Jeremy Hooper's Blog, page 95
July 23, 2014
Exxon, infamous holdout on fair and decent employment protections, could be running out of options
Year after year, Exxon Mobil secures its notoriety when it bucks the Fortune 500 trend and chooses to reject nondiscrimination protections for LGBT workers. Thanks to President Obama's historic action, the oil giant might be running out of options:
IRVING, Texas — Exxon Mobil Corp. has said it will comply with the new protections for gay and transgender employees required of federal contractors, while still sidestepping the question of whether it will formalize that by changing the language of...
Oregon baker who refused same-sex wedding cake bakes for 'ex-gay' org
Sweet Cakes by Melissa was one of the first of the high profile bakeries to earn national attention and a civil rights complaint for refusing to bake a same-sex wedding cake. But while Melissa Klein and her team won't make a cake for happy gay people who find love, she will bake for an "ex-gay" organization that tells those same gay people they are wrong, immoral, and in need of "fixing":
And not just any "ex-gay" organization, either. Restored Hope is an extremely aggr...
PFOX rebrands; into group play, seemingly
The silly little "ex-gay" organization known as PFox has updated its look. This is the "gays-should-change" organization's new logo:
Looks like a party, frankly. A frisky one. Careful where you place those hands, boys!
Although I think it's just plain perfect that the junk science group chose maroon as the color for the one boy who left the group. After all:
Hopefully our marooned "ex-gay" will get off his isolated island and come back to his truth.
Audio: Listen to this ADF spinmeister and his anti-gay spin
Jeremy Tedesco of the anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom wants you to know that religious organizations don't actually want to discriminate against gay people. Oh, no, no, you silly thing. Instead, they just want the "right" to penalize you for not being able to meet their "standards when it comes to sexual morality and sexual conduct":
FULL: Focus on the Family
So enraging! The anti-gay, religious-driven, pro-discrimination crowd is so determined to make their obvious hostilities seem like wh...
July 22, 2014
Report: US District judge won't deny justice to gay Coloradans; might delay it, though
U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore, an Obama appointee, has indicated that he will grant an injection one Wednesday that will strike down Colorado's marriage ban. The question now is whether or not he will issue a stay while the matter makes its way up to Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and the six who could theoretically side with equality.
The AP has the story:
Judge Ponders Overturning State Gay Marriage Ban [AP via WaPo]
Should the judge move forward without a stay, marriage equality would open up...
AFA to POTUS: End your 'love affair with homosexuality,' give anti-gay Christians entitlement instead
The American Family Association can't believe the President would do something fully within his executive power to fulfill a commitment that he has always professed to having. So since they could not defeat him and his promises in either of his two elections, they are now sending angry emails instead:
[AFA]
"Preferential treatment to a lifestyle," eh? That's rich coming from an organization that absolutely wants preferential treatment. For an actual lifestyle choice. That they made. To discrim...
Congressional right wing's right-side-of-history whip count: 8–271
And then there were eight:
FLORIDA: US Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) Becomes Eighth Sitting GOP Member Of Congress To Back Same-Sex Marriage [J.M.G.]
The other seven are Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY), and Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA). The other two hundred seventy-one are still relying on the advice of noted influence peddler Chicken Little from the Big Sky-Fall lobby.
NOM, Manhattan Declaration turn Unitarian's anti-slavery, anti-war into pro-discrimination anthem
James Russell Lowell's poem "The Present Crisis" was written against the Mexican War. Lowell's belief was that the war mounting at the time of his writing was designed to expand the reach of slavery, and he spoke out against what he saw as evil.
We should also note that Lowell was a minster with the Unitarian church—a church that is now well known for its welcoming stance toward LGBT people.
But of course when you put this peaceful man and his anti-slavery words into the hands of the National O...
Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera tease America's coming anti-gay street revolts
In a heinous piece for for his oh-doesn't-it-sound-so-tough commentary site BarbWire.com—one that he coupled with a photo of Black Americans being water-hosed, we should mention—Liberty Counsel personality Matt Barber calls for Christians to "redouble our resistance to evil" and engage in civil disobedience against LGBT rights. Longtime anti-gay activist Peter LaBarber is all like, "Co-sign, bro!"
We'll have to wait for the armed militias outside of same-sex weddings. But for now, you can find...
FRC writer: We're not all the same, 'gay agenda' is 'dangerous for the wellbeing of this nation'
Well, at least the Family Research Council is getting a little more honest. D.C's conserva-popular special interest group truly doesn't believe we gay folk are the same as they are:
Well of course FRC hates something related to fast food. They want to be the only ones feeding America a diet of empty calories.
I hear FRC is already pressing other chains to create a new sandwich, the Gays-Destroy-America with Cheese, which is filled with baloney and cooked with hot air. S...
