Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 167
January 6, 2014
Audio: My civil marriage destroys anti-gay people's religious freedom (*but not their self-centeredness, apparently)
Pastor Jim Garlow, longtime practitioner of the faith-guided discriminatory arts, is back to make more claims about what certain America taxpayers' civil marriage supposedly do to people like him, the apparent owners of America. Clip comes from David Barton's reliably absurd WallBuilders show:
I love how it's always a warning that they set apart from their present day actions. "They're gonna treat us like [insert bad thing]," as if (a) any movement has the power to ascribe an undeserved brandi...
Silly anti-gay claim of the minute: Robin Roberts' coming out was some sort of 'Duck' hunt
It's often stunning to hear the way far-right figures talk about our lives. To hear them tell it, we do not make a move without first consulting, if not colluding with, a whole host of advocacy groups, thought leaders, and even presidential administrations. Our every move, they seem to believe, is a carefully orchestrated act.
Latest case in point: Mark Creech, an anti-gay pastor who has spent years saying and doing anti-gay things from his perch in North Carolina, is now claiming that Good Mo...
Utah chill: SCOTUS puts basic rights, freedoms, protections on (temporary) ice
I feel bad for the loving couples who expected to wed but now must wait:
Breaking: High court puts same-sex marriage on hold in Utah [CNN]
Then again, delayed inevitability is pretty much the subtitle of our movement. Waiting is as common to us as is fear-mongering, fake victims, and groups that openly flout our nation's crucial church and state separations.
But as with all of these fights, we will ultimately prevail. I expect groups like NOM to applaud this SCOTUS move, but any attempt to confl...
Report: Nation's most discriminatory groups are strategizing how to keep GOP a throughly anti-LGBT party
Politico is reporting on a swanky conference that some of American's most pro-discrimination organizations recently held at a DC area Ritz Carlton, in hopes of swaying the 2014 elections with their anti-equality cash. A snip:
Plans in the works range from aggressive super PAC spending in primaries against Republicans deemed squishy on social issues, to holding a donor conference in Normandy, France, tied to the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
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The roughly 25 socially conservative grou...
January 5, 2014
Man who made name by getting sweaty with other shirtless men takes swipe at homosexuality
Comparing gay people to people who are born with disabilities affecting their legs, former boxing champion Evander Holyfield took to British reality TV over the weekend and declared homosexuality to be abnormal:
'Gay ain't normal' Holyfield warned [Press Association via Yahoo!]
Eh, I think punching other people in the face is a pretty odd thing to do. We all have opinions.
The show, Celebrity Big Brother, warned Holyfield about his language, and some viewers have called for him to be removed fro...
Really, NOM? Because you're looking kind of stalled (if not finished)
The National Organization For Marriage's latest attempt at a meme:
[NOM]
What they don't show you is that this guy is running backwards while all of his opponents are rapidly marching forward.
January 3, 2014
Anti-gay Utahn denies wedding cake to us, self
Well this will show us:
Trestin Meacham, a 35-year-old former Constitution Party candidate for the Utah State Senate, says he is fasting to stop same-sex marriage in Utah.
Desperate Utahn Vows To Starve Self Until Gays Can No Longer Marry [Bilerico]
Mr. Meacham, who claims to have not eaten in nearly two weeks, wants the state to use a non-starter of a process known as "nullification" to put a full stop on the marriages that are happening 
even as we speak (/eat). He's denying himself in order to...
Mad at his repeated failure to stop equality in his state, IA's head anti-gay continues 'unnatural' ranting
In a new interview, Iowa's most prominent anti-LGBT activist (and good buddy of Mike Huckabee's) Bob Vander Plaats claimed that civil marriage "goes against the law of nature, and the law of nature’s God, which means, again, it’s against the Constitution":
Vander Plaats: Marriage Equality Unconstitutional Because It's 'Against The Law of Nature' [RWW]
Forget outrage. I mean, this is a man who has proudly claimed homosexuality as a public health risk. There isn't much he could say that would mak...
January 2, 2014
TAKE ACTION: Use NOM's Indiana call/email sheet and ask for the opposite
NOM has handily assembled a list of Indiana lawmakers who may be movable on whether or not to inscribe discrimination in their state's constitution. Use it to instead call for equality:
NOM's Indiana Call Sheet: Do the opposite
Thanks for doing the grunt work, NOM! We owe you one. How's about we take all that we handed you in 2013 and double it?
