Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 91
August 1, 2014
Brian Brown apparently buying a new dinette set, misapplies purchase to marriage debate
Unlike nearly half of our states, twenty-nine consecutive courts (and many before that), the federal government, and a growing majority of the American public, Brian Brown has taken upon himself to determine that a civil contract between two loving and committed adults can only be called a marriage if the union has the distribution of penises and vaginas that he finds proper. And now he will using dining furniture to make his point ob behalf of the discrimination to which he has pledged his c...
Read: Zack Ford smacks back Ryan Anderson's love of tax-subsidized discrimination
Ryan Anderson's schtick is to pretend we're all too dense to understand his desire to exalt "religious freedom" above fair-minded policy that doesn't discriminate against certain kinds of taxpayers. I know for a fact that my buddy Zack Ford is anything but dense on this or most any other issue of import.
Here the topic is adoption and Ryan's insistence that religious agencies that receive state funding/subsidies deserve the "right" to enjoy this benefit while also pointedly discriminating agai...
God Hates Fads: Radical Bay State group pretends homosexuality is like skinny jeans
MassResistance, the fringe organization that continues to do its thing in the Massachusetts even as the Bay State leaves its discriminatory agenda far in the past, has a new report that purports to "explain" why kids become gay. Coupled with MR's trademark photos of LGBT youth, who they stalk the way an enterprising paparazzo stakes out the Kardashians, Brian Camenker and his cohorts offer this reasoning behind what makes a young person a young gay person:
Most people -- certainly most parents...
July 31, 2014
But does the Archbishop even believe in gay?
While allegations swirl around him, John Nienstedt, the head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who was extremely active in his state's unsuccessful fight to write discrimination into its constitution (they wrote equality into it instead), offered this statement to the Star Tribune:
“I’m not gay,” he said. “And I’m not anti-gay.” [Star Tribune]
But the thing is, if we are to judge him by his own conservative Catholic standard, there is absolutely no substance attached to this statem...
Video: Move over aliens, plagues, Sharknados—it's committed gays who'll soon kill Western Civilization
This man was recently invited to testify before Congress:
Ah, social conservatism: where what should-be a foot in the mouth for a prominent voice is usually just another foot in the door.
Nine former water-carriers for 'ex-gayness' join all credible scientists in denouncing 'ex-gay' propaganda
Earlier this week I brought you my exclusive interview with Yvette Cantu Schneider, a longtime laborer with the scientifically discredited "ex-gay" movement who is now a strong critic of the junk science and its harm. Today I'm happy to report that Yvette has joined eight other former heads of "ex-gay" organizations in order to further drain the snake oil:
(San Francisco, CA, July 31, 2014)—Today, nine former leaders of so-called “ex-gay” ministries published a joint letter denouncing the dang...
The operative word is 'yet'
The head of Colorado's big anti-gay group responds to a court order demanding Boulder County stop issuing marriage license while the matter plays out on appeal:
Debbie Chaves of Colorado Family Action was asked for a response to the state court's decision.
"[I think] that is a good ruling to the issue because our Colorado Constitution still stands and our marriage amendment has not been shot down yet," she responds. "It is still in our Colorado Constitution and should be respected just like all...
Video: Tony Perkins for politically-driven pastors to test (if not run afoul) tax exempt status
It seems like every year that I track this stuff, the anti-LGBT activists gets more assured of their "right" both act like political activists from the pulpit and maintain their tax exempt status. This year, one of the conservative movement's most prominent voices is essentially telling pastors that they can politicize all they want and the IRS can't do anything about it:
If they want a true scandal involving the IRS, then I encourage the conservative movement to very much buy into this track....
July 30, 2014
Ruth Institute (former NOM affiliate): Same-sex marriage is as much of a wedge as interracial marriage bans
The anti-gay movement has fully lost it. In a new post for the Ruth Institute (which was an affiliate of the National Organization For Marriage up until late last year), Jennifer Johnson (who, curiously, was named Jennifer Thieme up until a few months ago) is literally saying that marriage equality for same-sex couples is essentially the same thing as marriage discrimination against interracial couples:
How, exactly, does same-sex marriage "endorse the separation of males and f...
