Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 77
September 9, 2014
Video: Oregon: Republican candidate for US Senate comes out for marriage equality
Dr. Monica Wehby is the GOP nominee vying against Democrat Jeff Merkeley for the US Senate he currently holds. She's making the right side of history part of her right wing platform:
Audio: NOM's former counsel says God can't 'stay his hand of justice' if we keep 'testing' him with gayness
Charles LiMandri was the National Organization For Marriage's general counsel during its foundational years and during its Prop 8 fight. Maggie Gallagher has touted the virtues of her friend and currently serves on the board of his new organization, the "ex-gay"-defending Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund.
Now listen is as LiMandri, key NOM personality from day one, suggests that God is going to destroy us because of gay acceptance. The subject here is a pro-gay comedic play:
"There's a concep...
AFA hopes to punish Target the way NOM's already failed to do
The National Organization For Marriage announced a boycott of pro-gay retailer Target but then just kind of shut up about that plan once they saw how go-nowhere it was. But leave it to their anti-gay allies at the American Family Association to step in and pick up the boycott ball. The SPLC-designated hate group claims that the popular stores must be punished for mocking God:
This is a company whose leaders make a mockery of marriage. They make a mockery of God's Word - and every Christian in...
September 8, 2014
American Family Association's senior analyst, most visible spokesman repeats enthusiasm for criminalizing homosexuality
Gambia has passed a bill that would attach life imprisonment to the charge of "aggravated homosexuality." "It can be done," enthusiastically cheers the star voice of one of America's top "pro-family" groups:
[AFA senior issues analyst Bryan Fischer]
I will remind you that the AFA's action arm is one of the main sponsors of the Values Voter Summit, an event where any number of GOP governors, members of the U.S. House and Senate, and thought leaders are once again scheduled to appear. And Bryan F...
Video: Full 2.5 hrs of #NinthCircuit arguments in HI, ID, NV marriage cases
I was only able to pop in and hear some of today's historic marriage arguments at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Every time I did, longtime anti-gay activist/lawyer Monte Stewart (who argued on the wrong side of ID and NV) was making some sort of truly offensive point about same-sex parents and our supposedly subpar status (while denying he was doing that), and none of the three judges seemed to be buying what he was selling. Sounded pretty promising to me.
Listen to as much or as little...
Audio: Man who fights to relegate LGBT rights to a museum pissed that they're being recognized there
Family Research Council president, key Republican operative, and Megyn Kelly's regular Fox News commentator, Tony Perkins, has branded the Smithsonian an "unnatural history" museum for featuring LGBT rights. And all without mentioning "the harmful side effects of homosexuality," bemoans Tony.
RightWingWatch caught the clip:
Oh Tony, just wait until the 2065 museum's loopback at the 21st fight against anti-gay discrimination. That one is going to upset (and prominently feature) you so much more...
Does NOM's chair not even know how many of his beloved bans are still sullying our states?
Here's National Organization For marriage chairman John Eastman speaking to the American Family Association's "news" arm:
Eyeing an eventual case before the high court, the NAO spokesman predicts the high court will not "strike down thousands of years of history and the laws of 35 states, and say the Constitution, that doesn't speak to this question, somehow mandated that every state redefine its institution of marriage."
FULL: Optimism from NOM if marriage law reaches Supreme Court [ONN]
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After seventy-two years together, lesbian nonagenarians finally destroy marriage for straight twentysomethings
Vivian and Nonie are awesome:
Vivian Boyack and Alice "Nonie" Dubes say it is never too late for people to write new chapters in their lives.
Boyack, 91, and Dubes, 90, began a new chapter in their 72-year relationship Saturday when they exchanged wedding vows at First Christian Church, Davenport.
KEEP READING: 2 Q-C women marry after 72 years together [QC Times]
"But they can't make a baby!" screams a nearby social conservative before slowly realizing the procreation card is no the best one to p...
