Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 21
April 15, 2015
Legally educated Hillary wants SCOTUS to make legally educated marriage decision
Not surprising, but still good to get confirmation:
BREAKING: [Hillary] Clinton urges Supreme Court to rule for marriage equality [WashBlade]
The funny thing? Most of the GOP presidential candidates want the same thing, even though they'll never admit. It will give them something to gripe about to motivate the base without forcing them to make any strong policy pushes on the subject. "Our hands are tied," they'll each claim, "but you should elect me so we can get better judges."
April 14, 2015
Video: CNN's Tapper to Sen. Rubio: 'You're the candidate of yesterday' on marriage equality
"Candidate of yesterday." It has a good ring to it:
Well to be fair, Mr. Tapper, he's part of the party of yesterday on this issue (among many others).
FRC's seventh day of fasting-for-discrimination: In support of brief that 'explains' God's coming judgement
Yesterday's edition of the PR disaster that is the Family Research Council's twenty-one days of prayer and fasting for marriage (see collected roundup below) was actually a little muted. However, this bit stood out:
Over a hundred and eighty briefs have been submitted, about 80 in favor of same-sex “marriage,” about 50, against
One of them explains how the Judgment of God that will come upon our nation, if the justices rule the wrong way. Unless the Spirit of God opens their eyes, some of...
What exactly are the human beings who buy wedding cakes and flowers, Sen. Rubio?
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Republican U.S. Senator and just-announced presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-FL) weighed in on the so-called "religious freedom" issue that has been in the LGBT news cycle for many years now and that just made its way into the mainstream press about three weeks ago. Like others, Rubio tries to pretend that baking a cake or arranging flowers, etc., automatically becomes "participation" in a wedding, so long as it's a wedding of the same-sex. And s...
April 13, 2015
Shorter NOM: The wheels have come off our bus!
With no press coverage, major support, or anything resembling momentum, the National Organization For Marriage, which has been trying for weeks to fundraise and promote this year's "march for marriage" (so-called), are now running a GoFundMe campaign in hopes that donors will pay for buses to the event:
[NOM]
Even though NOM does little else besides beg for cash these days (seriously; their emails now include like twenty pleas for money), NOM claims they need this new, seemingly excessive...
Latest wrong-side-of-history SCOTUS brief: Marriage equality ruling 'could exceed the disastrous consequences of Dred Scott'
If you've noticed an uptick in references to the infamous Dred Scott case in recent months, it's because the anti-gay movement has convinced itself that linking an ignoble ruling that allowed for the ownership of human beings who were branded and sold as slaves to a potential ruling that will finally grant full marriage parity to same-sex couples in all fifty states is a good, rather than monumentally obtuse, thing for them to do at this late and (most) high profile hour in the debate. Here'...
April 12, 2015
FRC's sixth day of fasting-for-discrimination: Where to even begin with this one?!
In the Sunday edition of the stunt that the Family Research Council calls twenty-one days of prayer and fasting and that people like me call "the PR disaster that proves once and for all just how animus-driven this deeply GOP-connected group really is," the Family Research Council is praying for the attorneys who are arguing on behalf of marriage equality, the media, people who work for the federal government. All are taking part in evil, demands FRC, in one of the most derisive pieces this o...
These men are very scared of a certain woman
Fear. Negativity:
Positivity. Dare I say "hope":
FRC's fifth day of fasting-for-discrimination: Attorneys arguing marriage hold 'the survival of many nations' in their hands
On Saturday, the Family Research Council dedicated its daily call for prayer-and-fasting toward the attorneys who will be arguing for marriage inequality before the US Supreme Court. Because as FRC will tell you, Sodom and Gomorrah proves that God is going to end those nations that get too friendly with the gays:
Our task today will be to pray for the attorneys as they prepare what will certainly be the case of their lives, the outcome on which could hang the survival of many nations. Give...
