Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 327
December 27, 2012
Hey NOM: We want marriage. Always. Every time. In every state. We're not hiding that fact.
The National Organization for Marriage is rounding out 2012 by doing what the discriminatory outfit does best: naming a false reality and hoping others will just blindly follow it.
Check out the following two snips, which come from two different action alerts that NOM just sent out. The first focuses on Illinois, where the state legislature is about to consider bumping up its separate-and-unequal civil unions system to full marriage equality. Focus on the highlighted part:
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This second i...
'New York Times' quotes one of IL's most overheated; fails to tell readers who she is
Laurie Higgins is an extremely vehement opponent of LGBT rights. Laurie is in the vane of Peter LaBarbera and Linda Harvey, with whom she regularly partners on aggressively anti-LGBT projects.
Laurie's organization, the Illinois Family Institute, is one of the few statewide organizations to make the Southern Poverty Law Center's ignoble hate group list. That's because IFI is not just a run of the mill policy shop. IFI is an organization that proudly embraces its animus in a very real and unden...
A *truly* pro-family response to a gay son
Considering the timing, it's likely you missed Frank Bruni's Christmas weekend post about family journeys. If so, I encourage you to correct that now:
FOR a long while, my father’s way of coping was to walk quietly from the room. He doesn’t remember this. I do. I can still see it, still feel the pinch in my chest when the word “gay” came up — perhaps in reference to some event in the news, or perhaps in reference to me — and he’d wordlessly take his leave of whatever conversation my mother and...
NOM & FRC's failing year-end fundraisers
With the December 31 countdown clock ticking away, both the Family Research Council and the National Organization For Marriage seem to be having some difficulty filling the anti-equality/anti-LGBT coffers. Towards its stated $3 million goal, FRC is showing a mere 28% fulfillment:
(as of 8:45AM Eastern)
[FRC's year-end fundraiser]
As for NOM, the nation's house of marriage discrimination is showing intake of only a fraction of the matched $500k that it has solicited:
(as of 8:46AM Eastern)
[NOM yea...
December 24, 2012
December 21, 2012
Pastor who officiated Rush Limbaugh's wedding: There's 'no hope' for gays (who destroy God's plan)
Washington pastor and conservative commentator Ken Hutcherson:
If you really want to destroy God's plan, promote homosexuality"…"When you've turned a man over to his own lusts, there's no hope"
Ken Hutcherson Interview [AFTAH]
If you're praying to a God whose earthly to-do list is most dependent on how fully his mortals shun LGBT people, then you're doing it wrong. Give God a little more credit than that.
December 20, 2012
Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver: Marriage equality will cause new civil war
My husband just came home from work and we're about to cook dinner. We thought we were having steamed veggie dumplings and garlic sesame udon. But according to Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, our benign act of domestic bliss within the confines of a legally-recognized union is actually serving up a heaping plate of street war:
"This is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty...
In wake of Newtown, responsible voices are having reasoned convo; Andrea Lafferty has other plans
When think of political points to connect to the tragic CT school shooting, a pundit has several options. Gun control is the most obvious. Some suggest a mental health conversation. Others might want to talk about how we can ratchet up security even more at our nation's public schools.
But if you're the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Lafferty, you will connect the slaughter of six- and seven-year-olds 
directly to employment protections for LGBT people and the supposed "dangers" such pro...
And now the strident inequality crowd has lost Newt; ha.
The big news of this day, as reported by Huffington Post:
On gay marriage, meanwhile, Gingrich argued that Republicans could no longer close their eyes to the course of public opinion. While he continued to profess a belief that marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman, he suggested that the party (and he himself) could accept a distinction between a "marriage in a church from a legal document issued by the state" -- the latter being acceptable.
"I think that this will be much mor...
