Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 202
September 20, 2013
On Rep. Labrador's Pro-Discrimination Act of 2013
By now you've surely heard about the new bill that a band of House conservatives have concocted in yet another effort to dismantle the gains that the marriage equality movement has made. They call it the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, but a more accurate title would be the Free Pass For Tax-Subsidized Organizations To Discriminate So Long As They Cite God As Their Impetus For Doing So.
Listen to how one of its cosponsors, conservative Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski (IL), details the bill's in...
September 19, 2013
FRC essentially lied in court
At the sentencing of the man behind that awful, despicable, scary, resoundingly denounced incident of gunplay that played out at the Family Research Council's headquarters in the summer of 2012, FRC president Tony Perkins read a statement in front of a District Court judge. Here is some of what said about the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks discriminatory groups:
This is a lie. A number of groups carry a "protect marriage" and are not at all a part of the SPLC's monitoring. Even long...
NOM gay-shames moderate Republican congressional candidate
Carl Demaio is running for California's 52nd congressional seat. He's running as a Republican. He's running as a Republican who also happens to be gay.
The National Organization For Marriage, in an action alert apparently sent from 1953, is coming out in support of DeMaio's conservative Republican rival, Kirk Jorgensen. I say NOM's alert is from an earlier era because rather than just tout the merits they see in Jorgensen, NOM is instead dragging out Mr. DeMaio's sexuality (which NOM apparentl...
NOM now pushing LaBarbera's verifiable animus
There was a time when the National Organization For Marriage's logo and Peter LaBarbera's unique brand of public engagement never would have met, at least not publicly. But with NOM getting more animus-driven by the day, the "protect marriage" organization and its affiliate, the Ruth Institute, now seem to have no problem touting Peter's filter-less denigrations of LGBT people:
Pride parades are akin to pornography? Hmm, then I must be doing it wrong. I march front and ce...
Responsible commentators shy away from 'Hillary is a lesbian' rumors; so here's Bryan Fischer doing it instead
With 2016 still years away, the American Family Association's spunkiest li'l firecracker, Bryan Fischer, is already insinuating that First Lady, Senator, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton could—could, could, could—become our first lesbian president:
Fischer: Hillary Clinton 'Could Be Our First Lesbian President' [RightWingWatch]
And it keeps Bryan up at night in cold sweats, seemingly.
As "evidence," Fischer is trotting out that old claim that Clinton and her longtime aide (and wife to Anthony We...
September 18, 2013
IL Family Institute's Laurie Higgins: Gay marriages are 'far more radical' than incestuous ones
The reliably hostile Laurie Higgins, lead researcher for the Illinois Family Institute, continues to show fence-sitting Illinois lawmakers the true heart of the state's "protect marriage" movement:
"I don’t see the relevance of your friendship with a homosexual couple to the question of what marriage is or why the government is involved. If I knew a father and daughter who were in love and committed to spending their lives together, my view of the importance of the criterion regarding blood ki...
Video: CBN's egocentric, self-victimizing take on San Antonio's anti-discrimination law
Conservative Christians vow to "rise up" and "push back" against an ordinance designed to curb the decades of aggression that others have shown toward LGBT citizens. No canard is left unsaid:
It's adorable, this idea that the Christian church, in Texas of all places, has supposedly been asleep all these years. Quite the restless sleepers, those evangelicals.
NOM continues to decry gay 'lifestyles'
Earlier this week, I showed you how the National Organization For Marriage has been straying from its usual patterns of behavior and language, now admitting that its fight is actually against acceptance of "the homosexual lifestyle." In a new post about gay pride parades, NOM makes it even more clear, not only using the "lifestyle" language in two separated instances but also saying we gays have "a lifestyle that is understandably objectionable to many":
[NOM]
Keep up that obvious animus, NOM....
