Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 67
October 7, 2014
Brendan Eich found DOMA unconstitutional
Brendan Eich, the Mozilla CEO who was removed from his position after his donations to the discriminatory Proposition 8 campaign came to light, is finally breaking his months of silence about the incident that anti-LGBT groups continue to use in their fundraising pitches and political press releases. On the web forum at link, he says a few different things of interest. This one sticks out to me:
Ruth Institute proposes wacky hetero-only civil unions scheme
We are truly at a full circle moment. I say that because it seems that some social conservatives, like Jennifer Johnson (née Thieme) of the Ruth Institute (a former NOM affiliate group), are ready to go back to the early aughts and propose civil unions as a compromise. Except this time around, they aren't proposing them for same-sex couples. No, no—these new civil unions will be like some super form of straight marriage that serve as a workaround for a current marriage system that the gays ar...
AFA's legal counsel: Same-sex marriage 'traps homosexuals,' will make them 'more belligerent'
As the anti-gay movement slowly pieces together the fact that the marriage fight is all but over and they lost it (and lost it HARD), the rhetoric is coarsening and the last vestiges of pragmatism are falling away. Here's the latest example courtesy of the American Family Association's Legal Counsel, Patrick Vaughn, who is arguing that same-sex marriage is actually going to make gay people more unhappy since our real problem is our " rebellion against God and His created order":
Homosexuals ha...
Read: #9thCircuit drives another nail in marriage discrimination's quickly closing coffin
With this, the latest historic development of the past two days, the path to marriage equality is opened in Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, Arizona, and more (Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands). Judge Reinhardt writes, and passionately, for the unanimous three judge panel:
Today in doing harm to your own movement: Hilarious anti-gay activist calls for 'Civil Disobedience on A Massive Scale'
Peter LaBarbera is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore! Hide your corsages and cake toppers! Se and his anti-LGBT army are about to take to the streets in protest of all things gay and marriage:
[AFTAH]
Riiight. Because torch-wielding mobs always help a movement look more righteous.
Ha!
Witherspoon Institute's 'Public Discourse' encourages gay people to 'resist' attractions
Writing for Public Discourse, the website that was just forced to run a retraction/correction about yours truly after editors allowed an author to defame me with lies, Matthew Franck, a top staffer at the Witherspoon Institute (which publishes PD), applauds author and fellow PD writer Anthony Esolen for his new book. Specifically, Frank says it's "brave" how Esolen told gay people their "abnormal behavior" is not to be "normalized." Here's the pertinent snippet:
In the two bravest chapters of...
Video: Another social conservative admitting marriage fight is pretty much over
Most of this CBN report is just kind of whatever. I did get a kick out of the anchor's pink-on-pink ensemble, a fitting homage. But for the most part, there's little new info.
Until you get to the 1:46 mark. Watch what happens when the guest, a Regent University professor, is asked point blank if the marriage fight is over and can barely hide the truth. And then stick around until around 2:40, where he adds that even his own Christian law students are increasingly supportive of civil equality....
Westboro Baptist shows America what unchecked anti-LGBT nastiness looks like
Westboro Baptist Church has decided to decorate Kansas roadsides:
Why did God destroy Sodom? Well, hopefully not for reductive eyesores constructed on local roadsides. If so, WBC is screwed.
Although I do thank WBC for helping Americans connect the dots of discrimination. We certainly owe them at least some thanks for the past years' victories!
Video: NBC News speaks to an increasingly option-less, reliably defiant NOM president
Brian Brown is the victim, y'all. He's lost gay friends, LGBT groups document his work (including his bizarre overseas trips to places like Russia), and courts increasingly refuse to accept his opinions as reality. But it's okay, everyone, because he's going to keep throwing donor money at a Federal Marriage Amendment, despite the fact that that nothing-burger legislation was a go-nowhere proposal even during the height of the Bush era, when only two US Senators were on record in support of m...
