Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 241
June 23, 2013
This weekend: Summer began, the days got longer, the AFA told folks to pray for your sodomite soul
While some of us were enjoying garage sales, birthday parties, and joyous times with our spouses, the American Family Association was busy telling our neighbors that some of us are "enslaved by homosexuality" and need to be both legally denied and "changed." Because one must have hobbies, after all:
June 21, 2013
FRC prays against marriage, 'open homosexuality' in military, ENDA, and inclusive immigration reform; when will they sleep?
The week's round of "prayer targets" is a real discrimin-apalooza. In separate calls to prayerful action, the Family Research Council calls for "moral sanity" on marriage, attacks Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, misrepresents and shuns the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, and writes off inclusive immigration reform as granting "special rights" to same-sex couples:
Kids, seriously—learn some concision! Just say "the FRC does not believe gay people are deserving of equal human worth, recognition,...
Mickey's favorite channel to feature family headed by two Minnies
A very positive development for LGBT visibility:
A terrific piece of news today: The Disney Channel has announced that an episode of its children’s series Good Luck Charlie will feature a family with two moms—the first time a show on the channel has done so.
See more at: Disney Channel Show to Feature Two-Mom Family [Mombian]
In a related story, the Christian Bible Network will continue to feature families headed by two moms—in grainy, black-and-white B-roll with ominous background music playin...
NOM now a Tea Party group?
Determined to align himself and his organization with the far right and only the far right, the president of the clearly partisan National Organization For Marriage, Brian Brown, is now boasting about his recent appearance at a Tea Party rally:
Whatever. While Brian's dumping tea, we'll toast our champagne glasses to yet another marriage victory that NOM's political miscalculations helped us win.
NOM = NO Moderates: Anti-gay org vows to oust another pro-equality Republican
No one knows if Sen. Lisa Murkowski will even run again in 2016. But if she does, the National Organization For Marriage is ready to publicly shame the Alaska Republican for standing with the growing number of Americans who support civil marriage equality:
"Senator Murkowski has sealed her political fate. Alaskans voted by an overwhelming majority (68%-32%) to protect marriage in their Constitution when given the opportunity, and an even stronger majority of Republicans in Alaska supported th...
Pro-discrimination coalition vs. Supreme Court's proper role, church/state separation, increasing public opinion, basic fairness
Writing off same-sex couples as being "those who are incapable of marriage" and predicting that marriage equality will bring our society into anarchy, a large collection of Christian conservatives have released a joint statement basically vowing to defy any positive Supreme Court ruling that comes down in favor of civil equality. A snip and link to full statement:
This claim of the existence of such a Natural Moral Law is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built. It is the...
June 20, 2013
On Alan Chambers' big announcement
Alan Chambers, longtime president of Exodus International, has announced that the "ex-gay" ministry is closing its doors. This is not news to me. In fact, I've known about this for months.
Since January of this year, Alan and I have been chatting about everything that is playing out now. I knew he was very disenchanted with his movement, that he was ready to step up and repudiate the harms he has caused and/or emboldened, and that he saw a need to end the operation with which his professional...
NOM gets jumpstart on Museum of Unfortunate Civil Rights History; Anti-gay org. archives its discriminatory photo memes
If you've ever had the impulse to see all of the ways the National Organization For Marriage has visually denigrated our families over the past few years, you're totally in luck. NOM has launched a Pinterest page to serve as a storehouse for all of their anti-gay photo memes:
A handy resource for whenever the world seems way too filled with artful beauty. You can just pop over to NOM's Pinterest and remind yourself of the paid professionals who are dedicating their working days t...
June 19, 2013
Right side of history nabs another right wing politico
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joins Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) in the GOP-Senators-who-support-marriage-equality caucus:
Lisa Murkowski Backs Gay Marriage [HuffPo]
Your early-ish choice to step up and be counted is both noted and appreciated, Senator. As as is your reluctance, every other GOP Senator.
