Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 48

Conservative proposes new way for vendors to tell gay customers they don't care for them

Conservative Princeton lecturer Russell Nieli is proposing a new approach for the bakers, florists, and assorted vendors who would prefer to turn away same-sex couples who seek their business, but who often find themselves running afoul of the law when they try. Nieli wants the vendors to do the job, but to be really, really objectionable about it. He writes, in part:

I think there is a third way. Although it may not be acceptable to all in this situation, it would be acceptable to many. It is...

NOM versus David Koch

NOM dares to go where few conservatives are willing to go. They are taking on the Koch brothers:

Recently, the news reported that David Koch—the conservative boogeyman of the left—will be interviewed by ABC's Barbara Walters for her "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014" special scheduled to air on Sunday.



In the interview, he unequivocally states, "I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal." It harkens back to a 2012 Politico article wh...

Anti-equality baseball player calls reporter 'a prick' for asking about his anti-equality advocacy

Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter recently recorded a political ad in which he used his baseball fame to advocate for a (failed) gubernatorial candidate and, specifically, his anti-equality stances. This recording followed 2012 comments in which Hunter said he'd be uncomfortable having a gay teammate since he believes "biblically, it's not right."

But now when a reporter dares to mention the beliefs that Hunter holds and the ad that Hunter chose to record—an ad he was only asked to recor...

Audio: Josh Duggar defends discrimination, invalidates own point

On Monday's edition of Tony Perkins' daily radio show, anti-LGBT activist and reality TV personality Josh Duggar showed up to chat with guest host Richard Land about the recent repeal of an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in Fayetteville, Arkansas (both Josh and his mother Michelle had put themselves front and center of this debate). And while Josh and Richard have a good ol' time talking about "lifestyles" and "agendas" as they push the anti-intellectual notion that LGBT-inclusive...

Audio: AFA's Fischer names 'homosexual agenda' as 'greatest threat to liberty' in American history

Move over, the many and myriad actual oppressions that have wounded America in our nearly two hundred forty year history. According to the American Family Association's Director Of Issues Analysis and star radio host, the fight for gay equality is the biggest threat our liberty has every faced:

This is not normal commentary, folks. We've come to accept it as normal because the anti-LGBT movement has spent decades lowering the bar in some apparent attempt to test the temperature of the earth's...

Audio: AFA Radio caller calls for executing gays; FRC-employed host doesn't even challenge him, much less condemn

When a caller phones in to your radio show and calls for the execution of gay people, you should be sure to repudiate that call for genocide in the firmest way possible. Right? And this is particularly true if you are an employee of one of America's most anti-gay organizations, yes?

Well not according to Craig James. While filling in for FRC's president, Tony Perkins, on last Friday's edition of his AFA Radio show, the former sportscaster, onetime US Senate candidate (he lost to Sen. Ted Cruz...

NOM president's other organization is 'in trouble' (his words) too

National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown sends out one of the most desperate fundraising pitches I've ever seen:

I'll remind you that NOM, under Brian's guidance, has become riddled in debt and has a remarkably terribly track record. And by his own admission, ActRight is also near death?

Brian, buddy—maybe conservative politicking isn't your calling? Just a thought.

FRC prays to take LGBT Americans out of nondiscrimination law

It's not enough to fight us in legislatures or courts. The Family Research Council is now literally praying that "the sexual proclivities of a small minority" be taken out of nondiscrimination ordinances, at least when they person who wishes to discriminate is a professed Christian.

This comes from FRC's latest round of "prayer targets":

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Only in FRC's backwards world could the fair application of fairly-instated nondiscrimination policy constitute an "instance of despotism," while the actu...

In lieu of typing 'Look how desperate we are' over and over again, NOM president wrote this instead

National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown has seen the future, and he's back to breathlessly spook those who he and his cash-strapped organization so desperately need to give them money:

I sit silently holding the note my sixteen year old daughter brought home from school, taking in the word stamped in red — "Suspended." I look at her and know immediately what has happened, because we've been through this before. "He was in the girl's bathroom again and I told him to leave," she...

I'll remind you that FRC also compared our marriages to human-horse unions

Today a picture is floating around the internet of a Mississippi pastor who is drawing a direct comparison between same-sex marriage and man-on-horse unions:

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And of course people are calling it outlandish and crazy and nutso. Because it is.

But you know what else it is? The exact same thing that the anti-equality movement's top D.C. policy shop did just a few years ago. In fact, is was the setup for a recent Family Research Council pamphlet arguing against marriage equality:

[Family Rese...