Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 75
September 15, 2014
READ: HRC's 'Export of Hate' report puts American activists on notice
And now more on the American anti-LGBT activists (Brian Brown, Robert Oscar Lopez, Peter LaBarbera, etc.) who are taking their frustrations here at home, cashing in their frequent flier miles, and looking for better chances overseas:
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*EARLIER: 'Yahoo! News' notes NOM's shocking turn toward global extremism [G-A-Y]
NOM president joins NARTH's VP of operations at Utah conference
Brian Brown is the president of the National Organization For Marriage, the national group that pretends it is focused on policy rather than personal animus toward LGBT people. David Pruden is the VP of Operations at NARTH, an organization that unapologetically pushes the idea that gay people can and should "change" their sexual orientations through scientifically discredited therapy efforts.
The two men are right next to each other on the bill for a "family" conference that will be held in Pr...
'Yahoo! News' notes NOM's shocking turn toward global extremism
Just last week, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown was back in Russia stirring the pot against LGBT rights. A great new report from Yahoo! News, which builds off work from the Human Rights Campaign (for whom I first revealed NOM's plans to launch an International Organization For Marriage), makes note of the American anti-equality organization's quickly accumulating passport stamps and the overall global trend of their associated movement:
[Brian] Brown is just one of man...
September 12, 2014
Anti-gay American Family Association claims the discriminatory business owner is our modern-day Hester Prynne
We all know that the anti-LGBT activists have made a movement-wide choice to pretend that those who are called out for their attempts to discriminate are the real victims and that the citizens who suffered the embarrassing, unfair, and unlawful denial of service as the bullies. And we all know why: it's because they are now very much on the defensive in the larger conversation and need some way to shirk responsibility for the harms that they favor.
What's funny is watching the ways they try t...
Focus on the Family fundraising at intersection of self-centeredness and anti-gayness
You all, homosexuality is personal to the anti-gay activists at Focus on the Family. Here, let them tell you all about it in a Friday afternoon attempt to raise funds off the fallacious and offensive idea that gay people can and should "leave" their sexual orientations:
A few things:
Cool stock photo of a man with his back to us. We were totally going to trust scientific consensus, the sweeping majority view of actual gay people who know what it's like to actually be gay, and the common sense s...
Count the lies in this Values Voter Summit description
This is a writeup for a breakout session that will be held in two weeks at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit:
#1: It's not just "the left" that believes marriage equality is inevitable. Prominent activists who were on the front lines of the "protect marriage" fight, like Maggie Gallagher and Jennifer Roback Morse, have admitted that fifty-state marriage equality is inevitable.
#2: The four most recent marriage votes have gone for equality, not discrimination. So no, y...
Video: If nothing else will get you to 'Ex-gay Awareness Dinner' then this will—not do the trick either
Last year's "Ex-gay Awareness Month" was known best for being a total bust. But if at first you don't succeed, make a really cheesy promo that strategically avoids showing the small crowd:
Aware that anti-gay conservatives like Mat Staver and Harry Jackson support the "ex-gay" movement because it plays into the "love the sinner, hate the sin" view that they use to detach their activism from the actual human beings they harm? We're actually all aware of that, kiddos.
Video: Bill Donohue on early '90s gay 'animals' and their 'Nazi-like invasions'
Extreme anti-gay activist Bill Donohue is all over the media right now stomping his feet about the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade's decision to allow one LGBT group to march (for now) in next year's parade. In order to sell his narrative, Donohue has implied that gay people can't be trusted to march in such parades because gay people can't be trusted to keep their clothes on. Now, to further "prove" his point, Donohue is relying on some personal photos of gay "animals" that he's appar...
September 11, 2014
Survey: Catholic leadership's never-ending attacks on gay people's peace is regressing church's acceptance levels
Earlier today, I showed you how Chicago's Archbishop is now equating the accommodation of LGBT consumers in the public square with forced Sharia Law. And you surely know how Bishops across the nation are essentially now de facto political activists who voice strong opposition to marriage equality (in some states, Catholic leadership has essentially guided the anti- side's marriage campaigns), employment nondiscrimination laws, and just about any civil policy that would make LGBT people's live...
