Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 89
August 6, 2014
Count the delusions in Brian Brown's latest press quote
[1] NOM has only been around for around seven years.
[2] In that time, the "protect marriage" movement has experienced a truly remarkable demise that took marriage equality from one to nineteen states (plus D.C.) that have marriage equality (and full federal recognition).
[3] Every credible poll from the past few years shows support for marriage equality at at least an even split, with most showing majority backing.
[4] With 2013's Supreme Court marriage decisions, every subsequent state's enact...
Audio: Oral arguments in #Michigan #marriage case at #6thCircuit
The first of four audio clips is up, this one from the Michigan leg (April DeBoer, et al. v. Richard Snyder, et al. ) of today's 6th Circuit marriage marathon. Here it is, in full:
Four state groups on anti-equality side pray for God to 'deliver' gay people from 'sexual bondage'
Ohio's Citizens for Community Values, The Family Foundation of Kentucky, Family Action Council of Tennessee, and the Michigan Family Forum are the four big state "pro-family" groups who are hoping the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will go against civil marriage equality. And to help make that case, they are admitting that "delivering" gay people from what they see as "sexual bondage" is the real goal. Because it always is:
Pray For Marriage [CCV]
Let them see us as broken, and let them de...
What will NOM call its inevitable (and inevitably failed) Target boycott?
Good news from a retailer with a big of up-and-down history:
Target announced its support for same-sex marriage in a court filing on Tuesday, finally putting an end to years of dodging the subject.
The mass market retailer signed an amicus brief in a case before a federal appeals court in Chicago, joining other big companies that have taken a stand for marriage equality. The case deals with legal issues in Wisconsin and Indiana, two states where lower courts have struck down gay-marriage bans.
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His Ohio hunting license isn't valid in NY, so you can't have fifty state marriage recognition
The most obtuse anti-equality argument I've heard in some time:
“To force all 50 states to accept the license issued by one state goes against the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution,” he explains. “I have a concealed carry license here in Ohio, and I cannot take my concealed carry and go to another state. They don't recognize that license. I can't take my hunters license and go to another state. They don't recognize that.”
[Phil Burress of Citizens for Community Valu...
August 5, 2014
Utah AG very worried pro-discrimination side will be seen as discriminatory
With a federal court overturning Utah’s discriminatory same-sex marriage ban back in December of 2013 and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding that decision earlier this summer, Utah’s Republican attorney general, Sean Reyes, has officially filed his appeal asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the marriage case at the heart of the progress, Kitchen v. Herbert. And while the filing (the writ of certiorari) is loaded with the standard bull malarkey that typically fills such filings (e.g...
Reframing discrimination with the Family Research Council
The so-called Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act is that disgusting new bill that seeks a special exception for faith-based adoption providers allowing them to both retain all of the tax-supported perks and benefits that come with such a setup while also flouting nondiscrimination laws that protect LGBT people. It is just another version of the license-to-discriminate bills that have popped up across the country.
But check out how the Family Research Council's Leanna Baumer frames the issue:...
August 4, 2014
Read: Catholic Bishops back tax-subsidized adoption discrimination (*and alienating even more young people, apparently)
They've already spent the past couple of years going after civil marriage equality and fair employment protections, so what are the top dogs at the United Conference of Catholic
Political Pundits Bishops up to now? Why they are pressing Congress to pass a measure that would allow religious adoption agencies to enjoy all of the perks that come from federal contracts (e.g. support drawn from your tax dollars) while selectively flouting non-discrimination laws that apply to prospective adoptive...
