Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 197
October 9, 2013
Smug, glib, discriminatory: Gov. Christie continues offensive disregard for civil equality
A Republican governor of a blue state continues to show arrogant disregard for civil rights and their handling:
"Okay, so you put it on the ballot — you vote your way, I vote my way. And whoever gets the most votes wins."
—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, speaking to a pro-equality new Jersey voter on the subject of marriage equality and his insistence that same-sex couples' marriages must pass popularity contest
So unbelievably offensive.
Let's vote on your marriage, governor. Then if we get...
The Family Leader warns of pro-LGBT time when 'it will be better to die than to live'
After running down a list of nine items, from the Disney Channel's inclusion of lesbian parents to gay consumers' pushback against Barilla pasta, that show a nation heading toward more LGBT acceptance, a writer for Iowa's Family Leader organization concludes with this quote:
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First things first: If "winning" means going back to a time when LGBT people are shunned, closeted, or worse, then The Family Leader has already lost that chance. For good. We will never go back there, regardless o...
Southern Baptist leader monitors Bushes' wedding RSVPs; sends his personal regrets
George and Barbara Bush recently witnessed the wedding of a lesbian couple with whom they are friendly. At least one Southern Baptist leader is now here to properly condemn the Bushes for their celebratory choices:
"The news coverage of the Bushes’ attendance at the same-sex wedding points to a reality that must be understood—and fast. Attendance at a wedding is not a neutral act. The history and context of the wedding ceremony identify all those present as agreeing to the rightness of the mar...
October 8, 2013
'Rescuing homosexuals' with the Illinois Family Institute's favorite lobbyist
For the past several years, the Illinois Family Institute, the state group leading the charge against marriage equality in the Land of Lincoln, has used Linda Jernigan as a sort of lobbyist against the marriage bill. Linda has testified before various legislative committees, has spoken at several IFI events, and has made prominent speeches at various IFI lobby days in Springfield. She also does media alongside IFI president Dave Smith, helping him make a case against basic equal rights for lo...
Add 'fact' to NOM's abused words list
The National Organization for Marriage continues what has been its driving agenda for the past two years: making gay parents seem innately flawed, subpar, and even damaging to their children. And to add insult to the injuries that they are deliberately fostering, NOM purports to have "fact" on their side:
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Oh please. The only "fact" at play here is the one that says the National Organization For Marriage has strayed far from its initial goal of stopping same-sex marriage and instead drifte...
Man behind politically-motivated, discredited research supports same
Mark Regnerus' 2012 study purporting to make gay families seem subpar has been so thoroughly discredited and its political motivations so exhaustively uncovered, I no longer even feel a need to address it. In Google, as in credible scientific circles, "Regnerus" is now synonymous with politically-driven, point-of-view research designed to discredit a certain population.
So you have to laugh when you see Regnerus, writing for the uber-conservative website Public Discourse (a project of the same...
Video: New documentary details the gay-decimated shell that is Massachusetts
Ever since the gays have been committing themselves to legally-recognized bonds, Massachussetts has of course become an apocalyptic bunker, the kind of scary setting fit for dystopian exploration. So suggests this poorly produced video that the rabidly anti-LGBT MassResistance just posted to Youtube:
October 7, 2013
Brian Brown: Gay people marry just to hurt me; give me money
On apparent break from telling Russia to ban same-sex adoptions so that children might have "normal" parents, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown has issued yet another fundraising blast (NOM issues about three a day at this 
point) in which he frames those of us who support marriage (i.e. the majority of Americans, out duly elected president, a majority of the U.S. Senate, etc.) as "extremists" who are in this whole thing not because we want to protect our families but be...
Conservative magazine: LGBT people are secret weapons
Families like mine are really just secret weapons that are lying in wait. We are Trojan Horses that will soon use our growing acceptance to destroy America from within.
Thus goes the narrative WhistleBlower magazine's latest cover story. The WorldNetDaily spinoff publication is using some of America's most rabidly anti-LGBT voices to craft a piece of dehumanizing propaganda rivaling any of history's worst:
Eventually warming up to a growing “gay-friendly” culture (promoted at every turn by the...
