Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 263
May 2, 2013
NOM's 'anti-defamation' spokesperson: Christians are supposed 'to be belligerent'
Damian Goddard, the fired sportscaster cum anti-LGBT activist who the National Organization For Marriage chose to lead its "Marriage Anti-defamation Alliance," on how Christians are support to behave against "enemy combatants to the culture":
So wait—we are supposedly "defaming" Goddard and NOM through our equal marriage rights and their fair implementation, but the "anti-defamation" front man is directly telling his followers that they are supposed to be belligerent? That's either stunningly...
FRC: God punishing us with war, terrorism, 'homosexualized politics'
The coarsening of the far-right rhetoric continues:
The scourge presently upon our nation - wars, devastating weather, acts of terrorism, confusion and failure among our government leaders, spiritual confusion in many of our churches, decimation of the family, economic decline, government oppression, advancing socialism, government promoted and protected abortion, homosexualized politics, etc., are all the fruits and consequences of individual and collective sin and a departure from the God of...
May 1, 2013
Delaware Senate Exec. Committee advances marriage equality; 4–2
On to the full Senate, likely tomorrow!
Forward.
Audio: 'Consider yourself warned'—Delaware anti-equality testifier condemns gays, supporters #DE4M
From this afternoon's Senate Exec. Committee hearing:
Video: Nasty anti-gay video equates lesbian moms with cigarettes, junk science with credible research
This seems to be another production of fringe activist Janet Folger Porter:
Audio: Power 105 hosts aren't buying Chris Broussard's attempt to have it both ways
He says that gay people "aren't born that way" and have sinful lifestyles into which they "fall." But hey, he's friends with LZ Granderson despite that fellow sportscaster's gay "lifestyle," so there's no way he's anti-gay.
That's the latest spin from ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard, which these Power 105 radio hosts simply are not buying. At all:
Delaware's leading 'protect marriage' group backs claim that gays are in 'open rebellion to God'
By now, you probably know that ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard went on TV and said that openly gay NBA player Jason Collins is "in open rebellion to God" simple because he is gay. And while that may be a view that some conservative Christians hold, it's probably not the view that you want to state if you are the leading policy group opposing civil marriage equality in your state and you have a crucial vote coming up in your legislature today. After all, denying personal animus is key to the...
