Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 209
September 5, 2013
You get the card; LGBT people get the swipes
" Membership has its heterosexist privileges. "
" It's everywhere you want to be (*if that "everywhere" is a place without LGBT equality). "
" Never leave gay people's home without unnecessary political strife. "
Those are just some suggested tag lines for the anti-gay Family Leader's new discredit card:
$20.16 a month?! That's a hefty price just to show people how much you believe in the wrong side of history.
More than Marriage: IL's 'protect marriage' group posts gay-condemning video
Robert Gagnon's "Homosexuality & The Bible" video is twenty-three minutes of the reliably hostile theologian condemning gay people and our love. Here's a cued up portion to give you an idea:
Today, this very same video is the centerpiece of the Illinois Family Institute's organizational Facebook page:
Remember this in just a few short weeks when the IFI heads to Springfield to lead the charge against civil marriage equality. It's not just about marriage for them. It never was, and it never will...
NOM World Audio: By marrying two adults, Justice Ginsburg undermined 'needs and rights of children'
This past weekend, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg married two men. But what she really did, according to the National Organization For Marriage's interim Communications Director, Chris Plante, is threaten the safety of children everywhere. Here, let him "explain":
Justice Ginsburg was married to her late husband for fifty-six years, and she herself has two children. I don't think she needs Chris Plante to mansplain (or Catholicsplain?) marriage and family...
September 4, 2013
Illinois Family Institute claims nondiscrimination ordinances are 'sexual perversion laws'
If you read this site, you know that the IFI is in a class all by itself. Unlike other statewide "family" groups, most of which are controlled by the Focus on the Family/FRC Family Policy Council network, the IFI is its own entity. This leads to messaging that regularly strays from the pragmatic end of the conversation.
The latest:
Okay, so they use the term "anti-Christian bigots" to refer to their opposition. Yawn. Whatever. I'm so used to that. It holds no weight. It's a meaningless phrase s...
Why you're seeing an increase in trans attacks: They see 'T' as our 'weakest link'; 'clownish'
It's Matt Barber and Mat Staver, so you're not going to be even kind of surprised that they are saying aggressive things that serve their own satisfaction rather than the pragmatic realities of their own movement. Their attacks on Chelsea Manning are predictable—don't focus on that part of it.
Instead, listen to what Barber unwittingly reveals about how he, like many within his movement, sees the transgender population. It will tell you why you're seeing groups like NOM coming out against basi...
NOM gives up on go-nowhere attempt at a meme
For the past few months, the National Organization For Marriage has been trying to create the kind of buzz the Human Rights Campaign so easily created with its "go red" campaign, asking users to change their profile icon to one featuring a man, woman, and child:
But it seems they've given up. NOM just switched back to its old icon:
You just wait—they'll probably blame us for destroying that stick figure family.
Minneapolis Archbishop: Satan behind sodomy, marriage equality, condoms, etc.
Satan is micromanaging both my marriage and my marital bed. So goes the continued "culture war" thinking that we *CIVIL* marriage equality activists are told we must dignify as make our public case for constitutional freedoms:
"Today, many evil forces have set their sights on the dissolution of marriage and the debasing of family life. Sodomy, abortion, contraception, pornography, the redefinition of marriage, and the denial of objective truth are just some of the forces threatening the stabil...
Losses mounting, Tony Perkins turns to word counting
The New York Times wrote a story about Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and his tole in landmark gay rights cases. The Family Research Council's president is shocked—SHOCKED!—that the writer (heterosexual Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak) needed to use the word gay in order to write his story:
*The Times story in question: Surprising Friend of Gay Rights in a High Place [NYT]
Telling? Oh please. A story on Scalia's opposition to gay rights would have used the word just as many t...
Scott Lively continues to praise Putin; invokes 'the battle we waged together against Nazism'
Following up on news that he had penned a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, viciously anti-LGBT pastor Scott Lively has written a blog post in which he (a) confirms that the fan letter has been sent and (b) yet against compares fighting LGBT rights to our past global battle against Hitler and the Nazis:
As the United States and the United Kingdom morph slowly into a “gay” version of the Soviet Union, an unlikely hero of family values has emerged: Russian President Vladimir Putin. In...
