Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 78
September 8, 2014
'I'm not a bully' claims man who has carries himself like anti-LGBT activism's biggest bully
If you told LGBT activists who are involved in and aware of "culture war" commentary to assemble a list of the anti-LGBT commentators who most come across like proud and unrepentant bullies, Matt Barber would appear at the top or near the top of almost all of them. Personally I wouldn't even need a second's pause. I isolated Matt's activism long ago, due to its sheer vitriol and personally insulting language—for instance, Matt describes 
gay male relationships as "one man violently cramming hi...
NOM and pal define respect for husbands, wives everywhere
Husbands and wives, you are either dishing out respect in one specific way or you are doing it wrong. At least according to NOM and its Christian author pal:
[NOM]
Get in your tidy boxes, men and women in opposite-sex marriages! And as for gay couples? NOM of course thinks the best way to deliver respect is in the form of marriage bans, bad court decisions, discriminatory actions, and all-around bad mojo.
But since you are asking, NOM, my husband and I do just about everything together, and the...
September 5, 2014
Video: Hourlong AFA documentary features reliable anti-gay activists, propaganda
A Time to Speak from American Family Studios on Vimeo.
True to form, NOM misrepresents (GOP-appointed) judge who dared reject their tripe
In a claim that reeks as much of desperation as it does abject unfairness, the National Organization For Marriage (in likely ghostwritten words attributed to president Brian Brown) writes the following about Judge Richard Posner, the author of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on marriage, and his supposed take on "traditional marriage":
To take another—and perhaps the most egregious—example: We know that the tradition of marriage as the union of husband and wife is nearly univers...
Utah marriage rally: NOM prez, man who equates same-sex parenting with slavery, woman who admits marriage equality is inevitable
In a few weeks, the anti-gay activists in Utah will hold yet another little rally where they hope their ability to gather a few likeminded members of the choir will somehow infuse merit into their empty legal cases. At said event, Utahns will hear from Jennifer Roback Morse, a woman who has admitted that she sees fifty-state marriage equality as being inevitable by the summer of 2015; Robert Oscar Lopez, a man who has one of the ugliest quotes banks in all of anti-gaydom (he loves to equate g...
New from the Laurie Higgins book club: 'Heather Has Two Terminally Ill Mommies'
One of the great things about the Illinois legislature passing marriage equality was that I could pay less focus to the Illinois Family Institute, truly one of the most heinous of all of the statewide anti-LGBT organizations. Though sometimes the rhetoric is just too over-the-top and revelatory to ignore.
In a new article about the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, IFI senior writer and researcher Laurie Higgins railed off a list of books that she would prefer over pro-LGBT tom...
September 4, 2014
Indiana anti-gay activists decry 7th Circuit ruling by using same illogic that court found illogical
The unanimous ruling out of the the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is a strongly worded repudiation of the far-right's ridiculous ideas, including the one that insists same-sex couples and our families somehow do harm to society. In response to the 3-0 opinion (written by a Reagan appointee), the head anti-gay group in Indiana, one of the two states whose marriage bans the court found unconstitutional (Wisconsin being the other), repeats the same sort of offensive claims that the court foun...
BREAKING: 7th Circuit sides with equality, 3–0
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a unanimous opinion, authored by Republican appointed Judge Richard Posner, overturning discriminatory same-sex marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin.
I'll have more to come later, once I get to a computer. In the meantime, you can go ahead and stop your gloating over Louisiana, anti-gay activists.
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Love this part: "Our pair of cases is rich in detail but ultimately straight-forward to decide. The challenged laws discriminate against a minority de...
Video: 'You can but only if your neighbors approve of you;' Right-side-of-history responds to wrongful LA ruling
Louisiana residents speak out against Judge Martin Feldman's very wrongheaded federal court ruling against marriage equality:
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[NOLA.com]
