Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 27

Ha! NOM uses ad for a desk to represent president's real office

This is the header from the National Organization For Marriage's latest action alert:

[NOM]

Cook office! Sleek. Modern. With the times.

Only thing? It's not Brian's office. Although it could be if he wants to pay the Executive Desk Company they nearly four thousand dollars they are asking in the ad from which NOM grabbed this graphic:

SOURCE: EDeskCo.com

I mean, I know times must be hard over there at NOM. But I would presume Brian at least still has furniture in his office. Right?

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Idaho House makes a mockery of legislature, targets judiciary

If you can't beat 'em, just end their careers:

IDAHO: House Votes To Impeach Any Judge That Rules For Same-Sex Marriage [J.M.G.]

If this were to pass into law, there is no way it could hold up under legal scrutiny. You can't just impeach judges because they make a constitutionally sound decision with which you and your faith-based fervor personally disagree. And in fact, keep such fervor off of the fair application of the law—and particularly when it applies to minority populations who hav...

Org that infamously vowed to 'drive wedge between gays and blacks' equates marriage rulings with slavery

I've lost count of how many social conservative commentators, many of whom are clearly working off of some sort of coordinated intra-movement script (yes, they have those), have made the truly heinous logic leap of connecting the infamous Dred Scott decision with the US Supreme Court's potential ruling granting fifty-state marriage equality (see here and here and here). But somehow the National Organization For Marriage's attempt to connect the expansion of freedom for a minority population...

NOM cofounder Maggie Gallagher proposes new org: NORL

Claiming that she and her "traditional marriage" supporters are a minority group and bemoaning that "big business" is coming out strongly against the so-called "religious liberty" (i.e. license to discriminate) bills that are emerging in conservative-led legislatures across the nation, National Organization For Marriage cofounder Maggie Gallagher is now saying that her team needs to start a new National Organization For Religious Liberty. Explains Maggie:

We need a national organization th...

Veteran Tony Perkins shows shocking disrespect for war and its human toll

Wes Modder's job is on the line after Naval Nuclear Power Training Command students complained about the chaplain's insistence that a student who had premarital sex was “shaming herself in the eyes of God” and his contention that he can “save” gay people, to name just two of his alleged offenses. Which, in the glib-for-the-sake-of-political-expediency world of Tony Perkins, means Modder is "under some of the heaviest fire" of anyone serving in our armed forces:

In the Navy, it's full-steam...

Video: Dolce & Gabbana attempt to rollback comments; 'We love gay couple. We love gay adoption. We love everything.'

In a CNN exclusive, the designer pair (and particularly Gabbana) attempt to get beyond the controversy that they totally and inexplicably drummed up themselves. They now kind of support gay parents but are still traditional. IVF is fine, or maybe still not. Oh, and they chose the wrong words but don't understand why gay parents are pissed. Or something.

Here's the clip and text link:

CNN Exclusive: Dolce & Gabbana: We don't judge on IVF [CNN]

From the heart—or from the PR department?

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If you support adoption but oppose same-sex adoption, the reason is animus

In the wake of the Dolce & Gabanna fiasco, I keep seeing social conservatives highlight one comment in particular:

Now, there are obviously many wonderful and viable paths to parenthood for gay people. But for the purpose of this post, let's accept that these rabid social conservatives, like Mr. Dolce, are opposed to surrogacy/IVF. Not agree with it, obviously, but let's acknowledge that it's how they feel. They think it's wrong. Okay.

But that still leaves adoption in the picture, which...

Presbyterians officially back marriages for gay and lesbyterians

NY Times:

After three decades of debate over its stance on homosexuality, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Tuesday to change the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution to include same-sex marriage.
FULL: Presbyterians Give Final Approval for Same-Sex Marriage [NYT]

Let's see how much the "religious freedom" crowd respects this.

Psst, NOM—your stock photo supplier, like your country, accommodates gay marriages

The National Organization For Marriage is up with another one of their pithy photo memes that position opposite-sex unions above all others:

[NOM]

Funny thing though? If you go to the purchase page of NOM's stock photo supplier, you don't have to look far—just three pics down and one turn to the left—to find that their creative visionary is quite comfortable with including same-sex couples as well:

ferdiperdozniy's protfolio [iStockPhoto]

Aren't they always saying that we have to respe...

Focus on the Family enters 40 days of prayer for marriage discrimination

Coupled with the bald faced lie that civil marriage equality strips Christians of their First Amendment protections (selling a cake you claim to sell for profit is not an act of prayer, actually), Focus on the Family's action arm (clumsily called Citizenlink) has directed supporters to enter into a forty-day proper period geared toward civil discrimination against their gay and lesbian neighbor:

[Focus on the Family's Citizenlink]

Well, one must find a way to fill his or her spring. As fo...