Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 42
January 22, 2015
Photo: Supreme Court's Thomas poses with NOM's cofounder, major equality opponent
Robert George is the cofounder (along with Maggie Gallagher) of the National Organization For Marriage and one of the authors of the Federal Marriage Amendment. Ryan T. Anderson is a Heritage Foundation staffer and a top voice against marriage equality.
Today, these two men managed to hug up against a man who will soon make a key decision on marriage equality:
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Bias? Maybe; maybe not. Certainly doing a good impression of it, though.
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January 21, 2015
Wait, even NewsMax is now pushing back against anti-gay spin?!
This video is a few days old, but I just discovered it and want to post. It's not so much that I find anything that Florida anti-gay activist John Stemberger says to be all that notable (although his claim that we "can't do civilization" without marriage being the way he sees it is pretty funny). What's most interesting to me is how the anchor for NewsMax, an incredibly conservative outlet, doesn't seem to be having any of Stemberger's lies. He pushes back on almost every one:
Virtually every...
Deflating the anti-gay right's latest 'gotcha!'
The anti-equality activists know that the civil rights narrative makes them look bad, which is why they've always tried to flip the script. Discriminating against loving same-sex couples became "protecting marriage" as a way to deny the obvious and make the proponents of marriage seem like the opponents. They framed their objections to things like hate crimes legislation and Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal as "pro-family" policies for the same reason. And of course now they are going around using...
January 20, 2015
POTUS hails marriage equality in State of the Union speech
From remarks as prepared:
"I've seen something like gay marriage go from a wedge issue used to drive us apart to a story of freedom across our country, a civil right now legal in states that seven in ten Americans call home."
—President Obama
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Full remarks, as delivered:
Well I expected this headline from NOM eventually...
...just not so soon:
This Is It [NOM]
Ah, bye, Brian. Was it as good for you as it was for me? (Answer: Of course it wasn't.)
Okay, just kidding. This isn't Brian's farewell post (a few years beyond where NOM should've trusted his leadership; but I digress). Instead, it's Brian saying that he's "pumped" for the upcoming US Supreme Court battle, that he's confident they'll win, that they'll keep going even if they don't, and oh yeah—give us money. By "this is it," Brian doesn't mean "it's over a...
Bret Baier: Legatus Magazine's anti-gay 'cure' doesn't 'seem to line up with the loving, accepting Church that I know'
Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera has posted an email from Fox News anchor Bret Baier confirming that some of the Legatus Magazine text that I initially highlighted was, in fact, a big reason why he pulled out from the upcoming Legatus Summit:
From: Show -Special [special@FOXNEWS.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:37 PM
To: ’Mike Carroll’
Subject: RE: Legatus cancellation
[xxxx],
Thank you for the email.
I pulled out of the speech at Fox’s request — because of the controversy surrounding some of...
Can anti-equality conservatives make a point without invoking Nazis, Marx, Communism?
I haven't mentioned Tony Perkins' so-called "State of the Family" event, which he delivered last night in D.C., because, quite frankly—it was a bit of a mess. It started with this majorly overplayed introduction that made Tony Perkins seem like a cross between the President of the United States and an American Gladiators competitor. But then it was followed by a sort of go-nowhere speech in front of a tiny crowd in a less-than-dazzling room. And of course rather than actually talk about stren...
Antonin Scalia keynoted event at anti-equality diocese; doesn't want it heard, apparently
In mid 2014, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a reliable and notorious opponent of LGBT rights, keynoted an event for the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, VA. Scalia's son Paul, who has long moonlighted with Catholicism's version of an "ex-gay" movement (called Courage), just so happens to work for this particular diocese. Plus Antonin is himself a member of one of the churches within the diocese (Saint Catherine of Siena), so it wasn't a huge surprise that the Supreme Court justice would...
January 19, 2015
Finally, NOM makes a smart business move
The United States Supreme Court is supposed to issue its likely landmark ruling on marriage equality in June of this year.
The National Organization For Marriage only bought up its domain name through June of this year:
Foreshadowing.
January 18, 2015
Video: FRC's Perkins equates same-sex marriage with incestuous unions
If Fox News wanted a rational debate on marriage, it wouldn't have booked a man who has years of saying outrageous things about LGBT people. But since they did book Tony Perkins, who is not a lawyer, to debate actual attorney and former solicitor general Ted Olson, they got an unsurprising moment where the FRC head directly equated a fair, equal, court-tested right with which a majority of Americans already live to, well—unions between a father and his daughter:
OLSON: Well, in the first plac...
