Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 215
August 21, 2013
Wentworth Miller is gay, avoiding Russia
"Thank you for your kind invitation [to the St. Petersburg International Film Festival]. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes.
However, as a gay man, I must decline."
—Actor Wentworth Miller
Welcome out, W.M!
And move over, Thanksgiving dinner—it seems a country declaring cultural war on one of its minority populations is the new coming out catalyst!
NOM mad you didn't hear about this poll; so here, let's talk about it
In truth, the Fox News poll asked the question in several different ways, and got several different responses. All of the responses show great momentum from the time Fox News first started asking the question; on the question of constitutionality, a healthy majority think gays have a constitutional right to marry:
[FULL RESULTS: Fox News]
But as you surely know, it's a difficult time for the National Organization For Marriage, particularly when it comes to something like polling. So what do the...
Maggie Gallagher issues actual response to Gov. Christie (which is just like the one she says was issued in error)
National Organization For Marriage co-founder Maggie Gallagher says that the initial response attributed to her, first reported by Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner, was issued in error. That being the case, she has put out her actual thoughts in regard to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his move to ban scientifically-discredited "ex-gay" programs, at least as they apply to minors. Oddly, her words are pretty much the same as what she said in the "erroneous" release:
"Governor Chris Christie has jus...
August 20, 2013
NOM cordially invites you to history's wrong side
[SOURCE]
I love that last note about ideas being shared, discussed, and debate. HA! NOM blocks just about anyone who tries to leave a perfectly civil and respectful comment defending equality.
Also, the Human Rights Campaign has 1,498,031 likes. Just sayin'. 
Aggressively anti-gay David Caton claims to be decimating Al Jazeera America's advertising
The name David Caton may not ring a bell, but you surely know at least one of his campaigns. He's the guy who flies banners over Disney World whenever the "Gay Day" event comes to the Magic Kingdom, warning anyone in the area of the pesky LGBT people who might dare to see themselves as equally as entitled to riding Splash Mountain as anyone else.
Caton has also gone after several different TV shows and networks for being too inclusive of LGBT human beings. For example, he claims to have convin...
Video: WND publisher's label for those enforcing Oregon nondiscrimination law: 'Nazis'
First off, listen to AFA president Tim Wildmon attempt to "explain" a situation for which he clearly does not have a grasp on anything resembling the facts. But then keep an ear open for WND publisher Joseph Farah, who (at 7:41) slaps a "Nazi" label on the state agents who are simply enforcing local nondiscrimination ordinance.
From there, the whole thing devolves into several minutes of dialogue made up of several different ways to say, "We're just mad that it's decreasingly okay to discrimin...
UPDATE: Maggie Gallagher says 'ex-gay' press release was not hers
Remember that press release in which Maggie Gallagher chastised Gov. Christie for banning "ex-gay" therapy for minors? She now says it was put out and attributed erroneously:
[NRO]
This is a weird turn. Maggie is the board chair of the organization that put out the release. Maggie has also been defending the "right" of "ex-gay" therapy operations all summer long. But now we are to believe that this organization, which she seemingly plays a role in stewarding, put out a press release with multip...
