Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 49
December 12, 2014
HILARIOUS: Model from 'ex-gay' twins billboard is 'out, proud gay man,' not a twin
It's no surprise that the "ex-gay" movement uses stock photo models, considering how few spokespeople they have and how many past participants have come out to repudiate the whole charade. But this is just hysterical:
Yes, Christopher Doyle, the photo does matter. The billboard very clearly implies that the featured gents are twins who help "prove" that people aren't born gay. The fact that the featured participant is actually not a twin, and is in fact pe...
December 11, 2014
New research: Sitting down and correcting misinformation is effective at correcting misinformation
New research is lending more evidence to what we've long known: that when it comes to changing hearts and minds in the direction of equal rights, there's no topping the efficacy and staying power of the in-person conversation. The New York Times reports:
Gay political canvassers can soften the opinions of voters opposed to same-sex marriage by having a brief face-to-face discussion about the issue, researchers reported Thursday.
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The study, published Thursday by the journal Science, suggests...
Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler reminds us that marriage equality is inevitable
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler wrote a column all about how his religious freedom is supposedly being stifled by LGBT rights. Because of course he did; people on his side of the debate rarely write anything else these days. That's because they are on an all-out (and obvious) PR campaign in which they are trying to sell the "we're the victims" concept to an American inclined to roll its eyes the moment they hear the wacky idea that people who've spent decades try...
DC ban on 'ex-gay' junk science brings Tony Perkins back to his old school animus
For the past year or so, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins has kind of been on his best behavior, at least when it comes to his anti-LGBT
rhetoric. I'm not sure if it was the election and the need to be more pragmatic, his increased presence of Fox News, other priorities, or if he's far more spooked by his legacy and the internet's unforgiving memory than he lets on, but he hasn't been quite as Tony Perkins-y in 2014.
But hey, there's still a couple of weeks left. And it seems th...
Ryan Anderson's priest/preacher conflation shows fundamental misunderstanding of nondiscrimination law
Anti-LGBT activist Ryan T. Anderson took to the blog of his employer, the Heritage Foundation, and further proved that his overall political goals exceed well beyond his key cause of stopping equal civil marriage rights for loving, deserving, peaceful American taxpayers. But while I'm not surprised to hear Ryan extending his fight beyond marriage since anyone who follows him knows that his advocacy goes much further (yesterday he promoted and staunchly defended a piece from an "ex-gay" who cl...
Video: ADF features pro-discrimination advocate in latest fake 'victim' video
Lexington, KY, has an ordinance protecting against discrimination in the areas of Race, Color, Religion, National Origin, Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, and/or Disability. But of course some anti-LGBt Christians and their political supporters believe they have some sort of entitled right to ignore at least one of those categories, even though they should have known the deal the very day they chose to open a public accommodation.
But for a movement determined to flip the script so that it...
December 10, 2014
Video: Texas Baptist preacher rails against 'dirty f*ggots' who 'are all pedophiles'
Another soft and tender moment from the deep well of Baptist animus:
"I'm not going to let any of these dirty faggots inside my church," Romero said. "They are all pedophiles ... They're always trying to rape and hurt other people. They're relentless. They are relentless. They are predators and given an opportunity to snatch one of your children, they would do it in a heartbeat"
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Wow, pastor. Do you kiss Jesus with that mouth?
NOM's bald-face lies about the 2014 midterms
In a hilariously desperate pitch letter (that many of you have sent me today precisely because of its hilarious desperation), National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown makes the following claim:
...the National Organization for Marriage was 100 percent successful in the last Congressional election in defeating targeted supporters of same-sex marriage and electing those who support the truth about marriage.
In all three Congressional contests where Republicans abandoned the truth...
Video: Meet the self-avowed 'homosexual' who fought to repeal Fayetteville, AR nondiscrimination law
Last night, the town of Fayetteville, Arkansas, narrowly repealed its LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination law (by around five hundred votes). Thomas "I am a homosexual" Baker helped make that happen:
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Love and respect yourself, Thomas. You are more deserving than you've seemingly been told.
