Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 83
August 22, 2014
Florida pro-discrimination activist John Stemberger's history leaves no room for LGBT people
John Stemberger is an aggressively anti-LGBT man who has been responsible for most of the hostile efforts we've faced in the Sunshine State over the past decade. He's also the founder of the anti-gay scouting group that launched simply because the Boy Scouts began accepting gay youth. So it's no surprise that that he's unhappy with the fifth ruling in his state—four state courts and one latest federal decision—to declare the discriminatory marriage amendment that he championed to be unconstit...
August 21, 2014
Read: Federal Judge strikes down Florida marriage ban; stays ruling
U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle (a Clinton appointee) just issued a strong order in favor of both in-state marriage and out-of-state recognition, yet again dealing a blow to Florida's already vulnerable marriage ban:
4:14-cv-00107 #74 Florida Preliminary Injunction by Equality Case Files
This federal ruling comes joins four state court rulings in favor of Florida equality. A couple more and the other side has to automatically forfeit, right?
Video: Southern Baptists promote upcoming anti-gay (and pro-'ex-gay') conference
Because nothing else important is going on it the world, the Southern Baptist Conventions Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is dedicating its entire national conference—the whole damn thing!—to us. Namely, they will spend their time scheming ways to stop our marriages and, ideally, stop us from even being gay:
She's an "ex-gay":
This guy has compared his claimed "good" of preaching against homosexuality circa 2014 with the actual good of preaching against slavery in the 1860s
But don't for...
The marriage debate per anti-LGBT, pro-discrimination activist
After spilling more ink pretending that the Liberty Ridge Farm owners are simply "farmers" when they are in fact business owners, and once again attempting to conserv-splain why religious people should be free to flout fairly enacted nondiscrimination laws that apply to LGBT people (an impossible carve out), Ryan Anderson, Heritage Foundation thinker and man who has admitted he thinks gay people are called to be celibate, wrote the following about this debate and its supposed break down:
AFA's daily prayer equates homosexuality with incest, bestiality, pedophilia
Every morning the American Family Association offers a daily prayer to its supporters. Here is what the AFA, the official sponsors of an upcoming summit featuring some of the top conservatives in the nation, have to say this A.M:
We know that much sexual sin has been committed in our community and nation. We repent of all acts of incest, adultery, homosexuality, pedophilia, and bestiality. We acknowledge that such things are detestable to you, and that they are perversions of your intentions f...
August 20, 2014
Scott Lively's new mission: Making America's churches super-duper extra anti-gay
On apparent break from stirring up global animus and his crimes against humanity trial related to said efforts, Massachusetts pastor, rabid anti-LGBT activist, and gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively is determined to make America's churches even more hostile to homosexuality. To accomplish this, he has rounded up and demanded his own personal interpretation onto a handful of biblical passages which he says proves that gay people are in "extreme rebellion":
MY GOD CAN BE UP YO...
BYU protects the sanctity of pre-printed greetings
After some same-sex wedding cards were accidentally stocked in an on-campus bookstore (which contracts with gay-friendly Hallmark), the intensely Mormon Brigham Young University stepped in and removed the "offending" items before anyone could lick any of their back flaps:
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Greeting cards celebrating same-sex marriages turned up at the Brigham Young University bookstore Tuesday.
MORMON SCHOOL REMOVES GAY-MARRIAGE CARDS AT STORE [AP]
Because you wouldn't want a place of higher...
Breaking: Supreme Court delays fairness, justice in Virginia
The US Supreme Court has extended the stay on the 4th Circuit's pro-equality marriage ruling, meaning same-sex couples will not be able to marry in the Commonwealth starting tomorrow, as they had planned.
Justice again delayed; justice again denied. Indignity, our familiar friend, sticks around a little bit longer.
Chris Johnson has the full report: BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks Virginia same-sex marriages [Wash Blade]
Negligent anti-LGBT voices determined to eliminate *all* nondiscrimination laws
What follows is the "logic" of Randall Wenger, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Family Institute for why business owners should be free to deny LGBT customers whenever they are feeling too religious-y to sell them an item they purport to sell:
"True tolerance should mean that we're free to live according to our beliefs without being fined or forced out of business"
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"It's not as if somebody can't go out and buy a wedding dress or get a cake baked"... "The issue is whether those who have a c...
