Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 224
August 2, 2013
Black Conservative Summit boasts multiple speakers who blame Satan for gays, LGBT rights
William Owens, the National Organization For Marriage's religious liaison, claims homosexuality is not natural, says President Obama is a Judas for supporting marriage equality, and has a penchant for linking homosexuality to pedophilia.
Harry Jackson says LGBT-headed families are "discombobulated, Frankenstein structures" that are "out of order" with God, claims the modern push...
August 1, 2013
If you lie about the majority of people long enough...
…it's still a damn lie.
Here's the National Organization for Marriage's Chris Plate repeating the claim that the vast majority of Americans are with him:
“And that majority of Americans – despite what we see in polls by liberal-leaning CNN or Pew – the vast majority of Americans believe marriage to be between one man and one woman,” says Plante. “We know the common sense behind uniting man and woman together to bring the next generation into fruition.” [ONN]
No poll shows a "vast majority" suppo...
Tony Perkins: Justice Kennedy should be impeached
The Family Research Council president might be a fan of President Reagan, but he's sure not fond of one of the GOP superstar's Supreme Court picks. Listen how he wants to punish Justice Anthony Kennedy for his DOMA decision:
Oh please, please, please let them try! I would pop popcorn and just watch the proceedings like the foot-shooting tragic-comedy that they'd surely be!






On Catholic Charities, Ryan T. Anderson is being either disingenuous or deceptive; wrong either way
Catholic Charities accepts state funds which is why Catholic Charities must follow state nondiscrimination law. If Catholic Charities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere did not want to enjoy the privileges that come from public money/state contracts, then Catholic Charities would not be bound by state policies.
Now check the following Twitter exchange in which the far-right's suddenly omnipresent "young person" commentator, Ryan T. Anderson, completely (and willfully?) obfuscates the tr...
NOM vows to waste money removing MN, RI legislators; will change nothing even if successful
Yawn:
Washington, D.C. — With marriage having been redefined and same-sex 'marriages' beginning today in Minnesota and Rhode Island, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today reminded state politicians that it will work to hold them accountable to voters come election day. NOM has pledged to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure that voters know who is responsible for redefining marriage.
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Virtually no politician in Minnesota or Rhode Island ran on a platform that openly...
Minnesota for Marriage is 'grieving' over neighbors' love, equal rights, peace of mind
Seriously. They are "grieving":
“This is a sad day in our state for the majority of Minnesotans who still believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman as God designed”…“We are grieving because we understand that Minnesota’s families, children, and religious liberty rights will all pay the price for the decision made by a group of legislators to force a gender-neutral society on our state.”
—Autumn Leva, spokeswoman for Minnesota for Marriage, who clearly needs to read an etiquett...
Senior NOM employee: 'I don't want them to 'stay being homosexual''
The National Organization For Marriage, a D.C. special interest group supposedly focused on policy and not animus, pays this individual a six figure salary:
[SOURCE]
So NOM, could you tell me again about how Justice Kennedy was supposedly wrong to think your side is motivated by personal animus? I could use a good laugh.
This came as part of a lengthy exchange (read the full thing here) in which Roback Morse followed up her commentary on the Pope by debating what, exactly, will take gay people t...
Video: These 'children of the Devil' are calling us names!
This movement is truly unbelievable.
In the following clip, Pastor Cary Gordon, who has claimed that God is going to destroy a pro-gay America, and his host, Rev. Jesse L Peterson, dedicate their time toward claiming that gay people bully, demean, slander and mischaracterize people on their pro-discrimination side. But at the very same time, these two who fight against LGBT citizens' rights quite literally claim that we who fight for LGBT equality are "children of the Devil" (at 4:25) and "on...
We will never stop connecting gays to incest, vows Illinois' top 'protect marriage' group
Laurie Higgins uses extreme and deeply offensive rhetoric; that is not news to anyone who follows LGBT politics.
But the fact that the Illinois Family Institute, the organization leading the fight against civil marriage equality, keeps using these extreme views in its official talking points is certainly noteworthy:
[IFI]
Okay, first off—stop with the idea that gays are not sexually complimentary. Unless Laurie Higgins has had more gay sex than I have, she knows not of what she speaks. Gay peopl...
July 31, 2013
I fully support the soon-to-lose 'protect marriage' movement's right to blow off steam
In a campaign, legislative debate, court hearing, or some other arena where emotional appeals and personally-held faith convictions could quite literally deny me of my ciivl rights, I of course spill much digital ink pushing back against those who are mad, sad, or being downright disingenuous about my marriage and how they fear it will impact their lives. But something very interesting (and so damn freeing) happens once we on the side of equality win our rights in a certain state or federally...