Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 231
July 17, 2013
NOM cites five 'wins' (four of which they ultimately lost)
The delusions are become more intense by the day.
Check out the following, which comes from NOM's latest fundraising blast. The "I" is president Brian Brown:
Our opponents and those in the biased media say, "It's inevitable. You can't win. Give up…"
I couldn't disagree more!
In 2008, I heard the same things when we worked on Prop 8 in California…and we WON!
In 2009, I heard the same things when we worked on Question 1 in Maine…and we WON!
In 2010, I heard the same things when we worked in Iowa to o...
Peter LaBarbera to Christians: Pray to dissolve Dan Savage's family, orientation
Nah, no need to call you "crazy," Pete. We'll just let your hobbies speak for themselves.
PA: Even the Republican who signed marriage ban into law now opposes marriage bans
The National Organization For Marriage and its state ally, the Pennsylvania Family Institute, are on the warpath against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane because of the AG's decision to not defend the state Defense of Marriage Act, a law that she finds unconstitutional. Kane has every right to make this decision under the Commonwealth Attorneys Act of 1980, which specifies that “The Attorney General may, upon determining that it is more efficient or otherwise is in the best interes...
July 16, 2013
Two GLAAD CAP additions: Robert Oscar Lopez, Ryan T. Anderson
Both have become ubiquitous on the "protect marriage" scene, with the National Organization For Marriage particularly eager to promote their views. So it's best we know what the Heritage Foundation's Ryan T. Anderson and conservative commentator Robert Oscar Lopez have said about LGBT people.
Anderson:
-- Penned column calling for gays to be chaste: "From the premise that homosexual characteristics are 'determined,' many make the unwarranted leap of asserting the moral legitimacy of homosexual...
And now Maggie Gallagher is defending 'ex-gay' therapy
Framing the organization as designed to merely "help" gay Jews, National Organization For Marriage co-founder Maggie Gallagher is now defending the "ex-gay" group JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing):
Chuck Limandri, my old friend from the Carrie Prejean, Prop 8 fights, is a heckuva a lawyer and one brave man. He’s taking on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s massive legal machine to defend the right of Jewish gay people to seek help.
Chuck Limandri vs. the SPLC [NRO]
Not sure why I...
Illinois' 'protect marriage' group continues to admit true agenda: 'changing' gay people (#il4m #morethanmarriage)
This whole year I've been telling you that the Illinois Family Institute is unlike other statewide "pro-family" groups in that the folks who mind the shop will not allow their organization to be guided by more pragmatic gatekeepers like NOM or Frank Schubert. The IFI is proudly anti-LGBT in every way, and the IFI's top staffers (David Smith and Laurie Higgins chief among them) are aggressively in support of the scientifically discredited and exceedingly offensive idea that gays can and should...
Hey kids, super cool Values Voter Summit will teach you how to discriminate (*with free pizza!)
Peter Sprigg, a man who has said he'd prefer to "export" gays from the United States and has supported criminal sanctions for homosexuality (that and more here), and Ryan Anderson, a young person who claims the TV show Glee has corrupted our youth, will lead a session at this autumn's's Values Voter Summit (Oct. 11–13). Here are the details, via the VV Summit's host, Family Research Council:
So basically, they are saying they will serve up empty calories. Oh, and there will be pizza, too.
No wo...
July 15, 2013
Rick Warren takes another obvious swipe at marriage equality
The anti-LGBT pastor gloms onto two silly and essentially toothless talking points that the anti-equality crowd is fond of using:
He went on to add, "Platitude, platitude, platitude. Placating bromide and pandering cliché. God."
*RELATED: Um, actually there *is* a right side of history; obviously [G-A-Y]
