Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 252

'When we talk about Regnerus, I completely dismiss the study. It’s over. He has been disgraced.'

In an explosive new interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a member of the editorial board of the paper that published the flawed hit piece that is the Regnerus Study pokes more holes in the "research" and the anti-LGBT agenda behind it. Full interview at link:

Darren Sherkat, professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University and a member of the editorial board of Social Science Research , was tapped by journal editor [James] Wright to conduct an audit of the process of publishing...

Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber: Gays 'purchase children'; 'like having little pets or something'

A man so fully known for his daily denigrations of LGBT must keep the incendiary quote bank filled, lest someone else come and take his place in the annals of misguided civil rights history. So that being his burden, Matt Barber is now saying this (clip cued to right place):

Right. We just put the litter box in the corner and try to remember to feed our pet children at least twice a day. You're totally on to us, Matthew.

But of course we always remember to teach our pet children to not pee and...

NOM owns its real cause: It's personal, not just policy

I couldn't help but notice the first line of this new NOM blast:

[NOM]

Usually NOM is pretty clear about wanting to defeat a bill rather than a person. But this time? They are coming right out and saying it: they want "to defeat gay-marriage activists in Illinois." As in people. As in those who actually stand to lose something in this debate.

We've always known that, for NOM, this whole thing is largely a game. More and more, we're learning that they're out to harm the players too.

NOM EXPOSED: NOM’s Comm. Director pushes prayer calling homosexuality a ‘destructive deception’

NOM’s Comm. Director pushes prayer, action calling homosexuality a ‘destructive deception’[NOM Exposed]

Video: Anti-equality pastors link discriminatory cause to nobility of MLK, others

Pastors who have spent the past decade or more trying to discriminate against us in civil law are actually the ones striving to "preserve liberty." So claims this latest drip from the well of egregious spin:

I don't think there has ever been a political movement quite like our opposition's. Sure, there have been many people on the wrong side of various fights, but these guys (and I say "guys" quite pointedly, because 98% of them are) are unique in their jaw-dropping willingness to shirk any an...

NOM claims new hero: NFLer who doesn't 'believe in' my marriage, as if it's Santa Claus or something

It's always

Um, no Mr. Peterson—you're biased against them. If you were biased toward your gay relatives, you'd support their basic civil rights.

Illinois' chief 'family' group posts meme calling homosexuality 'dishonorable,' 'shameless'

With only four days left in the legislative session, the Illinois Family Institute is ratcheting up the denigration:

[IFI's Facebook page]

Not a huge surprise, since the Illinois Family Institute is one of most nakedly animus-driven state policy group on the map. But it's insightful, nonetheless.

We're trying to have a conversation about civil rights and whether or not they should be granted to certain kinds of taxpayers, irrespective of varying religious opinion. Meanwhile our opposition only w...

Video: Just another one of those totally measured think pieces calling POTUS a closeted gay commie Nazi (who might've had someone murdered)

He may be the cowboy, but in Joe Salvatorio's script, it's the "commie" and "Nazi" President Obama who is secretly hanging out on Brokeback Mountain. Giddyup:

You can't get commentary like that on Meet The Press.

Basically if we show up, Mychal Massie goes home; bye.

When sexual orientation stopped being a reason for kicking a soldier out of the armed forces, conservative columnist Mychal Massie stopped supporting our military:

Obviously, we cannot form another military, but we don’t have to volunteer, nor do we have to re-up when our tours of service are over. I believe the military would get the message very quickly that our Armed Forces are not intended to become a homosexual Club Med if they were to find that enlistment and re-enlistment numbers were s...

Audio: TX Gov. Rick Perry says 'their maker' will hold Boy Scouts execs in account

Add Texas' Republican Governor to the list of commentators warning Boy Scout officials about their eternal futures:

[SOURCE: Washington Watch w/ Tony Perkins; 5/24/13]

Is there any debate tactic any weaker than this? I mean, threatening mortals with afterlife retribution—isn't that kind of weak? Perhaps even weaker than this…