Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 210
September 4, 2013
Matt Barber is just plain wrong.
When a Tweeter confronted the Liberty Counsel attorney, spokesperson, and Liberty University Law School dean on his claim that a Oregon baker was "forced" to close, the reliably incendiary Matt Barber replied like so (third tweet):
Matt is wrong. Factually wrong. Legally wrong.
The cake, its shape, its coloring, its topper, and its intended destination is just the cosmetic representative. The issue is the denial of business, which was made on the basis of sexual orientation. The couple tried to...
September 3, 2013
Linda Harvey, WND call me 'vicious'
I am the "vicious" "blogger" to which professional LGBT rights opponent Linda Harvey links in her latest WND piece:
"Vicious groups and bloggers are rewarded, even put on monthly retainers, for creative, deceptive attacks on conservatives and their values. Making mountains out of molehills is a skill perfected by these professional 2-year-olds."
—Linda Harvey (Read more at WND)
You know, I would respond to her personal slights—but mommy says it's time for my bottle and a nappy.
Iconizing antagonism: MassResistance sells anti-HRC stickers
This will show us:
The stickers must also be scratch and stiff because I sure smell desperation.
Video: ADF's deliberate (and chilling) attempt to recruit unbridled animus
This video, featuring carefully edited clips, context-stripped news stories played for fear, and the conflation of various ideas all working to serve the overarching narrative that LGBT people are scary, is a deliberate attempt to recruit hostility. It would be one thing if it came from some lone YouTuber or fringe activist. But when you consider that this comes instead from the very legal group that fights us in almost every single major court case, you can't help but feel a chill up your sp...
Bryan Fischer already designing President Obama's library
The American Family Association senior analyst thinks he knows the highlight of all forthcoming Obama exhibits:
And here I thought it was healthcare.
Frank Schubert still defending 2012's weak, contrived, losing messaging
Frank Schubert, the man who messaged all of the anti-gay ballot campaigns of 2012, is still defending the unsuccessful efforts that he and his pals at the National Organization For Marriage (Schubert serves as NOM's political director) mounted against us. When faced with the claim that his side has sounded like a broken record (kids, ask your parents what a record is), Schubert responds:
"You do see similar elements just as you see similar elements from their side in all four of their campaign...
August 30, 2013
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to marry John Roberts (*but not that one)
This weekend, Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser is marrying his fiancé, economist John Roberts (no relation). Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will serve as officiant:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first Supreme Court member to conduct a same-sex marriage ceremony Saturday when she officiates at the Washington wedding of Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser.
KEEP READING: Ginsburg to officiate same-sex wedding [WaPo]
"I now pronounce you whole milk married!"
Not...
