Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 174

Sen Mike Lee (R) to waste more time, resources, potential for national unity on unnecessary anti-LGBT bill

Marriage equality activists will be the first to tell you that we are not asking, seeking, or forcing churches to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. Our fight is about CIVIL marriage equality. Churches and individual faith leader are free to make these determinations for themselves, just as they always have with opposite-sex unions that some might find objectionable (e.g. interfaith, non-faith, prior divorce, child out of wedlock, etc.).

But leave it to House Republicans to waste more time...

Read: Anti-gay coalition sends SPLC-bashing letter to Secretary Hagel

When it comes to a movement that hates nothing more than its own rhetoric presented back to it and its water-carriers, there are no bigger enemies than those of us who bring more light to their extreme views. Which is why these folks hate GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project, bloggers who track their work, sites like RightWingWatch—and particularly the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In a new letter that some of the most anti-LGBT voices in the nation (Bauer! Staver! Boykin!) have sent to D...

AFA's star spokesman: We need a Supreme Court that will criminalize gays

Bryan Fischer is a big fan of criminalizing gay people—that is not news. But with the Supreme Court of India's chilling decision to uphold an ancient ban on homosexuality, the American Family Association's biggest star feels emboldened to admit his true desires:

Of course what we actually have is a U.S. Supreme Court that, while decidedly conservative, still strikes down sodomy bans and invalidates federal laws limiting marriage equality. That's where we are; that's where we're headed. Because...

Shorter Focus on the Family: 'We support nondiscrimination laws that help or (or that we know we must)'

After running down a list of reasons why that discriminatory cake baker in Colorado supposedly wasn't discriminating when he turned away a same-sex couple (e.g. "he said he would've baked them cookies"), Focus on the Family's Bruce Hausknecht explains that Focus on the Family does, in fact, support nondiscrimination laws—so long as they were passed in the sixties and are now seen as closed debates. Clip is cued:

Oh, Bruce—is it that the nature of nondiscrimination law has changed, or is just t...

For those scout leaders with discriminating taste in literature

Big news: Trail Life USA, the Boy Scouts alternative that was launched for the sole (and proudly stated) purpose of excluding gay scouts/leaders has finalized its program guides, both for the youngsters and their troop leaders:

[Anti-Gay Boy Scouts]

Not sure about ink, font, or binding. Although I do hear that both editions are printed on the wrong side of history.

Fiction writers working under collective pseudonym of 'NOM' again begging for fantasy tales' undeserved subsidization

The National Organization For Marriage tried (and tried hard) to get a Republican elected to the Oval Office. NOM failed (and failed hard).

But that doesn't stop NOM prez Brian Brown from writing nonsense like this:

We know from watching the disastrous actions of the Obama Administration as they dismantle and redefine core pillars of society like marriage and religious liberty that elections have consequences.



When the wrong people are elected to high office, they end up doing harm to our nation...

And yet he finds gays unnatural?

LGBT people, who have existed throughout history, in every society, and throughout the animal kingdom, are his professional bone of contention. He has spent decades fighting against us, dedicating every shred of his professional energy toward framing LGBT folks as wrong, immoral, and unnatural.

And yet hurling through the air in a flying bus while telecommunicating through the clouds? Totally cool:

You know what allowed that "neat" thing to happen, Pete? Progress. Innovation. Understanding that...

Discriminatory cake baker posts editorial on bakery's website; goes after 'illegal' weddings that are 'contrary to biblical teachings'

Jack Phillips is the latest of the far-right's fake "victims" to lose in his bid to wantonly and willfully discriminate against a same-sex couple seeking his services. But rather than stagy quiet while lawyers sort out his situation, Mr. Phillips is apparently running head-first into his admitted desire to discriminate. Someone posted this unsigned editorial to Masterpiece Cakes' official website, coupled with a call for customers to sign a petition in support of his view that same-sex marria...

Adorably wacky email goes after gays, pro-woman 'vaginas,' Madonna

This might be the best piece of hostile mail I've ever received:

Eh, this sounds about as convincing as any of the baker-defending arguments I've heard from the anti-LGBT organizations.

Anti-gay Manhattan Declaration hijacks The Civil Rights Movement; snips LBJ's anti-discrimination speech, makes it pro-

This is what President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) really said:

Perhaps most important--its influence radiating to every part of life--is the breakdown of the Negro family structure. For this, most of all, white America must accept responsibility. It flows from centuries of oppression and persecution of the Negro man. It flows from the long years of degradation and discrimination, which have attacked his dignity and assaulted his ability to produce for his family.



This, too, is not pleasant to look u...