Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 254
May 23, 2013
New Jersey's leading 'family' group posts truly nasty video equating gays with adulterers, alcoholics
Many of you have seen the following video, produced by far-far-far-right anti-gay figure Janet Folger Porter:
Well guess who is now promoting and defending this clip? That would be none other than the New Jersey Family Policy Council, the organization leading the fight to stop marriage equality in the Garden State:
SOURCE: NJFPC's Facebook page
I love when they attempt to "explain" the supposed nuance. Even better if/when they think this is my first time at the rodeo, believing I'm just going to...
A #BoyScouts dialogue with Manhattan Declaration's Exec. Director
I actually kind of like chatting with Manhattan Declaration Executive Director, NOM march speaker, and Sam Brownback son-in-law Eric Teetsel, because I find him well mannered, respectful, and open to frank discussion. But he's also wrong:
Um, actually there *is* a right side of history; obviously
This is just a silly thing to say:
"It’s not accurate to say the times have relegated the defense of marriage to the geriatric ward. And there’s no such thing as being on the “right” or “wrong” side of history. There’s only being on the right or wrong side of truth."
—Ryan Anderson and Andrew Walker, both of the anti-gay Heritage Foundation, writing for Citizen, the magazine of the anti-gay Focus on Family
It's one of those things that anti-LGBT people tells themselves in order to feel good abou...
Discriminación!
Who says the Catholic Church is no longer engaged in effective outreach?
[US Conference of Catholic Bishops (with link to the Spanish bulletin)]
Because why should English be the only language that is bastardized with code words that mask the discriminatory reality behind nice-sounding terms like "tradition" and "values"?
New ad: One of America's most hostile anti-gay groups asks BSA Delegates to make horrible mistake
The Family Research Council, an organization whose leaders have supported criminal sanctions for gay people, claimed "it's a fact" that homosexuality leads to "eternal damnation," and said gays are "pawns in the hands of their malevolent master" the Devil (to name just a few FRC slights), is running a new ad in this morning's Dallas Morning News telling the Boys Scouts of America why they should support FRC's radical agenda rather than the peaceful inclusion of gay minors:
May 22, 2013
Boy Scouts president cuts through the noise: 'Let in gay boys'
A huge statement just hours before delegates are scheduled to vote:
Boy Scouts president: Let in gay boys [USA TODAY]
Video: GOP Congressman from Oklahoma attacks 'intolerance' of supporting gay boys in khaki
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK1):
Equal #BoyScout opponents don't want to hear how anti-gay their allies are
The "On My Honor" coalition is proudly touting the backing of the American Family Association, once of the most legitimately hostile anti-LGBT groups working today. So since it is the day before the big vote, I thought I'd give them some pragmatic advice:
My comment was deleted.
Seconds later, another Facebooker mirrored my comment and posted it with his own Eagle Scout identification:
His comment has been deleted.
Fair enough. But there's no honor in forcible ec...
Maggie doesn't want us treated cruelly, just as less 'normative' than heterosexuals
"I personally still cherish the hope that we can as a society eliminate cruel homophobia without jettisoning heteronormativity — which is the need for social norms and institutions to be oriented strongly around the problem and the blessing that sex between men and women makes babies."
—Maggie Gallagher
Heteronormativity is a fallacy that never was. Cruel homophobia is a manifestation that stems from the insistence that heteronormativity both is and should be.
When looking back on her decades of...
