Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 268
April 24, 2013
Delaware Family Policy Council to supporters: Equality activists don't understand, mind God
The following instructions come from an information sheet that the anti-equality Delaware Family Policy Council provided to attendees who showed up at the state Capitol to support their discriminatory position:
[Delaware Family Policy Council]
Sure, DFPC. The reason why you want supporters to use only your phrases is because the opposition is incapable of understanding and not because you know that your side has a penchant for using really hostile language when left to its own imagination. Uh h...
FRC claims homosexuality exposes boys 'to predatory behavior'; says gays are 'morally aberrant to God'
Rob Schwarzwalder is one of the Family Research Council's point men on keeping the Boy Scouts discriminatory. Yesterday on Catholic radio, he admitted that his work is driven by his belief that we gay men are immoral predators who are aberrant to God:
"homosexuality has to do with conduct. It has to do with exposing boys to predatory situations"
"They want full affirmation of a lifestyle that Christians and Jews have always believed is morally aberrant to God…we cannot approve something that we...
Audio: RI anti-equality activist claims gay are going to jail families, kill priests, exterminate citizens (#RI4M)
The Drew Mariani Show is a very popular Catholic radio program on which movement conservatives make regular appearances. Yesterday, it played host to something that even the host had to (kind of) stand against:
[SOURCE: Drew Mariani Show]
I say he kind of stood against it because rather than just come out fully against Chris' words, Drew Mariani still used his own Nazi parallels and said (@ 4:39) that he doesn't "think Chris is too far off." He couldn't even muster a full repudiation of the ide...
April 23, 2013
Audio: How to beat back years of far-right lies in thirteen informative minutes
Delaware state Rep. Melanie George Smith is my new hero. She's about to become yours as well
RI Senate Judiciary Committee advances marriage equality; 7–4 vote
On to the full Senate, perhaps as soon as tomorrow!!!
Times. Changing. History. Yay.
Flashback: The time Delaware's anti-equality org admitted it supports 'ex-gay' junk science
Nicole Theis, president of the Delaware Family Policy Council, isn't so open about her support for "ex-gay" junk science these days. She surely wasn't open about it in the Op-Ed she placed in the local media cycle this morning. She makes her case all about marriage, not LGBT people.
Back in 2011, however, I stumbled on a much more loose-lipped Theis. Back then, she and deputy Jordan Warfel were all about pushing groups like NARTH in order to convince folks who were engaged on their Facebook pa...
Leading #RI4M opponent: Supportive GOP senators are 'sign of Apocalypse,' are removing God from their side
Kara Russo Young is one of Rhode Island's most visible opponents of marriage equality, showing up at every hearing to have her say against both same-sex marriages and the gay people who inhabit them. She is also one of the people behind those truly shocking videos that the National Organization For Marriage of Rhode Island recently posted (and then scrubbed when I brought them to light).
This is what Ms Young saying about the GOP senators who have joined forces in favor of marriage equality:
[K...
AFA's top spokesman makes far-right animus perfectly clear
And now this from American Family Association's top voice and regular host to leading GOP figures:
Well I gotta disagree with your linkage, B Dog. However, we *definitely* should not discriminate against a political movement seemingly hellbent on screwing itself (i.e. yours).
Focus on the Family bears false witness against me, countless others; is a hypocritical organization for which I hold no respect
Remember last week when Focus on the Family deleted my comment and then blocked me from further comments simply because I noted something that appears on the organization's main website?
Yeah, well I was far from alone. Here's just a small sampling of other Facebook users who left perfectly fair pushback and then saw their attempt at dialogue promptly scrubbed away:
Those are just the ones I caught in the ten minutes or so that I monitored the...
