is doing to Uganda what the NFL is trying to do to Arizona, and if anything it’s more insidious because they are doing it to a nation of black people. Our own government is...
Don't be discriminatory and disingenuous, ADF!
In a recent CNN appearance, Alliance Defending Freedom senior vice president Douglas Napier denied that license-to-discriminate laws like the one under scrutiny in Arizona could be used to deny gay customers at restaurants. However, he is flat-out lying, even by his own stated standard.
Read the exchange and then I'll get back to you:
CNN's ERIN BURNETT: I mean, Doug, some people are going to say, look, you are using religion as a shield here. You are saying my religion can't serve gay people....
READ: FRC's three-part plan toward legally divorcing, proudly oppressing LGBT people
First they want to implement a new version of DOMA so that they can stop judges in non-equality states from using the obvious precedents to open up marriage equality. Then they want to completely roll back all marriage equality from the federal level (how "conservative" of them), which would likely, if they had their way, mean legally divorcing the tens of thousands of this nation's legally married same-sex couples. And then they want it clear that the law gives them a special right to use th...
'Militant cadre of radicals'
In the Nation Organization for Marriage's latest, which is one of the most desperate pleas for cash in the organization's nearly seven years of existence, president Brian Brown (/his ghostwriter) has a freshly minted branding for those of us who value love, commitment, family, and equal rights and protections under the law:
[NOM]
No, NOM—you're up against a ticking clock. And eighteenth birthdays. And the public's familiarity with the gay guys next door. And better understanding of civil law an...
So Cathi Herrod, it's just a coincidence that you pushed to 'change' gay people?
If you've been following any of the coverage about Arizona's heinous proposal to allow business owners to essentially turn away LGBT (and other) customers for just about any reason, so long as they cite their faith as the basis, then you've likely seen Center for Arizona Policy director Cathi Herrod. Ms. Herrod has been all over the mainstream media, both in Arizona and nationally, presenting this new license-to-discriminate bill as a "religious freedom" endeavor. Her language is all nice and...
February 25, 2014
Photo: On federal court steps, Michigan's anti-gay side makes its best legal argument
From outside federal court in Detroit, where a hearing on marriage equality began:
No word if their counselors plan to submit God's line as official evidence in these civil law proceedings.
American Family Association senior analyst: Imprisoning gays = 'winnable war'
The biggest liability the American Family Association has ever employed, Bryan Fischer, said the following about Uganda's new law that imprisons gay people:
He's kind of right, in a way. I mean, because people like him did more work destroying the anti-LGBT movement's credibility than we could've done alone, we on the right side of history are quite close to winning this "culture war" once and for all.
I should probably send him a thank you gift or something. A fruit platte...
Video: New propaganda video reminds us that brute hostility is still an American reality, too
Longing for the days when homosexuality was seen as "perversion, a sickness, and even a crime" and using phrases like "brave new world" to address simple acceptance of LGBT people, this newly created video should serve as a reminder that Americans need not look to the furthest reaches of their globes to find public figures who are working to eliminate anything having to do with us, our rights, our acceptance, and our basic peace of mind. Nashville pastor Larry Tomczak created the video becaus...
