Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 189
October 29, 2013
HOLY CRAP! NOM attempts to link same-sex marriage to incestuous marriage!
The Illinois Family Institute's Laurie Higgins is one of the most extreme-tongued voices in the anti-LGBT movement. Like for reals, her rhetoric must be seen to be believed.
But it's not out of line for NOM. They just pushed one of her ideas—one connecting gay people's loving unions to ones that might exist between blood relatives:
Um, let's see...
Consent (or lack thereof).
Medical consensus about blood relative bonding.
The fact that neither polygamy nor incest are sexual orientations while ho...
Brian Brown admonishes man 'who lost virtually every election he was involved with in 2012;' oddly, he wasn't talking to giant mirror
The National Organization for Marriage has had one of the worst years of any special interest groups in recent memory. Come Christmas time, they could string together their many losses the way others string together popcorn.
But get this: in his latest fundraising pitch supporting the truly rabid ticket that is Cuccinelli/Jackson, NOM prez Brian Brown has the gall to admonish Karl Rove for losing "virtually every election he was involved with in 2012":
[SOURCE: NOM]
But to be fair, I don't think...
'We win, they lose' says person whose movement has been losing—and hard!—for past year
As regular readers well know, Bryan Fischer's favorite "values" issue is the denigration of LGBT people. And here's that American Family Association's spokesperson's view on how things are going and need to go:
If the past year is how Bryan defines "winning," then let me be the first to pray for more and greater "victory."
Oh HI, right side of history: HI Senate committee advances marriage equality
By a 5–2 vote, the Hawaii Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee voted to advance a marriage equality bill:
State Senate committee passes same sex marriage bill [Star Advertiser]
Now on to the full Senate, a House committee, and the full House. Then the supportive governor's desk.
Then—at long last, maybe, finally—I get to go to some marriage equality celebrations on Kauia. That is, after all, why I got into this whole fight.
Audio: Tony Perkins vs. humor
A caller dialed into Tony Perkins' radio show and claimed that Satan uses humor to persuade the viewing public that homosexuality is okay. The Family Research Council prez was simply giddy to have such a like-mind on the line:
*First voice is the caller
Could he have said "absolutely!" any more emphatically? I haven't heard Tony this agreeable since the time he was asked to eat Chick-fil-A in a Fox News green room while listening to the Duggar kids serenade him with with tuneful recitations of...
October 28, 2013
Man leading current fight against #HI4M once admitted he wants to 'discourage' homosexuality
These days, you're less likely to hear James Hochberg, the man heading up the current fight against Hawaii marriage equality, admit that he thinks homosexuality is like drug addiction. But that wasn't the case back in 1993, when people like him felt a little more comfortable with the whole homo-hostility thing.
Here is the same Hochberg, as quoted by the July '93 edition of ABA Journal:
There's a Hawaii marriage hearing going on as I write this. Let's hear it, Mr. Hochbe...
NOM's latest (destined-to-fail) attempt at a social media meme: Denigrating kids raised by single parents
The National Organization For Marriage, an organization supposedly focused on civil marriage equality, wants you to change your Facebook pic so that it tells all of your friends who happen to be raised by loving single parents, same-sex parents, grandparents, unmarried opposite-sex parents, or within myriad of other setups that their family structure is less worthwhile:
[NOM]
Guess "This Person Determined To Make Millions of Children Feel Like Crap About Their Loving Families" was already taken...
Hawaii Republican Assembly radio ad: Marriage equality is really push to 'normalize all sorts of deviant behavior'
With marriage equality going before the state legislature this week, the Hawaii Republican Assembly is determined to shoot its own movement in the foot by showing how extreme and personally denigrating the pro-discrimination movement really is:
What the hell is "bisexual marriage"?
