Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 29
March 12, 2015
Science doesn't believe homosexuality is genetic, claims noted geneticist Maggie Gallagher
Actually, the most recent major study—and one featuring brothers, to boot—suggests that homosexuality does have some sort of a genetic link. But not so, demands omnipresent gay rights opponent Maggie Gallagher. According to the doyenne of marital discrimination, science is going the other way (and she uses politically-motivated Catholic researcher Paul McCugh, who filed an amicus brief against us in the Prop 8 case, as "proof"), all actions are choices, and those choices deserve moral reflec...
NOM liaison speaks for all civil rights pioneers; ignores major civil rights pioneer standing front and center
In an interview with Breitbart, Willie Owens, the extreme-tongued man who serves as the National Organization For Marriage's religious liaison and heads up an offshoot group of African-American pastors, yet again goes after President Obama for supposedly hijacking the Civil Rights Movement. Regarding the president's recent comments at a 50th anniversary commemoration in Selma, Alabama, wherein the chief executive equated the modern struggle for gay rights with past struggles like those faced...
March 11, 2015
WND columnist can't keep marriages or facts straight
WND columnist Jerry Newcombe writes the following about marriage equality and how it has advanced in this nation:
Why are the voters of this country so marginalized?
In a recent interview I did with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, he notes that even though same-sex marriage is now legal in some 37 states, only in three of those states was it voted in by the people. In two of them, it was voted by the legislatures, the people’s representatives. With all the rest of the states, it on...
Video: CBN gifts filmmakers with B-roll for their future documentaries on 21st century discrimination
Roy Moore insists gay people have a "sexual preference" and that marriage equality will destroy marriage itself. Oh, and his office proudly brandishes a framed biblical quote about justice and its basis. So of course the Christian Bible Network would want to do a glowing profile on the man who believes his personal religious condemnations should trump fair civil policy:
Embarrassing.
March 10, 2015
FRC Senior Fellow: Marriage equality rulings are new Dred Scott, new Jim Crow
Folks, we have another prominent conservative who seems to think that it's politically and morally wise to compare marriage equality's fair, reasoned, loving, court-tested, publicly supported expansion to some of the worst blights on civil rights history. Today it's the Family Research Council's Ken Blackwell who is doing the deed. Except this time, Blackwell is not only linking the US Supreme Court's theoretical marriage equality ruling to Dred Scott (as NOM cofounder Robert George did earli...
Photo: Activists at SC anti-marriage equality rally hold 'No Sodomy' & 'No Alternative Lifestyle' signs
Want even more proof that the anti–marriage equality movement is really a movement against homosexuality itself? Well check out the following photo. These are the pre-printed signs from a recent anti–marriage equality rally in Columbia, South Carolina:
No "sodomy"? No "alternative lifestyle"? Didn't realize we were still debating those things. Good to know, I guess.
And if you think this was some sort of fringe rally disconnected from state politics, you should know that multipl...
Senator Cruz vows to keep misprioritizing discrimination at expense of his party
At a church/state–marrying event in Iowa called "Pastors and Pews," US Senator Ted Cruz (Very Far R–TX) touted his exceedingly and egregiously anti-gay bona fides as a big selling point for his potential 2016 presidential candidacy. The Des Moines Register reports:
Cruz, R-Texas, described the ongoing shift toward legal recognition for gay couples as an "unrelenting assault on traditional marriage," and castigated judges who have struck down prohibitions for "ignoring their oaths, ignoring the...
March 9, 2015
What winning looks like: WSJ/NBC News poll puts marriage equality support at whopping 59%
A new poll, conducted by both a Democrat and Republican, is adding just a bit more ruin to the pro-discrimination movement's already crappy year:
Support for gay marriage has risen to an all-time high in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, reinforcing it as one of the fastest-moving changes in social attitudes of this generation.
The new survey found that 59% of Americans support allowing same-sex marriage, nearly double the 30% support reported in 2004.
FULL: Support for Gay Marriage...
Cartoonishly insistent NOM puts its insistence into cartoon
Period. They said period, folks:
[NOM]
Math teachers in thirty-seven states just gave NOM an F. Teachers in all fifty states will have the same freedom by next school year.
