Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 296
February 26, 2013
Big shocker—gays 'offend God' group supporting NOM's marriage march
On its website, the TFP Student Action group admits that it sees us as "changeable" and that it believes our very nature offends God
10 Reasons Why Homosexual “Marriage” is Harmful and Must be Opposed [TFP]
So what is the obviously animus-driven group's new project? Why encouraging turnout for the National Organization For Marriage's upcoming "march for marriage," natch:
[TFP (*note that the "10 Reasons…" doc appears as a resource on the march promotional page)]
NOM has promoted TFP's activities...
If you're going to DC to counter NOM's marriage march…
…you should be on guard for people who will try to provoke you into doing something dumb. Here is NOM's Communications Director, Thomas Peters, saying that he plans to take a page out of the Tea Party handbook and get his opposition on film, followed by host Al Kresta connecting the idea to his own work with the beyond incendiary Operation Rescue group:
[SOURCE: Kresta In The Afternoon, 2/22/13]
Of course they are going to try to "catch us" on video. After all, on March 26, 2012—a year, to the...
Illinois Family Institute prez determined to connect 'ex-gays' to state marriage debate
For weeks now, I've been showing you how fully the Illinois Family Institute and its head, David Smith, has connected the idea of reparative therapy (i.e. "praying away the gay") to his organization's supposed cause of "marriage protection." Here's the latest, posted this AM:
Linda Jernigan is the professional "ex-gay" who routinely blames Satan for causing homosexuality, loves to claim that gays need to be inebriated in order to have sex, and equates homosexuality from everything to drugs and...
February 25, 2013
NOM co-opts beer-loving Obama endorser for its discriminatory march
Actor Jonathan Goldsmith endorsed President Obama and said of his decision, "I don't want to go back…I want to go forward." NOM endorsed Mitt Romney and would like nothing better for this country to go back, particularly when it comes to the increasing legalization of marriage for same-sex couples.
Nevertheless, NOM is using the character that made Jonathan Goldsmith famous, that of Dos Equis' "most interesting man in the world" pitchman, to promote its upcoming march for marriage. Someone at...
Video: Bryan Fischer pretends 'Lawrence vs. Texas' never happened
Americans actually do have every right to engage in what Bryan Fischer refers to as "sodomy." The Supreme Court made this perfectly clear.
But in Bryan Fischer's world, the Lawrence vs. texas decision is non-binding because it didn't come from God:
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Antonin Scalia's minority dissent is what makes something perfectly clear. Oh Bryan, buddy, please do your listeners a favor and brush up on the judiciary before your upcoming losses on DOMA and Prop 8.
From 'Milk' to 'Mixner'
I'm happy to know and call David Mixner a friend. I'm even happier that more people will soon know David's story, which spans both the decades and the peace-centered issues.
Paper magazine talks to Nigel Barker about his planned biopic of the living legend:
PAPER: You're working on a film about David Mixner who's obviously had an unbelievable life. The man publicly and loudly called out Bill Clinton on not repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell." He arranged an Anti-Vietnam protest that was so large t...
Coalition of African-American pastors giving NOM prez an honorary degree; no B.S.
As you surely remember, the National Organization For Marriage has a strategy statement that admits its intent to "drive a wedge" and "fan the hostility" between black and gay voters:
In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group Looked To Divide Gays, Blacks [BuzzFeed]
Brian Brown was the president of NOM when these documents were written. Every year, we see more and more signs of this astoundingly cynical strategy's implementation.
Yet despite that cold reality, the anti-gay Coalition of Afric...
Other options dwindling, NOM morphs into discriminatory travel agency
NOM's latest attempt to drum up support for its pro-discrimination march outside the Supreme Court building:
Incidentally, if you want to throw your tax-paying gay neighbors and their families under the bus (metaphorically, of course), contact this very same email address.
IFI video: We don't want 'sin' to be 'normalized or seem right'
Long ago, I declared the Illinois Family Institute to be the most incendiary of any of the statewide opposition groups, mostly because of the organization's full-on embrace of personal hostility for homosexuality (as opposed to just marriage equality). Here now is another glimpse into what this org. is really fighting, delivered by an official IFI video:
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"Struggling with sin does not mean that the answer is to make sin normalized or seem right"? This is not langua...
