Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 156
February 11, 2014
Sandy Rios says equality activists 'literally' want to destroy America; I say anti-equality activists literally want to destroy my hyperbole sensor
A longtime conservative activist puts it all in perspective:
"This is a fight over the survival of the country...This is a war between people who love this country and want to protect and preserve it and their children and future generations, and those who literally want to undermine and destroy its laws, its nature, [and to] fundamentally transform it."
—American Family Radio host Sandy Rios
Personally, I don't even want to figuratively destroy America. But literally, Sandy?
I'm not even sure wh...
February 10, 2014
Nevada AG, Gov get jump on inevitable; won't waste time defending discrimination in court
Citing a recent 9th Circuit ruling that said jurors can't be removed from a trial because of sexual orientation, Nevada's Democratic attorney general and Republican governor have both dropped defense of the state's discriminatory ban on same-sex marriage:
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's attorney general and governor said Monday that they won't defend the state's gay marriage ban when it goes before a federal appeals court, saying that a recent court decision makes the state's arguments suppo...
First signs from Indiana pro-discrimination demo: Shocker, they pit 'God's word' against civil marriage discussion #hjr3
This is one of the signs that multiple people demonstrating at the Indiana statehouse are waving to show their support for civil marriage inequality:
[sent to us by a reader]
Ooh, three exclamation points! Too bad for the anti-equality crowd that the extra punctuation doesn't add one iota of strength to their arguments, seeing as how we are talking about the civil marriage license and not the always ancillary, variantly interpreted, in-no-way-threatened, often gay-inclusive component known as t...
Startlingly desperate NOM tries to co-opt 'Dumb Starbucks'
You know how the pro-discrimination group known as the National Organization For Marriage has spent the past two years on an hysterically failed mission to persuade Americans to drop Starbucks simply because the coffee giant supports marriage equality? Well get this: NOM is now trying to jump on that weird "Dumb Starbucks" story that hit the news this weekend, in hopes that the biased set can caffeinate their sluggish (at best) boycott:
While it probably isn't what the founders of the new shop...
Robert Oscar Lopez parlays Woody Allen's heterosexual behavior into attack on gay parents
Robert Oscar Lopez, the suddenly omnipresent "protect marriage" speaker who's quite fond of equating same-sex parents with slave owners, is now using an acclaimed filmmakers thoroughly heterosexual activities (and allegations involving the same) to suggest that gay people make for bad parents. So gross:
From the atrocious seduction of his adopted daughter from South Korea to these bombshell charges regarding Mia Farrow's daughter, Woody Allen exemplifies why we cannot rely upon the popularity...
Massachusetts anti-LGBT group: Pro-LGBT teachers are 'truly bad' (/evil)
In a missive where they beg for donations so that they can wage a full-on onslaught against inclusive teaching, the MassResistance organization lays the following charge upon any public school official who pushes for basic LGBT acceptance:
For two decades we've been helping parents deal with schools and public officials in reaction to the kinds of things listed above (and worse). After seeing it up close for that long, we've concluded that the teachers and school officials (and politicians) do...
Indiana's pro-discrimination group: Act now to make life harder for certain kinds of kids!
This is a fear graphic that Indiana's pro-discrimination group, the Indiana Family Institute, is using to rally its troops in support of a nasty marriage amendment:
[IFI]
Hey, your printer must have accidentally added some erroneous words, IFI. Clearly you meant to say forsakes Indiana's kids, since that's what discrimination always does.
Please correct the error before the big pro-bias rally that you're hosting in the statehouse.
February 9, 2014
Report: Openly talented football player says he happens to be gay; could be NFL's long overdue barrier-breaker
During an Olympics season, it's hard for another sports story to overshadow the games. This might just do it:
Michael Sam, who played for the University of Missouri and is expected to be chosen early in the N.F.L. draft, could become the league’s first openly gay player.
College Football Star Michael Sam Says He Is Gay; May Become First Publicly Gay Player in N.F.L. [NY Times ]
Which social conservative will be the first to lash out? After all, when it comes to men in tights piling up on top of...
