Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 36
February 12, 2015
Video: When junk science, a cheesy premise and offensive glibness collide
The study is bogus, shepherded by a priest who has done anti-gay work for Family Research Council and can't even write the word "marriage" without putting it in smear quotes. The journal also seems to be one of those pay-to-publish kinds of deals, with its publisher, ScienceDomain Intl., appearing on a few lists of journals to watch out for. But hey, it's good enough for Focus on the Family to make an offensively flip clip attacking those of us who parent while married to someone of the same-...
February 11, 2015
AL GOP chair predicts God's pending destruction; eh, I guess that's one way to beat Hillary
The Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party wants you to know that God is going to soon show his wrath all across the good ol' US of A. I trust you can guess his—and I'm being generous when I call it this—reasoning:
We have made God in our image. But, God will not be mocked. The State of Alabama and the United States of America will reap God’s wrath if we embrace and condone things that are abhorrent to God, such as redefining marriage as anything other than a union between one man and one wo...
Those daggum 'earthly courts' and their opinions about *civil* marriage policy
Billy Graham's son, who is infinitely more of an anti-gay activist than his father ever was, is all kinds of mad about that the United States Supreme Court did not defer to some sort of unseen Jesus Court (is that in the Seventh Heaven Circuit?) when weighing in on civil marriage policy:
What does that last line even mean for our society? I mean think about how self-centered and myopic you have to be to even peck out a line like that. First of all, he is saying that this natio...
Sen. Cruz champions go-nowhere, pro-discrimination, Federal Marriage Amendment Light
Blarty blarty blarty blah:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, along with 11 fellow Senators, re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act, which respects the definition of marriage held by the people of each state and protects states from the federal government's efforts to force any other definition upon them.
FULL: Sen. Cruz: We Must Protect State Marriage Laws [Ted Cruz]
Why not just wheel a few old arcade games into the Senate Chamber for some bipartisan face offs in Pac Ma...
NOM directly links its anti-gay, pro-discrimination cause to 1963 March on Washington
I hope you haven't just eaten:
Dear Marriage Supporter,
In 1963, something happened that changed the civil rights movement.
For the first time, six major organizations working on civil rights issues came together to support what they called the "March on Washington" to demand the passage of pivotal civil rights legislation.
Many were opposed to it, including some prominent civil rights leaders, one of whom derisively labeled the effort the "farce on Washington." President Kennedy advised against...
Desperate National Org. For Marriage now pushing abject, undeniable animus
I've always believed that the closer we get to victory, the more disgusting our opposition is going to get. Latest example:
[NOM]
You cannot respect your LGB neighbor and also relate their real or theoretical marriages to that which might exist between a brother and sister (or brother and sister and mother and...). The two notions are incompatible.
By going down, the programatic-deprived path that Roy Moore is laying out, NOM is making our case to the Supreme Court, no theirs. Which is good in t...
February 10, 2015
In Buzzfeed sit-down POTUS blasts Judge Roy Moore, predicts marriage equality victory at SCOTUS
Ben Smith and his team get some good insight:
Post by BuzzFeed News.
In one sense, I hate that he mentioned Moore at all. You just know that a mention from the President of the United States is precisely what a notorious publicity hound like Moore wanted out of all this.
Photo: Anti-gay Alabama group helps critics link interracial marriage, same-sex marriage protests
The bible was absolutely, indisputably, heavily used to justify bans on interracial marriage, Jim Crow laws, and other blights on the history of the segregated south. And of course we are talking about civil marriage (and related rights), not religious ceremony.
But even so, this anti-gay Alabama group for some reason thinks it's a good idea to solidify these two images within the public's consciousness:
[Facebook]
You can even see it in the picture on the left. One of the guys is holding a sign...
Sen. Sessions decries the Bush-nominated judge, former colleague that he once championed
Conservative U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is all kinds of ticked off at Judge Callie Granade for bringing marriage equality to his home state. The four-term member of the upper chamber tells CQ Roll Call:
“I think it’s an unhealthy trend that judges feel that they’re somehow reflecting popular opinion when first of all, it’s not popular opinion, and secondly, who are they to be ruling on cases based on how they feel,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, a senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, tol...
