Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 17
April 29, 2015
NOM: We're broke and need money before you see no reason to ever give to us again
The National Organization For Marriage, an organization that knows empty gasps of wind if ever there was one, is telling supporters that "a fresh breeze" is blowing favor to their cause. However, to sustain this gust of fiction wind, NOM is also telling supporters they must re-fill NOM's depleted coffers between now and the time SCOTUS issues its sure-to-be-historic ruling. For obvious reasons:
You see, the Supreme Court is expected to issue their decision in Obergefell v Hodges — the case...
The particularly strange regression in yesterday's #SCOTUS hearing
Having worked in and around, and commented on, the anti-LGBT versus LGBT "culture war" for over a decade, I've gone through many days when a tussle over my civil rights felt deeply offensive. Whether it's a legislative debate, public referendum, judicial hearing, political conference, or some other event where my family and our rights as American citizens are discussed as if they are frills to be decided by committee, at best, and threats to be derided as satanic, at the more familiar end, I...
April 28, 2015
About Chief Justice Roberts' 'closing of debate can close minds' line
I've seen several different pro-discrimination activists cite the following comment from Chief Justice John Roberts as being something they can hold out as a sign of hope. Speaking to the pro-equality side (and attorney Mary Bonauto specifically), CJ Roberts said:
"...but if you prevail here, there will be no more debate. I mean, closing of debate can close minds, and it will have a consequence on how this new institution is accepted. People feel very differently about something if they hav...
Video: Outside #SCOTUS, Tony Perkins says gay couples 'violate laws of nature and nature's God'
Most of his speech is about those handful of fake "victims" who chose to discriminate in their business practices and who have faced consequence for doing so. But the rest is all about how people like me and families like mine supposedly violate and offend God. Because that's what Tony Perkins and his movement are all about, no matter what their pragmatic lawyers say in court:
Rick Santorum wins the Award for most childish #StandForMarriage rhetoric
This is more the rhetoric of a petulant toddler than someone who wants to the President of these United States
Non sequitur much? His attempt to link the civil rights of loving families with wholly unrelated domestic and foreign policy debates shows just how political this whole thing is for him. He doesn't see us as citizens or our bonds as worthy. We are nothing more than something off which he can pander on Fox News or fundraise in his sunup to yet another failed prima...
April 27, 2015
FRC launches new site: 'Freedom' to discriminate against LGBT people, so long as you say 'my religion'
And now here's the latest project from anti-LGBT animus group Family Research Council. It's a roundup of many names you know for the sole reason that they wanted to forcefully oppose LGBT people without repercussion, speak out against what they call our "lifestyles" without any response, or (most commonly) flout proper law as it applies to LGBT people and our nondiscrimination. "Free to Believe," FRC disingenuously calls it:
Believe away, FRC. It's when you bel...
Own worst enemies: Anti-gay activists make opening statements on SCOTUS steps
Right Wing Watch brings us these last gasps from a movement that is speeding toward irrelevancy:
Video: Media outlet that primarily backs anti-equality Republicans faults pro-equality Democrat for listening, learning, growing
Considering Washington Examiner's conservative bent, it's clear they mean this to be a hit piece. What it really is instead? An example of an American who listened and learned and moved toward the right stance:
It's hilarious to me when people who still—and steadfastly—oppose marriage equality fault those who evolved on it. Yes, those of us who have long supported it wish our allies had always been with us. Obviously. But the reality is that very few Americans were fully with us a decade...
