Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 179
November 22, 2013
What is 'CanaVox'?
Doug Mainwaring, the professional "ex-gay" who has testified against several state marriage bills, written numerous commentaries denouncing equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, filed an amicus brief in support of Prop 8, and has signed up as a poster boy for many National Organization For Marriage causes (including speaking at last March's so-called "march for marriage"), is apparently launching a new project with Robert George's Witherspoon Institute. At the end of Mainwaring's latest...
FRC: It's anti-gay conservatives who need ENDA
After claiming that the scrutiny coming down on Mike Rosebush, an Air Force Academy counselor who pushes the dangerous and scientifically discredited practice of "curing" gay people, is an example of why LGBT cannot have federal employment protections, the Family Research Council (in words loosely attributable to president Tony Perkins) proceeds to claim the following:
Obviously, if anyone needs an ENDA, it's conservatives -- not those who, for the last five years, have had their way under Pre...
Four score and seven years ago, [we vowed to 'drive a wedge between gays and blacks']
When one thinks of modern-day groups that might fittingly parallel the life and cause of President Abraham Lincoln, does a pro-discrimination organization that vowed to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks" jump to your mind? Well, according to the National Organization For Marriage's latest plea for cash (the ten billionth one this month, I'm pretty sure), that is, in fact, the historical connection you should be making.
Words attributed to NOM prez Brian Brown:
Dear Marriage Supporter,
This...
Video: Basically, the exceedingly anti-gay Focus on the Family is like a modern-day Mayflower
They are the Pilgrims, insist staffers at an organization that spends a large bulk of its time fighting LGBT people's basic rights and well-being:
Well, they do seem to want to take full ownership of this land for themselves. So maybe.
November 21, 2013
Indiana GOP gearing up to stain state's history, lose future elections
While open to possibly taking out language that also bans civil unions, Republicans in the Indiana legislature are vowing to further connect their party to the wrong side of the marriage issue:
Despite calls from Democrat legislative leaders to shelve the divisive constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, top Republicans said Tuesday the legislature should work its will on the proposal — and possibly tweak it.
KEEP READING: GOP ponders tweak in same-sex marriage ban [Indy Star]
Passing a marriage...
FRC 'prayer targets': Another week, another attempt to frame LGBT well-being, equality as 'evil'
After running down an obsessive list in which their beef with four of the six states is something having to do with LGBT people, our rights, and our basic well-being, the Family Research Council is taking yet another opportunity to brand these policy pushes as "evil":
[FRC Prayer Targets]
(Note: The VA one is LGBT-specific, even though they don't come right out and say it)
One gets the sense that they added the NY and WI stuff at the front as back as padding meant to hide what this, in fact, is:...
November 20, 2013
Springfield Bishop totally not demonizing gays; now here, let him tell you all the ways the devil's involved in our marriages
I already told you about the "exorcism" that Springfield, IL, Bishop Thomas Paprocki held today at the same time that Governor Pat Quinn was signing marriage equality into law in the Land of Lincoln. Here now, a snip from his homily:
Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical influences of the devil that have penetrated our culture, both in the state and in the Church. These demonic influences are not readily ap...
