Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 201
September 23, 2013
NOM fittingly defends childish games of make-believe
Joe.My.God tips me to this, NOM's latest attempt at a photo meme:
Stay tuned for NOM's jobs plan, which protects a world where every little boy grows up to be a firefighter and every little girl fulfills her dream of being a fairy princess.
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**Oh, and NOM should be careful. Too much pre-marriage pressure might give this groom cold feet:
(More stock photos here)
Audio: Scott Lively, on trial for crimes against humanity, frames gays as End Times precedent
If I were facing trial over my truly chilling work against LGBT people, I probably wouldn't position gays as the catalyst for the end of the world. But I'm not Scott Lively:
[Janet Mefferd Show, 9/20]
In terms of making people dislike a certain population, isn't a point about that population leading to the mortal world's destruction about as harsh as any one could possibly make? I'm thinking so.
In the intro to this clip, radio host Janet Mefferd claimed people like me want to silence Lively. HA...
NRA's latest way to show America it doesn't get it: Equating their cherished dangerous weapons with 'gayness'
In a video denouncing the java giant for its stance against customers bringing guns into stores, NRA News commentator Colton Noir makes this jaw-droppingly offensive comparison:
NOIR: "In the wake of Starbucks coming out of the proverbial anti-gun closet - yes, I said anti-gun - because when you request that I don't bring my gun with me into your store, that's an anti-gun stance. Think about it. When you say 'We're not pro- or anti-gay but please all gay people - we respectfully ask that you...
National Organization for [Banning Divorce]
If the first two lines form a position that they think can and must be inscribed into civil policy, why should we expect this special interest group to stop there?
I mean, personally I would do okay in that "ONE TIME" world, since I'm more than confident that my amazing husband and I will stay in our rock-solid bond for life. But neither my life's reality nor my personal opinions form a basis off which I'd ever set shared public policy. That is what NOM does not understand!
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FRC: Marriage equality harms individuals, 'degrade[s] society'
According to the ever measured Family Research Council, denying civil marriage equality to gays is not an injustice. After all, we need to stop gay people's committed happiness in order to save society itself:
Organizations like Freedom to Marry, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Human Rights Campaign argue that same-sex marriage is a matter of justice: If two same-sex partners (1) love one another romantically and (2) volitionally choose to wed, there should be no legal impedi...
September 20, 2013
SC: Former contractor for history's wrong side builds better future
Inequality is a choice. Change is possible:
Former South Carolina State Senator John Hawkins, who led the charge in South Carolina to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage, announced on Wednesday at a speech before the Alliance for Full Acceptance that he now regrets what he did and supports full marriage equality.
KEEP READING: SC SENATOR WHO LED CHARGE TO PASS GAY MARRIAGE BAN SAYS HE WAS WRONG, SUPPORTS EQUALITY: VIDEO [Towle]
Voices of majority privilege viciously dehumanize minorities; sound familiar, history?
It's getting really vicious:
SOURCE:Right Wing Watch]
There are not normal things to say. These are the kinds of dangerous comments that proceed history's ScaryTime Awful Hours.
On one hand, I "love" comments like these because they hurt Pete and Matt's own movement (something that people within their own movement have admitted to me). But at the same time, actual human people—and especially young people—still have to come up in a world where this mindset can and does influence others. Political...
Are Illinois lawmakers good with calling gays a 'particularly evil lie of Satan'? Because IFI is.
Yesterday morning, the extremely anti-gay Illinois Family Institute (reminder: IFI's lead researcher just said gay marriage are more radical than incestuous marriages), held yet another pastors event. Glenn Stanton addressed the faith-driven crowd on why they should resist marriage equality:
[IFI]
So who is Glenn Stanton, you ask? Well, he'd be the Focus on the Family staffer who believes this about gay people:
[SOURCE: FocusOnTheFamily.com]
Because that's apparently how you "defend marriage" in...
