Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 71
September 29, 2014
Conservative Catholic professor: Gay activists like segregationists in 'single-minded heedlessness'
In a far-less-intellectual-than-he-thinks-it-is essay for the very anti-gay Public Discourse (edited by the very anti-gay Ryan Anderson), Providence College professor Anthony Esolen (a Catholic conservative, of course) makes a long-winded case that arguments in favor of slavery and segregation do not apply to opponents of marriage equality but do "characterize some of our opponents in the debate." While he does allow that there is difference in terms of odium, he insists that those of us who...
Stop claiming Biden, Obama, Clinton, et al. supported marriage amendments—they did not.
This comes from an Op-Ed that anti-gay activists Ryan Anderson and Edwin Meese managed to place in the Washington Post:
This month, in a widely celebrated opinion written by Judge Richard Posner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit declared that it had “no reason to think [the governments of Indiana and Wisconsin] have a ‘reasonable basis’ for forbidding same-sex marriage.”
This is remarkable. According to this court, the millions of citizens who passed marriage amendments in more tha...
Audio: Peter LaBarbera attempts to deny 'hate' by repeating his extremely hateful quote
When the professional anti-LGBT activists attempt to argue against a "hate" charge, they typically focus on milder parts of their work life so that they can distract the casual observer with more loving acts and phrases rather than some of their worst hits. But this attempt by longtime activist Peter LaBarbera is just plain funny in its attempt to sidestep the "hate" claim by citing one of the most hateful dismissals of gay-headed families imaginable:
In this quote, Peter is saying that people...
Duggars promote discriminatory bakers, improper pluralization
Aaron and Melissa Klein are the proprietors of the now-closed Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the Oregon bakery that caught national attention for unlawfully denying a lesbian couple who sought their business. The Kleins have admitted that they discriminated because they believe homosexuality is a sin, and they have owned up to the fact that they turned away other gay customers before they were finally called out for doing so. They also recently baked cakes for a very fringe "ex-gay" organization, ad...
AFA's Fischer links 'raping puppy' headline to sexual orientation, 'born this way' arguments
The link within his tweet points to this headline:
The tweet itself, which is a clear attempt by the rabidly anti-gay American Family Association senior analyst to like bestiality to homosexuality, reads like so:
Because that's what people like Fischer do, and increasingly so. They are on a quest to diminish the "born this way" argument and the very idea of homosexuality as a sexual orientation by positioning it as a mantle onto which any and everyone could theore...
Photos: Scientifically-discredited, deeply offensive junk science presented as truth as #VVS14
The Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit is probably the most anti-LGBT political conference on the calendar. That is not news. Everyone who knows politics knows how exceedingly hostile this annual conference is; anyone who suggests otherwise is being willfully disingenuous. Despite its ability to keep pulling in mainstream conservative figures, VVS is an event that considers the mission of happy, accepted, protected gay people to be its antithesis.
This is why, year after year, you w...
E.W. Jackson will never accept truth of marriage equality; reality remains blissfully independent of his blessing
Speaking at the annual event that most ably drains moderate support from the Republican party, the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit, one E.W. Jackson, the GOP's most recent nominee for Lieutenant Governor of the state of Virginia and man who has proudly insisted there's a direct connection between pedophilia and homosexuality, rallied the crowd by demanding that marriages between two men or two women will never be true. Here's the pertinent part, via RightWingWatch:
"The fact of...
September 26, 2014
Video: Not-the-victims who own for-profit business still trying to justify unlawful discrimination
The New York State Division of Human Rights laid out, in excessive detail, exactly why the Giffords engaged in unlawful discrimination against a pair of potential customers. But you know—facts. Laws. Fair business practices. Why should any of those things matter when there is a victim routine to perform?
The anti-gay Heritage Foundation helps the for-profit business owners carry on with the charade:
Video: Freedom To Marry's new ad highlights our divided, unsustainable (discrimi)nation
This ad will air during the Sunday political shows:
NOM makes bold allegation about Oregon's Attorney General, promptly deletes it
This bold claim no longer appears on NOM's blog. The anti-gay group (with no Oregon ties) deleted it just a short time after posting it:
[post was here]
Why the cold feet, NOM?
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**A few more things: The AG's name is Rosenblum, not Rosenberg. And here are NOM's filings that they mention in the now-scrubbed post:
14-35427 Public Records Request Production by Equality Case Files
