Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 38
February 8, 2015
Video: Teeny, tiny crowd at Alabama anti-gay rally further proves that we've already won
If this is the best the anti-equality forces in one our reddest states can muster, then they should just go ahead and forfeit now:
(h/t: Joe)
Reasons some local conservatives gave for their non-attendance: Nice weather, realization that it's time to mind their own business, and ability to read clear the writing on the wall.
February 6, 2015
Video: U.S. Senators, Congressmen team up with some of nation's most fringe anti-LGBT activists
Sen. Rand Paul will likely see the GOP nomination for president. But first he will appear alongside fringe activist Janet Porter, her lantern, and a collection of America's most anti-gay (e.g. Scott Lively, Robert Knight, Brian Camenker) for what looks to be one of the campiest pieces of nasty fear propaganda to come out in some time:
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Alan Keyes: 50 state marriage equality = 'more grievous' attack than that which led to Revolutionary War
Alan Keyes, conservative commentator and onetime Republican presidential candidate, believes that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of full marriage equality could lead to the dissolution of our nation. After all, he believes it to be a "more grievous" attack than the catalysts that led to the Revolutionary War:
...no humanly fabricated right can be allowed to deny or disparage the unalienable right essential for the natural conception and perpetuation of humanity itself. Such denigration of ant...
February 5, 2015
Serial filer of marriage amicus briefs didn't 'give a crap' on day of Prop 8 ruling
Robert Oscar Lopez has filed numerous amicus briefs arguing against marriage equality. This year many in the conservative media have championed him for sharing his story about how being brought up by a lesbian mother entrenched his support against equal marriage rights. Before that, In 2013, he joined a brief that encouraged the US Supreme Court to uphold California's Proposition 8, a case that directly stemmed from (former) U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's 2010 ruling against the discrimi...
Mike Huckabee had no reason to link pedophilia to homosexuality in his new book—he just did.
Mike Huckabee has been on this earth for fifty-nine years. Moreover, he's been in political life since 1992. For the bulk of those years in the spotlight, he has been front and center in so-called "culture war" debates.
It is certain that Mike Huckabee has had many experiences with gay rights and gay people. Yet when it came time to choose how he would open the one gay-focused chapter of his latest book, check out how the anti-gay political figure carried out the task:
#TBT: Yes, kids, we were having this same conversation forty-one years ago
Marriage for same-sex couples. One side makes a simple but direct case for equality under civil law while the other side uses a doctor who champions "ex-gay" therapy (and whose son became a major gay rights activist) and draws comparisons to things like adultery.
It's still happening in 2015. It was already happening in 1974:
February 4, 2015
Video: Bob Vander Plaats cites woman marrying herself, businesses following nondiscrimination law as 'proof' that he was right
Bob Vander Plaats is a very anti-gay–minded Iowan who has failed to stop the benign, peaceful, loving marriage equality that has been in his state for nearly six years now. But he is going to win this thing in the end, you see, "because it ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun." Or something:
'Public Discourse' helps Supreme Court see religious animus that drives anti-equality movement
In the run-up to the ultimate showdown at the United State Supreme Court, one would think those who must make a credible, factual, constitutionally grounded case against civil marriage equality would be focusing their efforts on arguments that shy away from religious-motivated animus. After all, if they have any chance of success (or their version thereof), it is going to be based in civil law, not theology.
But of course this movement is driven by faith-motivated animus. As it to drive home t...
Next phase in the marriage fight: the post-equality 'we were wrong' tour
There's an interesting situation happening in Arizona, where some Democratic state legislators are pushing a bill that would remove the marriage-banning language from the state constitution. Since the courts have already found that voter-enacted ban to be unconditional and couples have been marrying in the state for many months, the bill is really just a formality. But what's notable is the way those who are championing the inevitable-to-pass-at-some-point legislation are talking about it. Fo...
February 3, 2015
Audio: FRC's Tony Perkins suggests civil disobedience; says compliance with nondiscrimination = 'involuntary servitude'
Tony Perkins does this really funny thing. Whenever he's about to say something that he knows will show his truer colors, he prefaces it with some line about how "the left" and "the bloggers" are going to be all red-faced and angry and "foaming at the mouth" over his comments. After all these years, Tony still hasn't realized that all of us who track and post his nasty rhetoric are (a) extremely grateful to him, the head of an organization that became a certified hate group on his watch, for...
