Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 84
August 20, 2014
Video: To Focus on the Family's Citizenlink, a simple business request = 'home invasion'
Get a load of this false witness:
Let's start with Stuart Shepard's intro. He acts like the couple just took on weddings as a fun way to earn some money from close friends, as if it were some sort of side biz. In truth, the family chose to enter into the wedding business the same way any other event hall enters into this area of commerce: they obtained a license, began advertising their offerings, and turned focus to their bottom line. The business hosts a robust website that details all of th...
August 19, 2014
Audio: Former senior NOM official says we'll have 50 state equality by 2015
From 2008–2013, some of the most crucial years of the marriage equality fight, Jennifer Roback Morse was on the front lines, serving first as a Proposition 8 spokesperson and then in a six-figure, senior role with the National Organization For Marriage's Education Fund. And during that time, she said all kinds of strange and hostile things in hopes of helping NOM stop the fair and right thing.
She's now stopped trying. In her most pointed comments on the subject yet, Morse is now declaring, wi...
Video: Florida AG Pam Bondi advocates for delayed (and denied, if she had her way) justice
There are multiple lower court cases, all decided in favor of equality, that are playing out in the Sunshine State's appeals process. But according to the state's Republican attorney general, Pam Bondi, the Florida courts should just sit around and twiddle their thumbs, fully removing themselves from this process until the US Supreme Court weighs in (whenever that may be).
Here's the insistent attorney general who believes her legislature has a role in putting a ban in the state constitution b...
Audio: Michelle Duggar robocalls against LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance in Fayetteville, AK
Reality TV star Michelle Duggar has a lesbian sister. But this:
MORE: Michelle Duggar robocall tries to rally opposition to Fayetteville’s anti-discrimination proposal [Fayetteville Flyer]
The proposed ordinance would simply safeguard local LGBT people in housing, employment, and public accommodations. Since Michelle Duggar is so opposed, I'm thinking LGBT people and supporters might want to protect themselves from watching Ms. Duggar's profitable TV antics.
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AFA commentator equates homosexuality with blindness, paralysis
Ed Vitagliano, Director of Research and News Editor for the American Family Association Journal, starts his column by professing to "love homosexuals." Then he spends the rest of it saying that our push for equality is "extremely destructive to individuals and society" and that we are innately broken. Heres a snip:
Are we not all broken in small and large ways? As a fallen race, isn't there a web of characteristics about us all that doesn’t reflect the way God designed us? If a child is born b...
AFA's senior issues analyst (again) equates homosexuality with necrophilia, bestiality, incest, pedophilia
The Director of Issues Analysis at the American Family Association learned that a straight morgue worker has had sex with over one hundred corpses. So he took the time to say this:
Thing is, the morgue worker engaged in his acts during the years 1976–1992. So even Bryan's "logic" is broken. I mean, no one would rightly say that gay rights achieved its great victories during those years. You certainly couldn't say gay acceptance reached its "once you cross..."...
'The nation's attic' to get some rainbow-hued light
Our history finds a respected home:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects documenting the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are being added to the Smithsonian Institution's collection Tuesday, including items from the popular TV show "Will and Grace."
KEEP READING: Smithsonian adds LGBT history to museum collection [AP]
As for anti-LGBT history, it remains unclear whether those artifacts will find housing in the Museum of Human-Perpetuate...
Marriage equality's main legal opponents now outsourcing fearful visions to Hollowood
The film The Giver, currently in theaters, tells of a futuristic society that is presented as a utopia but that ultimately reveals itself to be a totalitarian dystopia. Most critics have compared it to other fearful visions like The Hunger Games, due to overlapping themes of young protagonists who reveal truth in a world run amok.
But to the anti-LGBT activists at the Alliance Defending Freedom, the organization that leads the opposition in most every major LGBT court case, there is a more fit...
August 18, 2014
Right on equal rights, from the right
Paul Singer, who has been key to securing marriage equality in New York and elsewhere, is putting his money toward elephant-riders headed toward history's right side:
WASHINGTON — A Republican group tied to hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer plans to spend at least $2 million up to Election Day to boost congressional candidates who share its views in favor of gay rights.
KEEP READING: GOP super PAC plans gay-rights push this fall [USA Today]
A refreshing change from the 99% of GOP super PACS, wh...
