Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 177

Photo: Anita Bryant out of exile, posing with Marie Osmond

Something tells me that Osmond, a professed equality ally with a lesbian daughter, might regret this post:

Marie Osmond [Instagram]

(h/t: Dave Evans)

Sure, they have a shared history. Bryant first sang "Paper Roses;" Osmond made it famous. I get it.

But still, we're talking about Anita Bryant. ANITA gays-recruit-children-so-let-me-campaign-against-them-throughout-the-seventies BRYANT! She isn't just some fellow guest star on a modern version of The Love Boat, with whom Osmond can wax nostalgic ab...

Wholly undeserving NOM butts its way into 'Giving Tuesday'

The 92nd Street Y, a progressive organization based in NYC, started the do-gooder idea known as "Giving Tuesday." NOM, a discriminatory organization based in myth, is determined to kill its spirit:

[NOM's latest beg for cash]

I take it back, people who trampled each other on Black Friday in order to dupe their credit cards into believing the half-a-shekel savings were going to make the payments somehow easier—yours was not the past seven days' biggest waste of time and cash after all.

No word on...

In fury to attack gay moms and dads, anti-gay group continues to demean single parents

After ten weeks of being a parent with an equally dedicated spouse, this writer has come to one conclusion: Single parents perform a nearly impossible act.

Parenting is a 24/7 job, with a level of commitment far exceeding anything I have ever known. I cannot imagine how hard it must be to go it alone.

Yet amazing single parents rise to the challenge on a daily basis, bringing up awesome kids with all the right gifts. Like all dedicated parents, they deserve our respect. They certainly don't de...

Org. that's rooted in a mistake knocks writer who made a simple one

Edward Graham is a journalist who writes words for money. I'm pretty sure he knows the difference between "your" and "you're."

But leave it to the reliably reductive PFOX (Parents and Friends of "Ex-gays") organization to take an obvious typo and turn it into a whole campaign. In response to an email that Mr. Graham, a writer with the National Education Association's NEA Today publication, sent the anti-scientific, highly offensive, deservedly discredited organization in which he requested tha...

NOM now comparing same-sex marriages to oblong tomatoes, mythical lake monsters

While many of us were gearing up to spend time with families that proudly embrace their LGBT relatives, the National Organization For Marriage spent Thanksgiving week working to convince America that gay cousin Charlie and his new husband Marc are really the social equivalent of misnamed vegetables and Scottish lake monsters. I'm not even kidding.

In one Facebook post, the organization the desperately pushes graphic memes that never end up going anywhere created this little image purporting...

Video: Rabidly anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom hopes to convince donors it is right, effective, winning — 2013 edition

It's year-end time, which means groups must put together highlight reels that insist the past year of donor-funded work was all worth it. Here is the 2013 ask of the ADF, the org that heads up most every legal challenge against LGBT civil rights:

I love how they act like the historic Supreme Court rulings on marriage just kind of happened. In truth, the ADF was at the forefront of these battles, hoping to prove in court that their arguments against marriage equality are both right and effectiv...

Video: Obviously bright young man backs obviously right view of marriage

His home state of Oregon has yet to obtain equal marriage rights. If brave, awesome, and wise Duncan McAlpine Sennett has his way, that will soon change.

When called to the Torah, young man Duncan makes the call for full equal rights:

He who makes $200k+ annual salary discriminating against certain Americans calls equality movement 'anti-American,' 'bullies'

Some of us have made well over a million dollars fighting against the civil rights of certain kinds of American taxpayers, as we work amid a movement filled with incendiary voices who are out to tell our fellow citizens that specific forms of discrimination are fine, good, and even necessary. The rest of us are "anti-American," "radical," and make up a "bullying behemoth":

"When history looks back on the 2012-2013 legislative year, I believe it will be remembered as the year Americans realized...

Olympic diver Tom Daley is 'dating a guy,' 'couldn't be happier'

He's taking the plunge in a really direct and classy way:

Courts of law, politic, public opinion vs. Court of LaBarbera

Professional foe of the 'mos Peter LaBarbera will never, ever, ever, ever, ever accept a same-sex couple's ciivl marriage:

"Even if the numbers do increase, for Christians, the reality is this is not marriage," says Pater LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.



"It has nothing to do with our Judeo-Christian tradition," he adds, "so this is not marriage and we cannot pretend that this is marriage."

FULL: More homosexual 'marriages' does not more marriages make [ONN]

Peter them dramat...