Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 187
November 4, 2013
BREAKING: U.S. Senate advances ENDA!!
By a vote of 61–30, the U.S. Senate has invoked cloture on the Employment NonDiscrimination Act!! Historic!!
The final Senate vote could come this week. More to come.
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**VOTE NOTE: Seven Republicans (Ayotte, Collins, Kirk, Hatch, Heller, Portman & Toomey) joined the Democrats
Video: AFA spokesman equates all LGBT people with Jerry Sandusky
This is what passes for rational commentary on the side opposed to the Employment NonDiscrimination Act. Clip is cued:
Video: NOM finds another way to take a donor-funded vacation
Remember that series of Brady Bunch episodes where the family goes to Hawaii, where Bobby's tiki idol causes a whole host of horribles (tarantula! surfing accident! bad perms!) befall the brood? Yeah, well—consider this the National Org. For Marriage's version of that televised vacay. Chairman John Eastman is playing the role of Mike, Hawaiian shirt and all, and we gays are the Pandora's Box that will soon destroy families, Brady and otherwise:
So short. Yet somehow still too long...
POTUS reminds Congress that wantonly firing people because of who they are is a bad thing
With our so many advancements, it's easy to forget how great it is to have a President who says things like this:
"America is at a turning point. We're not only becoming more accepting and loving as a people, we're becoming more just as a nation. But we still have a way to go before our laws are equal to our Founding ideals. As I said in my second inaugural address, our nation's journey toward equality isn't complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law...
FRC tells a truly hysterical joke
The biggest guffaw you will have all day:
[Family Research Council, while telling why the org. wants to discriminate against LGBT workers]
I better step away now before this comedy club imposes a two drink minimum.
KY Baptist org. realizes Uncle Sam's ATM access code is 'E-Q-U-A-L'
Here's a very interesting story out of Kentucky that's stirring up all kinds of consternation among southern evangelicals. Basically, a Southern Baptist children's services agency is admitting that, soon enough, it's going to have to change its LGBT-exclusionary employment practices if it wants to keep receiving federal funds. Since the organization does, in fact, want this sort of government subsidization, it's on the cusp of changing its employment policies now, even before the passage of f...
The latest Facebook posts from the National Organization For 'Marriage' (?)
Going after transgender students and their protections in California public schools:
Going after basic employment protections for LGBT workers (and misnaming the bill):
And one more against workplace protections, this time with scary "trojan horse" imagery:
SOURCE FOR ALL: NOM Facebook
Couple this with their ongoing war against same-sex parenting (married or not) and their advocacy on behalf of some of the most undeniably hostile candidates to ever seek office, and I'm thinking we can all drop th...
Because discriminating against your tax-paying neighbor is just so fun
Check out this event announcement that Hawaii's leading anti-LGBT group pushed over the weekend:
It's a fun family outing! Unless, of course, you are out. And have a family. And think equality is fun.
Although these anti-LGBT voices are right about one thing: there will be a wave involved in a few days. It will be guided by their wrists, and it will be directed at the inequality that is finally going to leave the Aloha State.
November 1, 2013
We will never stop lying about Chick-fil-A, vow America's 'values' voices
NOM president Brian Brown:
"Do you remember back to the controversy over Chick-Fil-A's CEO saying that he believed marriage should be the union of one man and one woman? The very thought sparked a furor among homosexual groups and their political allies. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared that Chick-Fil-A would never be allowed to do business in Chicago. All because their CEO supports traditional marriage! [NOM]
Cool theory, Brian. Only thing? It was actually Dan Cathy's claims that we married...
