Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 5
July 14, 2015
Audio: NOM cofounder, Princeton professor Robert George compares secret Nazi teacher to out gay teacher
When teacher Margie Winters was hired at Waldron Mercy Academy in 2007, she says she told the Philadelphia area Catholic school that she is married to a woman. According to Winters, the school requested she just not discus it with parents or kids, a rule by which she says she abided. However, after some parents found out earlier this year, Winters was asked to resign from her position. When Winters refused to resign her position of nearly eight years, the school fired her.
According to Robe...
July 13, 2015
And now we start checking 'em all off the list (#LoveWins #MoreThanMarriage)
While neither of these long-sought-after LGBT rights developments, both of which broke this afternoon, are specifically related to marriage, you can be sure that the Supreme Court's ruling is a major reason why we see things falling into place in other areas:
Boy Scouts Panel Adopts Resolution To Allow Gay Scout Leaders [NPR]
Pentagon To Lift Ban On Transgender Service Members [HRC]
This summer's game-changing ruling and unbelievable outpouring of support solidified our momentum, and it a...
Unable to grumpily take ball and go home, Missouri county uses flags for childish marriage equality protest
When it comes to making us look even better in the wake of victory, Dent County, Missouri just did the victorious equality movement a solid:
The Dent County Commission voted unanimously Monday to observe one year of "mourning” over the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision that gay couples have the constitutional right to marriage.
The observance will come in the form of lowering the flags at the Dent County Courthouse and Judicial Building to below half-staff on the 26th day of the month from...
Then you're being bad allies, Walker boys
The media has found a story in the fact that Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker, who staunchly opposes marriage equality and supports measures to overturn the Supreme Court's decision, has two young and photogenic sons (ages nineteen and twenty-one) who both support marriage equality. Some have reported it positively, as a sign of the stark and inevitable rate of change even among Republicans. Others have questioned if perhaps it's an attempt for Walker to...
Video: Focus on the Family finally owning childishness of their arguments
The Supreme Court should be put in time out, suggests a Focus on the Family staffer who is as reliably qualified as most Focus on the Family staffers to make such an argument:
This isn't something I make my child do, personally. Then again, I don't want to indoctrinate the way Focus on the Family does.
July 10, 2015
National Organization For Stock Photo Models is super pumped about ongoing marriage fight
The National Organization For Marriage just issued one of its near-daily fundraising pleas in which they claim to have a plan to still stay relevant even though marriage equality is the law of the land in all fifty states and federally. The plan goes something like, "Blarty blarty blah blah, smoogity boogity, give us your money (paraphrase)."
But even though everyone else knows it's over, I can't help but laugh at NOM's continued attempts to use stock photo models to represent the enthusias...
July 8, 2015
Video: The one clip to share with friends who think 'religious freedom' is something other than discrimination
This chilling clip of a Kentucky gay couple being denied a civil marriage license is quickly going viral. The "religious freedom" advocates surely hate that it is. If not, they should:
Put the clip behind a grainy black and white filter, and it's like watching a documentary from another time. Put the clip all over the internet, and it becomes a damning piece of evidence from our own time.
July 7, 2015
Tony Perkins: If American Christians accept SCOTUS marriage ruling, Christians will be killed elsewhere
Tony Perkins is on a bit of a church tour right now, giving the same basic speech everywhere he goes. His closing message to the faithful? That if they tolerate the Obergefell decision, it's going to lead to Christians being murdered overseas:
[St Andrew Baptist Church - Panama City, FL]
No matter what anyone anywhere does to Christians anywhere, including but not limited to murder, Tony will always find a way to blame us and our peaceful inclusion within civil society for making or at l...
What must drive the anti-gay activists crazy
After the Proposition 8 injustice of 2008, the right-side-of-history rose up instantly and organically in protest of the discriminatory move. By the next day, Californians were in the streets in mass numbers vowing to overturn this wrong. By week's end, voters in major American cities had joined in. By month's end, folks rom coast to coast were standing up and drawing more (and ultimately game-changing) attention to the wrongheadedness of overturning minority rights through the tyranny of a...
July 6, 2015
I can't keep pretending to care about [insert activist] saying [insert ridiculous thing]
Tonight in Florida, militant anti-equality activist Tony Perkins, who insists Christians need not abide by marriage laws, will be telling the faithful they need to "reclaim America."
The far-right is going around spinning outright myths about one of those handful of fake "victims" who chose to discriminate against paying customers.
Not-ever-going-to-be-president Rick Santorum is crowing about a fallacious speech he gave to a NOM gala that I'm not sure even NOM's own communications departme...
