The Chucksphere

I had the misfortune of coming accross this turd of an ad against same-sex marriage by the National Organization for Marriage. They try to defend their interference with other people’s lives by claiming those other people are going to interfere with them! In what fucked up world does that make sense? It’s not like Obama’s Gay Liberal Stormtroopers aren’t going to pull straight men away from their families and make them bugger each other. It’s giving our fellow citizens equal rights, which horrifies these NOM creeps to no end.

At 0:16, a woman says she’s “a California doctor who must choose between [her] faith and [her] job.” Now, I can see that being anywhere near valid in a debate about abortion or birth control or something like that. But what does this have to do with gay marriage? Does she want the right to refuse treatment to gays? That’s what it sounds like.

New Jersey church guy at 0:22 is being “punished” by the government because they don’t want to perform gay marriages. “Punish” in N.J. Fundie speak meaning “voluntarily complying with New Jersey’s anti-discrimination statute in order to retain tax exempt status for their catering-hall.”

Massachusetts Parent is afraid of her child being exposed to *gasp* differing views!

The parade of people at the end are saying that “those advocates want to change the way I live” and “I will have no choice.” Yet they offer no evidence, and are in fact advocating that we interfere with how other people are living their lives. This is nothing but a bald-faced attempt to prey on people’s bigotry and claim that they are being oppressed because they can’t discriminate against gays anymore. These people are fear mongering, distorting the truth to make it look like some sort of shadowy cabal is out to get the God-Fearing Christian Minority (fear-mongering of this type tends to be a characteristic of the right-wing in this country; I wonder if it’s something about the fearful mindset that drives them in that direction, or if they’re all reading out of the same playbook).

(The Rainbow Coalition part in the title comes from that part at 0:47 where the guy tries to not make his group look like a buch of bigots.)