Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 214
August 26, 2013
August 23, 2013
The National Organization for ['We don't serve your kind here!']
Yesterday afternoon, New Mexico's high court did the obvious: it found that business owners who conduct commercial exchanges with the public cannot pointedly deny service to a gay couple. As I said yesterday, most of these vendors can likely find a way to lie about why they are denying the service ("Oh sorry, we're all booked on that day") and manage to fulfill their discriminatory wishes. However, they cannot deny a potential client of the basis of who they are, which is what every last one...
NOM's Ruth Institute pits Uncle Sam against uncles, same-sex
For the National Organization For Marriage's Ruth Institute, gay people's legal unions are at the forefront of the "disintegration of marriage." And that "disintegration" is "at the root of most of society's ills":
(From the Ruth Institute's latest fundraising blast, delivered via email)
It's so gross. It's bad enough that they seriously position marriages like mine as being at root a societal ill, but it's even worse that they are co-opting an iconic American image to do this un-American biddi...
NOM's new meme: Taking life's sweet things and besmirching them with NOM agenda
NOM's latest attempt to reach viral status:
Oh come on, NOM. It's bad enough that you have to take away rights, happiness, family protections, and good will toward your fellow citizen who happens to be LGBT or an ally. But must the cake also suffer?
Surely we can all agree that cake is sacred. And delicious.
Which example would that be, WBC? Driving my children to flee then disowning them when they do?
I actually haven't written about Westboro Baptist in quite some time, as I find the "church" pretty darn boring these days. The only compelling story of recent involves the growing number of young members (Megan, Libby, Grace, Sara, Lauren, Josh, etc.) who have left Phelps way of life in order to seize dreams that don't involve protesting funerals or recording mean-spirited pop parodies. That's been fascinating to watch, and I've truly enjoyed talking to some of these former members. Their in...
August 22, 2013
Video: 12 mins 35 secs of American Family Association turning America against me, my family
-- Christians are the new slaves suffering under a new form of Jim Crow
-- The military's gay ban was good because gays are perverse
-- People who support scientifically-recognized transgender human beings are being "anti-science"
-- The San Antonio councilwoman who called gays "disgusting" was simply echoing God and in line with most Americans
-- Gays are "contrary to nature and nature's God"
It's just another day on the job for a man who managed to single-handedly take the always-extreme America...
NM Supreme Court tells anti-gay business owners what I and others told them years ago
Elane Photography is one of the main cases that far-right commentators like to cite whenever they attempt to turn wanton discrimination against LGBT people into an act of "religious freedom" or conscience. Today, New Mexico's high court delivered a crushing blow to that meme:
NEW MEXICO: Supreme Court Rules That Photographer Discriminated Against Gays [J.M.G.]
If you conduct business with the public in states with inclusive nondiscrimination laws, you have two choices: (a) do your job, regardle...
My marriage is not a 'bad consequence,' Ryan T. Anderson!
I am so sick of heterosexual people telling me that my ten-year-going-on-life, monogamous, committed marriage is some sort of consequence of heterosexuals' "bad" behavior. Here's unmarried and Catholic-driven Heritage Foundation staffer Ryan T. Anderson doing just that:
"It’s also the fact that the past 40 years have been a nightmare for marriage in general. Same-sex marriage is only plausible in a world that has already done so much damage to marriage and human sexuality. The elimination of t...
August 21, 2013
New Mexico AG won't stand in way of love, history's inevitable course
While cases are pending before the state Supreme Court, New Mexico's Democratic Attorney General is letting love take its proper hold:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he will not challenge a move by a Dona Ana County clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
King told reporters Wednesday at a news conference that he didn’t believe state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage were constitutional.
KEEP READING: BREAKING: AG will not challenge N.M. county’s same-sex marr...
