Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 324
January 3, 2013
NOM helps that girl you sat behind in 9th grade math class tell you she shuns your civil equality
America's house of civil discrimination is encouraging Facebook fans to share this image on their won walls:
I believe marriage means a man and a woman. Sometimes. And I'm especially into it if it means a beach wedding invite for me!
But it's not only a man and a woman. That being the truth, you'll have to forgive me if I stay away from your blue arrows, NOM. It's not nice to point anyway.
Illinois Family Institute president distributes GOP chair's personal cell number
Even some of his own supporters are saying the move is in poor taste. Even so, IFI head David Smith is sticking with his decision to distribute the cell phone number of the state's pro-equality GOP chair, telling folks to call or text and demand he step down:
(redaction is my own)
[David Smith's Facebook]
Classy.
January 2, 2013
Illinois Family Institute backs idea that homosexuality is 'infamous crime'; 'truth and nature do not change over time...'
Check out this exchange that the moderator of the official Facebook account for Illinois' family policy group recently had with a dissenting voice:
We're just minutes away from the state legislature debating this key civil rights matter. So keep talking, folks. We're more than happy to let your own, obviously animus-laden words to our advantage.
'Advocate' photo album: LGBTI in Uganda
The idea that when people know LGBT people they ultimately support us has become a truism in American activism. In Uganda, where the obstacles and proposed roadblocks regularly reach a level of horror that is unimaginable to westerners, that truism takes on a whole new urgency.
Consume. Process. Share:
American-born gay photographer D. David Robinson collected portraits and first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, transgender, and interest Ugandans, then turned to The Advocate to offer these b...
NOM's new line: Gays used cover of tinsel and eggnog to lobby Springfield (IL)
While NOM's staff was busy being all wholesome and stuff with their families and cinnamon-tinged pastries, Illinois' gay marriage activists were busy pressuring state lawmakers. That's their latest bout of self-victimization:
While most citizens in the Land of Lincoln have been celebrating the Christmas and New Year holidays, gay marriage activists have been busy contacting legislators and lobbying in support of SSM.
The bill is now scheduled for a Senate committee vote as early as this evening...
Protecting marriage in Illinois, 1937 style
The bill was actually proposed by an Indiana legislator, but his stated intent was to "protect Illinois." And while that phrase is now shouted around by folks wanting to stop gays from marrying in the state, the scourge at the time involved heterosexuals crossing state lines in order to get around the medical exams and three day waiting requirements that were required of couples at the time:
Somehow, the "protect Illinois" crowd coped with couples' freedom to marry, in-state or out. And they w...
How dare the 'warlike' bloggers quote Dr Dobson accurately?!
This is what Dr. James Dobson, founder of FOcus on the Family, said on his radio broadcast the morning after the Sandy Hook tragedy:
"Our country really does seem in complete disarray. I'm not talking politically, I'm not talking about the result of the November sixth election; I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.
I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn't exist, or he's irrelevant to me and we have killed fifty-four million...
NOM promoting Cardinal George's view that gays' unions are unnatural
From NOM's official Facebook wall:
Nature tells us that civil marriage equality is impossible? Weird, I've always thought of my husband and myself as living, breathing parts of the world's possible kingdom. Silly me, not waiting for faith leaders and special interest groups to define reality.
Video: The first video of '13 suggesting my life, love, and marriage are controlled by Satan
A congregant asked Pastor Glenn Harvison of Greenwich, Connecticut's Harvest Time Church whether or not he could, in good conscience, attend a gay friend's upcoming wedding. So naturally, this led the theologian to equate people like me with people who are addicted to drugs, slothful, perverted, violent, and generally Satan-lured, with my "rescuable" sexual orientation something that is both "a sign of societal decay" and a "sign of the end of the age." All this before he absolves himself (in...
