Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 322
January 7, 2013
Listen: With trial beginning, let's hear Scott Lively say gays are Satan's Endtimes-invoking foot soldiers
As I write this, "pro-family" activist Scott Lively is in a Massachusetts courtroom defending his obvious and disturbing choice to stir up anti-gay hostility in Uganda. This probably isn't going to help his case:
(*other voice is host Rick Wiles)
TruNews.com [Relevant Radio]
Report: SCOTUS to hear marriage cases 3/26–3/27
CAP Progress reports something Pete Williams apparently just said on-air:
Dates make sense to me. Spring is the time when sweet things begin to bloom.
Catholic Bishops apparently believe 2013 means number of equality denigrations they must issue this year
I'm fairly convinced that 2013 has already seen more Catholic-initiated condemnations of LGBT equality than it has seen days. Here's the latest, courtesy of Rhode Island's Bishop Thomas Tobin:
The General Assembly Should Reject “Same-Sex Marriage”
BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
1/7/13
The proposal to legalize “same-sex marriage” in the State of Rhode Island is immoral and unnecessary. Despite enormous political pressure, the General Assembly should stand firm, resist the current fashionable trend, and...
'I will never stop threatening legitimacy of my own movement!' vows Liberty Counsel's Barber
In one of the more telling turns that is meant for demonization but that will ultimately self-marginalize the anti-gay far right even further, Liberty Counsel attorney Matt Barber is trying his absolute best to rebrand California's ban on the junk science that is "reparative therapy" as the "Jerry Sandusky law":
It is one of those overreaches that even the more overheated anti-LGBT voices would never get behind. Matt's basic argument (as it were) is that gays are often molested "into" being ga...
SPLC designated hate group thinks lesbian PFLAG mom is 'emotionally manipulative'; relatedly, down is convinced it is up
When the anti-LGBT crowd manipulates the public into believing that gays are immoral, unfit for civil rights and protections, threatening, or as generally nasty as they like to portray us, they are of course just acting like good "values" Christians. But when actual LGBT humans stand up and speak on our own behalf, alongside supportive clergy and scholars? Well, we're just being "emotionally manipulative," natch.
So goes the Illinois Family Institute's apparent thinking:
[SOURCE: IFI]
Please. Th...
Illinois Bishops spent weekend playing politics—Rockford edition
Add Rockford to the list of Illinois cities where the local Catholic diocese dedicated its weekend resources toward making life more difficult for same-gender couples and their families:
Wait, Bishop—you said in the second line that "[t]here is a danger before us that is exceptional," but then spent the remainder of the letter taking about marriage and its potential civil expansion. Clearly, judging by the parodic and hyperbolic style of everything that follows the second line, you made a mist...
January 4, 2013
My final thoughts (for real this time) on Maggie's final column
I've already shared with you my thoughts on Maggie Gallagher's seventeen-year run as a syndicated columnist. Today, with that gig now behind her, Maggie gives her own perspective in an interview with Huffington Post's Lila Shapiro. Here's one snip and a link to the full enchilada:
Given the signs of decline you note in your final column, how do you feel about your last two decades of work?
Pretty proud and satisfied. I've spoken the truth within the limits of my insight, which is all any writer...
'Esquire' Exec. Editor Mark Warren apologizes to 'the insufferable bastards of ACT UP'
How To Survive A Plague was my hands down most powerful film experience of 2012. I'm far from alone in that.
Check out this great letter from Esquire magazine in which Executive Editor Mark Warren gives present day respect to his past annoyances:
Dear Larry Kramer,
I owe you an apology.
I thought that I knew everything I needed to know about the AIDS epidemic. It struck just as I was entering adulthood, and I followed the politics of the disease through the 1980s as it became an unparalleled publ...
