Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 221
August 8, 2013
The freedom to marry (*and not feel like part of the problem)
The Associated Press is running a fairly interesting report on everyday supporters of marriage equality who are now feeling more freedom to enter into their own different-sex marriages now that same-sex marriage is an increasing legal reality:
NEW YORK (AP) — No, it wasn't just an excuse to avoid getting hitched: Some heterosexual couples who postponed their weddings until gay couples had the right to marry are now making plans to say "I do."
KEEP READING: Queer marriage for the straight couple...
Video: President's birthday party? A gay orgy, natch
Nancy Pelosi should be arrested, and the President (an "arab Muslim," of course) is a secretly gay man in an Reverend-Wright-arranged marriage who surrounded himself with other men at his recent birthday celebration for obvious reasons. So says this obviously objective person who has clearly—CLEARLY!—been gleaning his past five years of political information from the most trusted of sources:
I'm not hostile to those non-existent, deep-end-dwelling sinners!
It's no surprise that every last one of the comments is hostile to LGBT equality. After all, the Christian Civic League of Maine framed Equality Maine's efforts to create safe and inclusive schools as a "reeducation" plan. When people who are already opposed to equal rights for LGBT people hear purposely loaded terms like "reeducation," you can only expect their replies to trend toward the vehement.
But this one reply really caught my eye:
FULL SET OF COMMENTS: Readers comment on reeducation by...
August 7, 2013
At least the IFI admits it wants to ban us
The other side hates when we use the word "ban." For years, the National Organization For Marriage even ran a directive that told supporters to stay away from the "ban" word because they know it helps our side.
But I have to give the IFI points here. The group that always follows its own drummer in terms of rhetoric (read: they routinely say truly vitriolic things without regard for pragmatic political messaging) is now coming right and admitting that theirs is a ban:
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The arguments in t...
Disliking LGBT people is inborn? Really?
The anti-LGBT movement has spent decades, countless dollars, and many squandered hours strategizing ways to fight against us. They've come up with many different campaigns to go after us, but most of all of them relying on the idea that we are unsavory and/or threatening. They've done this, obviously, because they want to define us so that people's natural instinct of acceptance and inclusion will not take hold. They know without their considerable efforts trying to cast us out of decent soci...
Read: Focus on the Family 'empowering parents' to shun LGBT-inclusive schools
It's back to school time, which for Focus on the Family's resident education analyst, Candi Cushman, means another year of convincing parents that basic tolerance of LGBT people in public schooling is tantamount to "indoctrination." She even has props:
Watch Candi's pro-discrimination/anti-acceptance video here. Read her advice guide below:
[SOURCE: Focus on the Family's "True Tolerance" sit...
Desegregation, women's suffrage, and—the right to condemn gay people?!
The American Family Association's most visible (and viscously vocal) spokesperson:
Ah, yes—the right of a non-persecuted majority to undermine a long-marginalized minority. Such a noble fight!
Clearly Bryan posts this stuff to rile people up. It's not working. People like me proudly scoff at the sheer madness and meanness dripping from his words. But the people who really, really, really Bryan's rhetoric are the more mainstream conservatives. It's that movement Bryan's really cutting and exposi...
