Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 175
December 9, 2013
Robert Knight: 'Peter [LaBarbera] is today's Paul Revere
Paul Revere famously warned Colonial soldiers of impending battle that would ultimately involve bloodshed and death. According to conservative activist Robert Knight (who has worked with just about every leading anti-LGBT org and himself helped draft DOMA), the fitting parallel for our times is professional anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera:
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Gives a whole new meaning to "the British are coming" ::ahem::
Bryan Fischer's latest 'logic': LGBT nondiscrimination = 'secular theocracy'
Bryan Fischer just can't escape religious terminology:
"Dogma"? "Theocracy"? "Heretic"? "The Inquisition"?
Bryan uses the allusions (/illusions) because he and his movement have wrapped their entire viewpoint in the shroud of the New Testament. He cannot (or will not) accept that those of us who argue for nondiscrimination laws that prevent business owners from turning away gay customers at whim and will are actually operating on the basis of civil (/secular) law, independent of our personal f...
DEAR AMY: If the Grinch wants to steal my sexual orientation, should I give in to his reindeer games?
If you've read my book, you know that the holidays were the backdrop for my own line in the sand between family erasure and family acceptance. But I'm far from alone in that scene, with the heightened yuletide environment and its kin-heavy vibe setting the stage for many an LGBT person's own debate about what he or she is willing to accept.
The syndicated "Ask Amy" column is taking on that topic:
DEAR AMY: When I was 14 I came out as gay to my parents. We lived in a small town in the South. I w...
DEAR AMY: If the Grinch wants to steal my sexual orientation, should I give in to his reindeer games?
If you've read my book, you know that the holidays were the backdrop for my own line in the sand between family erasure and family acceptance. But I'm far from alone in that scene, with the heightened yuletide environment and its kin-heavy vibe setting the stage for many an LGBT person's own debate about what he or she is willing to accept.
The syndicated "Ask Amy" column is taking on that topic:
DEAR AMY: When I was 14 I came out as gay to my parents. We lived in a small town in the South. I w...
The Ruth Institute: Photographing a same-sex marriage like tattooing a swastika
The latest from the Ruth Institute, a former affiliate of the National Organization For Marriage:
This from the same organization that recently equated same-sex marriage with slavery.
Because Christian love, ya know?
Protecting vulnerable people from discrimination makes you non-Christian?
In a new ad that's drummed up lots of attention over the past week, Democratic U.S Senator Mark Pryor (AR) professes to be a bible-believing Christian for whom God is "my compass, my North Star." Yet this simply cannot be so, asserts the anti-LGBT movement's Andrea Lafferty, since Pryor voted in favor of a law that would strengthen workplace protections pertaining to LGBT people:
"I was outraged when I saw this [ad] because that is the furthest thing from the truth," says Lafferty, noting that...
December 6, 2013
Louisiana: Republican state senator refers to Tony Perkins as 'extremist' associated with hate group
As you may or may not know, rabidly anti-LGBT figure Tony Perkins is considering seeking a U.S. House seat that is opening up in his home state of Louisiana. If he were to move forward, this would obviously lead people like me to step up and point out just how extreme Tony Perkins really is. But get this funniness: a fellow local Republican who is seeking the same seat is going ahead and doing the job for me:
Referencing [Tony] Perkins' rumored intentions, [State Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Roug...
Yet another Alliance Defending Freedom defendant all like, 'but, but—you said we're the victims!'
Once again, a judge is telling the far right's fake "victims" what we all told them long ago: that you can't just discriminate against gay couples because you and your personal faith beliefs feel like it. The ACLU brings the good word:
A Colorado judge today determined that the Masterpiece CakeShop unlawfully discriminated against [a same-sex couple] by refusing to sell them a wedding cake.
David Mullins and Charlie Craig visited Masterpiece Cakeshop last year, with Craig's mother, to order a c...
Video: ESPN's Chris Broussard doubles down on saying Jason Collins is in 'open rebellion to God'; 'I don't have a problem with the way I articulated it'
ESPN commentator Chris Broussard made national headlines when he claimed that openly gay basketball player Jason Collins is living "in open rebellion to God." Now listen to him continue to claim he simply "disagrees" with Collins and that his condemnation is simply "diversity of opinion":
It's so annoying the way that one host claims (around 7:14) that people were trying to shut down Broussard's opinion. No! Did someone shut Broussard's mic? Did a government body prevent his TV appearance from...
