Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 41
January 27, 2015
AFA's Director of Issues Analysis: LGBT activists possess 'unvarnished energy of Satan himself
For the most part I now ignore people like Bryan Fischer and their desperate cries in a thickening political wilderness. However, sometimes we need a reminder that this man has spoken at top conservative conferences alongside GOP presidential candidates:
[RWW]
Eh, at least we're unvarnished. If you're going to be Beelzebub's spokesperson, you should at least go full out.
Wait, FRC has been able to 'uphold natural marriage'? That's news to all non–cave dwellers!
In its latest fundraising pitch, the Family Research Council highlights many things that the anti-LGBT org. is supposedly doing. Many of them are stretches of the truth because, well—it's FRC. But this highlighted one is just a blatant lie:
Of course if FRC meant "natural marriage" the way people who actually care about accurate usage of the English language mean it, then they would be right. Natural marriage has, in fact, been upheld during this time of remarkable progress for marriage equali...
January 26, 2015
Because when am I not calling up Fox News personalities to do my bidding?
Latest conservative theory about me, my power, and the one ten minute post I wrote about the Legatus Summit:
[Fringe talk show host Cliff Kincaid] later called on Shepard Smith to “come out of the closet,” accusing the Fox News host of secretly being “one of the most powerful homosexuals in the media.”
Kincaid speculated on his show Saturday that activist Jeremy Hooper, who first highlighted the anti-gay views of Legatus, had personally called Smith to get Baier in trouble.
“For what we know, th...
Anti-equality conservative admits GLAAD CAP is 'smart' and 'effective'
Brandon McGinley, a senior staffer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute who also writes for a number of conservative (and largely anti-LGBT) publications, has admitted that GLAAD's Commentator Accountability Project (which I created with a small team at GLAAD) is "smart" and "effective" strategy:
When a people is as risk-averse in political posturing as we are, the movement most willing to exact a personal price for opposition will win. This explains the American elite’s newfound passion for...
January 25, 2015
You know what's not presidential? Like at all?
Answer: Suggesting that vendors who have a problem with a minority population might put some form of poison in said minority population's baked goods if they get too uppity with their desire for nondiscrimination in public accommodation:
[Ben] Carson also criticized political correctness as he answered a question about gay marriage — and followed up by flaunting decorum with the type of comment that endears him with the base but could hurt his cross-party appeal.
"What I have a problem with is...
Inevitable justice temporarily delayed in Alabama
In order to give Alabama's Republican Attorney General "time to present his arguments to the Eleventh Circuit so that the appeals court can decide whether to dissolve or continue the stay pending appeal (assuming there will be an appeal.), Judge Callie Granade has stayed her ruling in favor of marriage equality in the Yellowhammer State. The stay will remain in effect for fourteen days, unless the appeals court dissolves it earlier:
BREAKING: Federal Judge Issues 14-Day Stay On Alabama Same-Se...
January 23, 2015
Read: Fed. judge strikes Alabama marriage ban; no stay on ruling
Breaking and huge:
1:14-cv-00208 #53 Alabama Opinion and Order by Equality Case Files
1:14-cv-00208 #54 by Equality Case Files
The judge is a George W. Bush appointee. Amazing.
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*UPDATE: Conservative US Senator Jeff Sessions, long against marriage equality and anything related to it, praised this judge at her confirmation. Having known her personally, Sessions called her "levelheaded, fair minded, trustworthy, and very smart." Let's see if he rolls that back now with the cheap "activist judge...
Derisively remembering when full equality was in 'Jeopardy!'
Joe Jervis (himself working from a Slate story) tips us to this, a mocking answer from a recent edition of the high-minded game show Jeopardy!:
Jeopardy! Mocks Civil Unions [J.M.G.]
The pointed tone is clear. And it's just an appetizer of what history will do to the idea that certain American citizens should've accepted segregated, quasi-equality as the final word on this matter. It was just a few short years ago that even our allies—even our President, remember—felt like this was an okay thing...
When all else fails, demand your letters are capitalized
You guys, their truth is capitalized. For reals. A gay man who chooses both celibacy and anti-gay political activism has insisted so:
[NOM]
But you know what? Im actually going to concede that those of us who are writing history on this civil rights issue are not using capital letters. After all, the last word in an overlong sentence rarely is.
January 22, 2015
Major Iowa caucus player calls on next President to 'politely reject unjust SCOTUS opinions'
The article itself is un-bylined, but an embedded video features The Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats delivering a truncated version of the same message. That message: Same-sex marriage is anti-God and everyone should just ignore the Supreme Court if it sides with civil equality:
Clearly, a law or court opinion recognizing so-called “same-sex marriage” as equivalent to procreative marriage violates natural law, the moral law, and the eternal law of God.
We will likewise urge our next Presi...
