Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 61
October 26, 2014
The debate is getting very weird and increasingly toxic
In a recent GLAAD Blog post, I commented on how peacefully marriage equality is expanding throughout this nation. Thankfully, that remains true, at least with the everyday citizens of this great country. Since I wrote the post, two more states (AZ and WY) have adopted the freedom to marry, and outside one lone mention of the Benham brothers' father screaming at the weddings of same-sex couples, here have been no reports of citizens raising even a minor stink over the newfound equality in thei...
October 24, 2014
NOM spends six figures on North Carolina's Hagan/Tillis US Senate race
Considering it was the last state they "won" (until they lost it) and considering they developed a lot of close ties there, the National Organization For Marriage is surely hoping they can muster some sway in the Tar Heel state in order to oust incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat who supports marriage equality. To aid this cause, NOM has already spent six figures on mailers opposing Hagan and supporting her opponent, anti-equality Republican Thom Tillis
I haven't seen the mailer. But if...
Idaho wedding venue can be discriminatory so long as it sticks to new business model
The Hitching Post, the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, for-profit wedding chapel that has been the subject of one of the most spun-up and twisted "news" stories of this week, will be free to deny same-sex couples. That is, if they stick to their new business model (which is not their old business model) of only performing religious weddings:
Coeur d'Alene Says Hitching Post Is Exempt From Gay Rights Law [Boise State Public Radio]
Which is totally fine. In fact, that was the gist of my post from back in M...
Sunday in Houston: Activists mad that churches were noted for their politicization head to a church—to politicize
The request, made to five pastors who have been on the front lines of an attempt to rollback a nondiscrimination law in the city of Houston, was essentially standard legal procedure. The subpoenas sought any instructions on filing petitions that these pastors might have delivered during their sermons, since the filing of petitions is at the center of the lawsuit. Even so, the mayor (who had not seen the filing prior to the media circus) said she did see the language within as somewhat broad a...
October 23, 2014
Lisa Kudrow thinks my website title is modest, at best
Lisa Kudrow, never a stranger to gay fans, has a theory about gay men. Here goes:
“I don't know who I'm going to offend by leaving them out,” she began, “but I need to say that I think gay men are superior beings in my mind. I do believe that.”
When pressed for explanation, the actress even offered up semi-scientific data.
"It's all so tricky. I studied biology and the brains are anatomically different. They just are. There's a stronger connection with the corpus callosum (in gay men). The two s...
Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded mission of destruction?
With all that's going on around the world today, there are plenty of headlines to which one might ascribe the phrase "mission of destruction." Here's the American Family Association's choice:
Two same-gender couples have filed suit to overturn Mississippi's constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman – an amendment approved by 86 percent of Mississippi voters in 2004.
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[Buddy Smith, executive vice president of American Family Association] points out the push-ba...
October 22, 2014
MassResistance's hilarious fourteen-point plan for reinstating marriage discrimination: Get really, really nasty
The anti-LGBT activists at MassResistance see the writing on the wall, and they know that it reads "Psst, your game's almost up!" So here is their hysterically obtuse plan for how they will convince America to do an about-face and ultimately declare gay people public enemies of our own country:
Change of Attitude
1. Understand the “gay marriage” battle. In the short run the “gay marriage” fight is all about forcing the normalizing of homosexuality on society. In their own way, that’s even how t...
Concerned Women For America finally learns to call out anti-gay rhetoric
Over the years, the Concerned Women For America has employed Sandy Rios, Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber, Robert Knight, and a whole host of conservatives whose rhetoric routinely breaks the bounds of political decorum. And right now, on CWA's main website, you can still find branded information like this....
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...and more stuff than I could ever round up. Staffers have attacked Rep. Nancy Pelosi's "surgically induced gash of a smile, which is hard to endure." Their cu...
'Rivka Edelman' responds to me via one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read
"Rivka Edelman," who first wrote an article that had to be corrected and for which I had to be granted a personal apology due to the lies within and who has since spent about two weeks now posting lies about me and attempting to force me to take responsibility for words I never wrote and actions I never performed (e.g. writing her family and employer), is now demanding that I scrub the web clean of anything that mentions her name. Oh, and apparently I have to find out the name of anyone who a...
