Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 188

Ooh, now they've shown us! #il4m

Just some aggressive myopia for your Friday afternoon:

[IFI]

Black border! White text! Bold font! How can we, the millions of loving people who form and sustain relationships involving one man + one man or one woman + one woman ever compete with such lock-solid "proof" of our illegitimacy?

Oh, I know: we'll just live our truths, independent of what the IFI wishes we'd do. We'll live, love, obtain more and greater rights, have more and bigger ceremonies, and gain more and greater poll traction....

Professional anti-gay would appreciate it if you stop stealing his English language; he owns it—it's his

We gays are just awful, what with our linguistic klepto and all:

"Homosexual activists stole [the word gay] just like they stole the rainbow," [Peter LaBarbera] observes. "Now, I don't believe we should let these words go, but it looks like 'gay' is too far gone. We're not going to let the rainbow be used solely as a homosexual symbol, so we're going to fight that. But the fact is, homosexual activists are constantly stealing good things and adapting them to suit their sexual perversion."



LaBar...

FRC fears ENDA will 'plant homosexuality even more deeply into the fabric of our society'

From the Family Research Council's latest round of "prayer targets":

[FRC]

"Plant homosexuality"? I love how these kids act like we're some sort of seed of destruction that grows stronger with every sociopolitical gain, as if our growing visibility and acceptance is a result of more fair-minded policy and not the other way around.

But position us as a "Little Shop of Horrors" plant they have, so now we'll just have to wait to see if God will answer FRC's "noble" quest to allow employers to discr...

NOM and Ruth getting a divorce

There's a story here, I'm sure:

[Ruth Institute]

50th state closer to being equality's 15th (*plus D.C.)

By a 20–4 vote, the full Hawaii Senate passed marriage equality.

Hawaii Senate passes bill to legalize gay marriage [Reuters]

The bill now moves to the House, where Democrats hold a huge majority, and then to the highly supportive governor's desk.

Passage is not assured, of course. However, if practicing your "Aloha," a word used for both hello and goodbye, I'd opt for the form that's used to greet rather than the one used when things depart.

Interesting strategy: Hawaii opponents admit that Hawaiians support marriage equality

I don't think I've ever seen this before. On the "Let The People Decide on Marriage" site that the anti-equality forces in Hawaii have set up as a way to trip up the marriage equality bill, the coalition includes this talking point:

http://letthepeopledecideonmarriage.org/talking-points/

And they're right, polls do show that. Which is just another reason why the legislature and governor, both in place by the people of Hawaii, should go ahead and act on the people's wishes.

Thanks for the reminde...

Maggie Gallagher: 'I believe SCOTUS is going to impose gay marriage in all fifty states within the next two years'

From her mouth to society's ears...

(*Clip should be cued. If not, pertinent point is at 25:43)

So stop giving to the National Org. For Marriage, potential donors. Your fight is all but fruitless. NOM's co-founder has pretty much admitted it.

If I focus on you, it's because I think your advocacy is a liability to your movement

Bryan Fischer once called me a "stalker." Peter LaBarbera has called me "obsessed." Jennifer Roback Morse called me "her minder," in an attempt to undercut my public pushback against her public role. Other social conservative assume that I and other opposition researchers focus on them because their work has touched a nerve.

None of them get it.

One guiding truth that informs all of my work is that if I focus on you in some sort of heightened way, it's most likely because I think your work is r...

Sandra Day O'Connor makes strong marriage equality move; thanks, Pres. Reagan!!

Ruth Bader Ginsburg did it. Now the Supreme Court Justice's retired counterpart is getting in the game:

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Officiates Gay Wedding AT Supreme Court [J.M.G.]

And social conservatives looking for someone to blame for the fact that this person has his platform to make this statement can look to one person: Religious right icon Ronald Wilson Reagan. The 40th president of course nominated O'Connor, the first woman, to the Supreme Court.

Guess the Gipper loved "judicial...

Head of Hawaii's anti-equality movement: Marriage equality will lead to bestiality, women marrying selves

Jim Hochberg is Hawaii's longtime foe of marriage equality and the head of the current effort against us. Here's what he's telling his neighbors:

HFA-4 from OFM LLC on Vimeo.

Beastaility [sic]? Conubinage? Person-on-self marriage? Oh, the aggressive fear mongering! What a charming, charming movement.

And oh, that old nugget about bisexual people supposedly wanting two spouses. Why can't they understand that capacity for attraction is not the same thing as commitment to a spouse? I mean, any of...