Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 25
March 31, 2015
#RFRA and a movement that shirks responsibility (almost) as much as it shirks equality
The Indiana "religious freedom" (i.e. license-to-discriminate) fight has revealed a few key things. One, it shows how much this tide has turned and where America and its power sources are coming down on LGBT discrimination. Two, it has reinforced how powerful a people can be when we come together and refuse to accept injustice as status quo. Three, it's yet again proven the efficacy of social media in effecting change. And four, it has reminded us that there will be a fight beyond marriage,...
Audio: Limbaugh admits #RFRA fight is about same-sex marriage; links homosexuality to bestiality
Keep talking, conservatives. I seriously though I'd have to pay you all to be so unwittingly helpful to our side:
Video: I can't fathom invoking concentration camps in my political discourse. But Glenn Beck on the other hand...
It's all fun and games until gay people and our allies start sending others to concentration camps. Or something:
If you're going to a Passover seder this weekend, look for the oldest relative at the table and ask them how they feel about such a negligent comparison.
Get a load of this double-talk from the Family Research Council #RFRA #Indiana
I'm not sure what, exactly, Tony Perkins and his friends at the Family Research Council think cakes and flowers and photography packages are. But apparently they don't believe them to be "non-religious goods or services" since they claim that RFRAs are not intended or even capable of denying such services, in one breath, while making the case that business owners *should* be able to deny such services in every other breath.
Check out this spin:
“The governor addressed the complete falseho...
March 29, 2015
Man who insinuated it's better to be thrown into sea than support homosexuality attended #SB101 signing ceremony
Micah Clark, the head of the American Family Association of Indiana, once used a biblical admonishment against the Boy Scouts, suggesting that it would be better to be drowned than to lead a youth into "treatable, changeable" homosexuality:
This very same Micah Clark, along with other anti-gay leaders like Curt Smith and Eric Miller, were standing right behind Indiana governor Mike Pence (R) when he signed Indiana's extremely controversial license-to-discriminate bill during a closed-door...
March 27, 2015
Considering vast (and frankly odd) amount of time he spends talking about us, no wonder Tony Perkins thinks we're 'special'
Family Research Council's exceedingly anti-gay president offers this take on Indiana's license-to-discriminate law:
[Tony Perkins]
Bully. Their whole movement is built around bullying. The license-to-discriminate bills, like all anti-LGBT policies, constitute bullying through actions. But even this tweet, with its oft-repeated canard, is a form of bullying in which Perkins changes words in order to put those pesky gays in their place. "STOP SQUIRMING AND LET ME DIMINISH YOUR RELATIONSHIP...
FRC keeps lying about where majority of Americans stand on marriage equality
Reacting to the news that eleven Republican US Senators voted in favor of a measure that ensures Social Security and veterans benefits to same-sex couples regardless of whether or not their state has marriage equality, exceedingly anti-gay Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says the following:
"It was disappointing to see eleven GOP Senators and moderate Democrats join with the Obama Administration by approving the Schatz amendment that usurps state laws the people passed to uph...
Audio: Indiana restaurant owner openly discriminates against gays, glad to have added protection to do so
In the wake of Indiana passing a particularly strident version of a license-to-discriminate bill, this clip is going viral:
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Keep talking, kiddos. The wrong side of history always sounds the worst when it's feeling the most emboldened.
Indiana legislature, Gov. Pence awaken a fierce, powerful, anti-discrimination giant
I started beating the drum about "religious freedom" laws relatively early. I've mentioned on here before how, in or around the summer of 2012, I got hold of an intercepted document in which a collection of anti-LGBT groups were "explaining" why their movement needed to take on this push as a sort of Phase Two of their marriage fight. It was only a few months later that I saw them beating the drum in state after state, reconfirming just how concerted, on-message, and vicious the other side c...
