Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 157
February 7, 2014
While NOM's prez talks about religious recognition of marriage, can the rest of us move on and settle the civil marriage question?
The National Organization For Marriage's president is so wrapped up in his own faithful motivations that he cannot understand that our fight is one for *CIVIL* marriage equality. In his egocentric view, we equality advocates must also be following some sort of "orthodoxy" and employing "dogmatism" when we tell him, from our multi and varied perspectives, that he doesn't have the right to use his personal religion to deny civil marriage licenses:
"You see, this radical agenda is its own kind of...
Liberty Counsel's Staver pits being black, gay against being qualified
Usually Mat Staver and his allies at the American Family Association's One News Now site at least try to drum up some supposedly outlandish thing that a judicial nominee said or did fro the bench. In this case, however, Staver and his buddies are simply positioning race and sexual orientation against judicial qualification:
President Obama has submitted a list of five nominees for federal judge posts, and a constitutional law expert suggests America will pay a price.
Among the nominees are fou...
21st century's preeminent 'gay propaganda' singing duo to open games marred by 'gay propaganda' controversy
One of the stranger developments from these crazy controversial Olympics:
MOSCOW—The opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics on Friday will feature floating cathedral domes, giant magic horses, and the music of a Russian pop duo that built its image around being lesbian.
T.a.T.u., Pop Duo with Lesbian Image, Set to Play Opening of Winter Olympics [WSJ]
I swear I'm beginning to think this whole anti-gay controversy is a covert attempt by stealth equality activist Putin to make a case against glob...
February 6, 2014
Google goes Pride colors to honor Olympics, inclusion
With the opening ceremonies just hours away, Google changed its homepage to look like this:
Powerful!! Like truly. This is a pretty huge move.
And once again, I dare the anti-LGBT activists to boycott this company.
**Oh, and yes, it's on the Russian site as well
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Transferring 'Roe' to unrelated row; hoping to 'Wade' way off sinking ship
Social conservatives are desperate to make the marriage fight seem like the new Roe. They need it to be so that they can talk about (and profit from) it for years and years to come.
Here's the newest effort to say that the desire to marry the love of your life is just like the choice to end a pregnancy:
The redefinition of marriage and the abortion license flow from the same cultural lie: That the individual, but not the family, is of basic social and moral value. That personal adult fulfillme...
'Ex-gay' supportive talking points: Now with even more rape, murder!
After seeing Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg promoting it on Twitter, I finally clicked on Janet Tassel's American Thinker piece about "ex-gay" therapy and its repudiation. These are the kinds of comparisons that social conservatives apparently think are worth promoting:
The bullies at the Southern Poverty Law Center are merely reflecting the standard liberal trope: Murderers, rapists, and other criminals are formed by society and can be helped by psyc...
Beelzebub the wedding planner: Franklin Graham says Satan is behind marriage equality
In a column about the recent Duck Dynasty fiasco, Billy Graham's son Franklin has revealed who, exactly, is behind gay people's right to marry. Spoiler alert: He's red with pointy ears and a penchant for arid climates.
This is a full-scale assault against Christianity and the followers of Christ. When prayer is banned from the public square, when our President fails to defend biblically defined marriage, and he openly and zealously advocates for gay rights; when legislators rush to overrule ex...
February 5, 2014
Audio: Tony Perkins attacks show he's clearly never seen, families he's likely never met
As RightWingWatch aptly notes:
"[Tony] Perkins seems to have been so blinded by outrage in watching the show that he missed the fact that it is Charlie’s friend, and not Charlie herself, who has same-sex parents. And that Charlie is a girl."
Now listen to the misguided outrage for yourself:
[RWW]
Misidentification and misgendering aside, it's truly disgusting how Tony ends with the "he's [sic] gonna need luck" threat. Have these folks no decency? We're talking about a minor. A child. Even if thes...
Audio: (DC based) NOM teams with (CO based) Focus on the Family in support of IN discrimination
The National Organization For Marriage and Focus on the Family's political action arm (CitizenLink) have teamed up to bully yet another local lawmaker for voting in a way with which they do not agree. And with this one, we get the triumphant return of "San Francisco–style marriage":
If the voiceover announcer sounds familiar, it might be because you remember Focus on the Family's Stuart Shepard from that infamous 2008 video where he prayed that it would rain out Barack Obama's Democratic Conve...
