Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 222
August 7, 2013
Audio: FRC's Sprigg (again) claims homosexuality is 'harmful to the people who engage in it and to society at large'
A caller calls in and claims there is no difference between being gay or lesbian and being a thief or a dope pusher. The Family Research Council's senior policy fellow and lead researcher, Peter Sprigg, is more to eager to embolden that claim (and even help her make a weird connection to Fort Hood) before stating his organization's belief that being gay is harmful to society. Enjoy:
Washington Watch [YT]
It's outrageous. There is literally no worse charge that a pundit could lay at a minority p...
August 6, 2013
NARTH now selling its snake oil on Vimeo
America's house of "ex-gay" propaganda, NARTH, apparently believes that its science-defying teachings can be valued in dollars. Eight dollars, in fact:
[NARTH on Vimeo]
And there are others for sale, too, all for eight bucks. But really, who can put a price tag on the incredible damage this group (and movement) has done?
CBN links 'gays, druggies, and misfits'; pretends it didn't
This was the initial headline and report:
[Google News]
But apparently even the Christian Broadcasting Network knows when it goes to far. The decidedly anti-LGBT network yanked, scrubbed, and reposted this report under the milquetoast headline:
Only thing? The report still includes this:
One reason The Refuge has become a big hit is because it centers on love and acceptance, not judgment of even hard-core cases.
"We open it up to pretty much anybody of any lifestyle," Marshall said. "We have a lot...
Group leading fight against civil marriage equality in IL: 'Satan wants to destroy marriage'
And now the latest from the organization leading the charge to tell certain taxpayers of a supposedly church/state-separated Illinois that they cannot obtain a civil marriage license:
[IFI]
My suggestion to IFI: If this is your concern, then press lawmakers to pass a bill that creates some sort of a Beelzebub defense shield. Banning gay people from the civil component of marriage will do nothing to stop this unseen threat that your personal theology tells you is imminent.
The only thing GLSEN is 'infiltrating' is the schoolyard 'smear the queer' game
We recognize transgender children for one primary reason: because transgender children exist.
But to hear Alliance Defending Freedom's Matt Sharp tell it, a trans child is on part with a kid who wants to eat junk food all day. Oh, and advocacy groups that work to foster understanding of LGBT children (who, let me again remind you, realistically exist independent of politics) are in it just so they can undermine American parents:
At what point did we as a society abandon the idea that good pare...
August 5, 2013
Can someone in D.C. please messenger definition of 'defend' to NOM's office? K, thanks
My answer: "Remind my husband, here on his birthday week in this tenth wonderful year that we've been lucky enough to share together, of all the many things I love about him and our (soon-to-grow) family."
How do you respond to the National Organization For Marriage's query?
[SOURCE (*check out the responses, 99% of which are anti-NOM)
Oh, and of course I'll continue my goal of pushing NOM into the political wilderness. After all, no single group has done more to take away people's marriages ove...
Yup, Maggie—and a better country every time a state wins marriage equality!
An interesting post from Maggie Gallagher, who actually seems to be applauding America's diversity:
[SOURCE: NRO]
Oh, I'll totally admit it: this country is amazing! Good thing we either dodged (in the case of the Federal Marriage Amendment that Maggie championed) or are moving away from (in the case of DOMA, state bans, votes that go against us, bad court opinions, etc.) those attempts to weaken it.
