Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 93
July 28, 2014
On NC's Attorney General and the bipartisan hunt for a 'culture war' off ramp
North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General has announced that he will no longer defend his state's discriminatory marriage ban, as he believes it would be "futile" in light of today's 4th Circuit ruling in favor of equality:
AG Roy Cooper says federal decision in VA clears way for gay marriage in NC [News & Observer]
And he's right. Marriage equality is inevitable, and people who are inclined to care about justice and their legacies want to be recorded on the right side.
But the politics of it...
Read: 4th Circuit strikes down Virginia marriage ban
Since Windsor, we are twenty-nine for twenty-nine in the courts. Here's the right side of history's latest decision (vindication?):
"We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong par...
Man who stands in way of Texas equality works to stunt economic windfall as well
Responding to the obvious-stated report that Texas' economy would benefit if it opened the booming wedding economy to same-sex couples, the state's head of the self-appointed morality police, Jonathan Saenz, wonders the following:
[SOURCE]
Of course the answer is no because responsible researchers prefer to cull their data from sensible study and projections based off the many states that have had marriage equality for some time now rather than the fear mongering of people who collect a paychec...
July 25, 2014
Miami-Dade Circuit judge rules state marriage ban unconstitutional; stays ruling
The voter-enacted ban "offend(s) basic human dignity." Here's a pertinent snip followed by Judge Sarah Zabel's full ruling (the second pro-equality Florida ruling in as many weeks):
14-1661 Decision by Equality Case Files
CWA ably demonstrates ludicrousness of American Christian right's persecution complex
As part of its summer fundraising pitch, Concerned Women For America is highlighting five cases of supposed Christian persecution. Here they are:
[CWA]
The fourth bullet point is, in fact, an act of persecution. It's a human rights abuse. It's disgusting and has earned international condemnation.
The fifth bullet point is, in fact, an act of persecution. President Obama and his state department have called for the pastor's punishment and called for his release.
The first three bullet points? Not....
Video: CBS News hosts '50 Years Later, Civil Rights;' includes marriage equality, obviously
Marriage equality rockstar Evan Wolfson starts talking around 42:00; the whole thing, however, is worth your time:
Audio: White House? Nah. But in race for most anti-gay House member, Bachmann a strong contender
Rep. Michele Bachmann, who once told an audience that homosexuality is "part of Satan, I think," is getting back into the viciously anti-gay game off which the Minnesota Republican largely built her national profile. In clips that Right Wing Watch posted today, Bachmann accuses gay activists of bringing about a "rise of tyranny" that will ultimately legalize polygamy, she predicted that God is going to punish same-sex marriage with "profound consequences that we haven’t yet realized,” and ref...
Brian Brown is the victim, y'all. How many times does he have to tell you?
Remember that kid on the playground who would get so red-faced angry when he was losing a game that he'd dramatically grab his ball, yell, "It's mine and I'm taking it!" and then storm off in a huff to tell his mommy how the better players on the field refused to let him win? Yeah, well:
"It has long been clear that same-sex marriage activists don't want a fair and even-sided debate. They don't want honest public discourse that hears both sides. They want instead the enforcement of double stan...
