Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 230
July 18, 2013
NOM says 'ex-gay' group just trying to let gays 'live according to the Bible's laws'
The National Organization For Marriage (& 'Ex-Gay' Advocacy):
On Friday my friend and hero Chuck LiMandri (who was one of the first to help us get Prop 8 on the ballot!) will be in court in New Jersey, taking on the goliath Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its new militant attempt to misuse consumer fraud laws to attack a small Jewish nonprofit named JONAH that helps observant Jews with same-sex attraction live according to the Bible's laws.
This is one of the hugest stories you've never...
House GOP concedes: DOMA is a Dodo
Goodbye, BLAG; we hardly knew ya. Chris Geidner has the deets:
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders announced in a court filing Thursday that they will not be defending remaining statutes similar to the Defense of Marriage Act that ban recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages.
KEEP READING: House Republicans Cave On Marriage Fight [Buzzfeed]
Rumor has it that the GOP-led House might actually consider passing a law instead. Wouldn't that be a novel idea?
I don't 'blame' Orson Scott Card—I just make the consumer choice to avoid his work
I'm thrilled that the director and young stars of Enders Game are speaking out against Orson Scott Card's shocking ant-gay rhetoric….
'Ender's Game' stars answer gay rights questions [AP via Yahoo! News]
….but I do have to pushback against a new meme that is popping up around the film. Namely, the idea that "you can't blame a work for its author," a claim that young star Asa Butterfield makes in the above-linked AP story but that is the general tone that all of the film's defenders are using t...
Illinois' top 'protect marriage' group claims same-sex parenting is child abuse
Using the shockingly incendiary Robert Oscar López as her guide, the Illinois Family Institute's Laurie Higgins is now telling IFI supporters that gay parents are essentially child abusers:
[IFI]
Offensive to gays. Offensive to actual victims of child abuse. Offensive to every fiber of decency.
What will add insult to injury, however, is if the Illinois legislature continues to buy the lie that this group is a mere "traditional marriage" organization. This is a very extreme organization with ver...
Maggie Gallagher sticks to hobby of misrepresenting, slurring Justice Kennedy
For the past three weeks, the National Organization For Marriage co-founder and most visible face of the modern "protect marriage" movement has been telling anyone who will listen that Justice Anthony Kennedy declared a "fatwa" against people like her. In an interview with National Catholic Register, Maggie Gallagher repays her now-favorite phrase before telling readers to not accept the legitimacy of the Supremer Court's majority opinion:
"I didn’t expect the absolute contempt expressed by th...
July 17, 2013
Video: Street preacher struggles to overcome British accent's naturally calm, proper, reasoned lilt
So hard to take the fervor seriously when it sounds so darn proper:
NOM hero Robert Oscar López: Gay parenting is abuse
Just last week, the National Organization For Marriage leant glowing credence to the agenda and attentive deference to the opinions of one Robert Oscar López. This Robert Oscar López:
Regardless of the condemnations and attacks, I stand by my point of view, made in recent American Thinker and Public Discourse articles, that same-sex parenting is inherently abusive of children.
I know that hurts a lot of gay and lesbian people's feelings, but there's really no nice way to state this. We've been...
Bryan Fischer already working to derail Liz Cheney's candidacy; guess why
A peculiarly-focused person aims his fiery tongue at a conservative scion and her U.S. Senate bid:
[Fischer]
Totally, B-dog! In fact, I think that's actually going to be her campaign slogan: "Coming in Wyoming's back door."
Keep up the obsessions, pal.
Queen gives Duchess of Cambridge early baby gift: Marriage equality!
Congratulations, England and Wales. Britons can now use their famously stiff upper lips to kiss their same-sex bride or groom:
Job done: Queen signs gay marriage into law in England and Wales [Gay Star News]
But remember, blokes: Prince Harry is seemingly straight.
