Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 30

Matt Barber's overcompensating bravado again helps our side more than his own

I typically ignore Matt Barber these days because he's so very much losing a fight that he very much hoped to win, and at this point in the fight, I've vowed to ignore the fringe, politically disconnected voices who hold no cards. My reasoning is here, for those who missed it.

But I did want to show you Matt's latest for the conservative CNS News, because it's the sort of arrogance that is really driving the whole "religious freedom" (i.e. license to discriminate) fight that the social conserv...

Video: Disgusting Australian ad paints gay-headed families as harmful to kids

Following the National Organization For Marriage's United States playbook (and even a variation of NOM's red-and-blue-rings logo), Australia's pro-discrimination organization is going on the air with ads about civil marriage equality supposedly harming kids:

As a gay parent, ads like this one strike me as nothing short of an assault. And not just (or even primarily) an assault against me or my husband, but rather against our precious child, whose psyches groups like this one are trying to capt...

How far does the anti-gay right want to extend its vendor 'protections'?

This weekend was my nephew's Bar Mitzvah. The firstborn son of my husband's only brother and his wife, it was obvious that Andrew, Savannah, and I would have a lot of involvement in the weekend's events. And we did. We had a Torah portion to read, we had video messages to send, photos for which to pose, a candle to light, and much more. Many of these situations involved the services of for-hire vendors.

On a few different occasions, the DJ that my brother- and sister-in-law hired had to introd...

NOM cofounder: GOP should treat potential marriage equality ruling like Dred Scott decision

Add Princeton professor Robert George, the dogged anti-equality activist who is also the cofounder of the National Organization For Marriage and one of the authors of the failed Bush era Federal Marriage Amendment, to the list of conservatives pre-gaming the US Supreme Court's likely ruling in favor of civil marriage equality by directly comparing it to one of the most infamous decisions of all time:

"Now we face the prospect of yet another Dred Scott-type decision—this time on the question of...

Can you all please stop offending Senator Paul with your vows of committed love?!

In an interview with Fox News, unannounced-but-obvious Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul claimed that marriage equality offends him:

“I’m for traditional marriage. I think marriage is between a man and a woman. Ultimately, we could have fixed this a long time ago if we just allowed contracts between adults. We didn’t have to call it marriage, which offends myself and a lot of people."

Rand Paul: Calling Same-Sex Unions 'Marriage' Really 'Offends' Him and Others [Towle]

Such myopia from...

I'm pretty sure Maggie Gallagher just called the National Org. For Marriage ineffective

Maggie Gallagher, cofounder of the National Organization For Marriage and person most fully associated with the 21st century's fight against marriage equality, on her movement and its flaws:

Only Dr. Carson knows why he chose to apologize [ed. note: apology here; backstory here]. But this is a significant concession on his part substantively on marriage. But it is also true the Christian Right has not yet settled on a realistic legislative objective it wants candidates to support. Nor has it i...

379 companies that want their logos paired with uplifting music in inevitable marriage (in)equality documentaries

Major players from the world of sports, communications, banking, fashion, travel, pharmaceutical, food, entertainment, and more. The following three hundred seventy-nine companies have joined an amicus brief calling on the United States Supreme Court to grant the freedom to marry to all fifty states once and for all:

A.L. Nella & Company, LLP, CPAs

A.T. Kearney

Aardema Whitelaw, PLLC

Acacia Home LLC*

Accenture

Aetna Inc.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. AJ Leo Electric and Solar Akamai Technologies...

NOM affiliate group to give Roy Moore a 'Letter from Birmingham Jail Award'

"Letter From Birmingham Jail" is of course a reference to Martin Luther King and his nonviolent resistance to the brute racism in America of the mid twentieth century. But how, and to whom, does the Coalition of African-American Pastors, an affiliate group of the National Organization For Marriage, misapply that sentiment? See for yourself:

Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) Honors Justice Roy Moore for His Principled Stand for Marriage



Coalition of African American Pastors Will Pres...

Save the Date: SCOTUS to hear history-making marriage cases on April 28

We knew it was going to be April, but today we learn that Tuesday, the 28th will be the day the US Supreme Court hears the the four consolidated cases that could very well bring marriage equality to all fifty states:

Incidentally, it's also National Kiss Your Mate Day. Which is good because anti-gay groups are going to want to give their long-held mate, wanton discrimination, a long kiss goodbye.

Wall Street's biggest put stock in equal bonds

A wise investment:

New York (CNN)Wall Street's leading banks have signed a "friend of the court" brief pressing the Supreme Court to back same-sex marriage.



Major financial firms including AIG, Bank of America, BlackRock, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs JPMorgan, UBS and Wells Fargo signed the brief that will be filed on Thursday.

FULL: Wall Street pushes SCOTUS on gay marriage [CNN Money]