Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 309
January 30, 2013
A new video, NOM? Yeah? That's what you're going with?
That old fibbing factory about all things great and small, the National Organization For Marriage, is pushing a "new Marriage Anti-Defamation" Alliance video starring a Canadian father who wants the "right" to be forewarned and to remove his children from the public school day whenever certain subjects are taught. NOM Framed it as new:
[NOM]
Only thing? This video isn't new. The portions NOM chose to use might be different, but this is the very same interview that the failed Minnesota For Marri...
And just like that, Super Bowl XLVII gets its anti-gay angle
Take it away, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver:
"I don't do the gay guys man," said Culliver, whose Niners play the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. "I don't do that. No, we don't got no gay people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do.
Report: Niners CB says openly gay players would not be welcomed on the team [Yahoo! Sports]
Culliver went on to say that any gay player should come out ten years after he leaves the league.
So to recap: A player from America's most LGBT-fri...
Are they *REALLY* comparing planned anti-gay protest to 1963 march on Washington?!
I can't 100% place the image, but based on crowd size and geography, I'm pretty sure that the graphic in this promotion for NOM's upcoming "marriage marriage" against equality…
…is an image from 1963's historic march featuring Dr. King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. It seems to be a cropped variation of this widely distributed pic:
I mean, really? They are seriously going to go there? Because if they are planning on equating their lil' march against civil marriage rights for certain kinds...
Stop what you're doing and leave four messages for Boy Scouts of America (please RT and reblog)
With a vote looming on a crucial matter of equality, the Boy Scouts of America need to hear from us. You have four assignments:
(1) Phone: 1-972-580-2330. They will ask if you are for or against a change in the policy. Remember, those of us on the side of fairness are FOR a change.
(2) E-mail: NationalSupportCenter@Scouting.org (**Tony Perkins is also telling his supporters to email Chief Executive Wayne Brock at Wayne.Brock@Scouting.org, so feel free to do that as well)
(3) Leave a supportive c...
Chief opponent of marriage equality in Illinois: Gays have 'profound disrespect for God and for themselves'
Laurie Higgins is a senior figure with the Illinois Family Institute and the person who has penned many of that org's policy documents opposing marriage equality in the state. Today, Laurie continues to show (a) why the IFI is one of the few state groups to make the Southern Poverty Law Center's anti-gay list and (b) why no Illinois legislator should believe that the IFI is focused only on marriage policy.
Laurie writes:
There exist objective truths regarding sexual morality, truths which if vi...
NOM gets some company for its 3/26 SCOTUS march
Westboro Baptist Church, fresh off its amicus brief telling the Supreme Court to oppose marriage equality so that God doesn't destroy the nation, plans to demonstrate outside of the SCOTUS building on March 26—the same day and time that the National Organization For Marriage will hold its "marriage march." Church spokesperson Shirley Phelps-Roper tells me:
Let me say right off the bat that I am not directly equating NOM with WBC. I do not believe they are one and the same and I would never say...
January 29, 2013
Report: Discrimination's cash cow running out of grass
Reuters reports:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Foes of same-sex marriage are laboring to pay the tab for an epic legal case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, as the movement suffers from fundraising shortfalls that could sap its strength in future battles.
ProtectMarriage.com, the advocacy group defending a California gay marriage ban now under review by the high court, showed a $2 million deficit in its legal fund at the end of 2011 - the third year in a row that expenses exceeded donations, fede...
