Perhaps you've seen the ads from the National Organization for Marriage. The ones where they say a really scary storm is brewing and that by allowing gay people to marry Armageddon befall us. Here it is:
Of course the Human Rights Campaign is right on top of this ad, exposing its lies. We know those who oppose same-sex marriage are getting really scared right now. When middle America Iowa legalizes gay marriage, they know they're losing the battle. So they have to resort to scare tactics. That's nothing new.
But what I thought was really funny was that somehow HRC got a hold of the audition tapes for the actors who are in this ad. Rachel Maddow showed the tape on her show. Funny:
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Yikes! I just wanna puke!
Just wow. I was online reading some of the responses to Iowa passing the bill, and there were a bunch of conservative people talking about how it shouldn't be up the legislature to pass that kind of law. I was thinking, wait, just 6 months ago, weren't you saying that legislature SHOULD decide something like that?! Everyone flip-flops, liberal, conservative, etc, but the response was humorous and sad at the same time. Makes me wonder when they're going to let it go and say, "you know what, the laws are in place, we'll live like we will, my neighbors getting married won't kill me; I will marry who I wish and have sex with anyone I want to, and raise my family the way I want, and they have the same rights, even though I disagree." the other day I was talking with my mom about my recent marriage and she was talking about how it wasn't recognized in Washington state, even though we're registered as domestic partners now, and brought up how sex before marriage was an abomination before god, so I started laughing and I said, "but mom, you don't want me to have the ability to be legal bound to Shane (my partner) so you can't argue that I’m immoral." she laughed too, but I’m hoping that I opened her eyes, Mormon or not, to the fact that religious groups can't sit here and point that we're "immoral" (even though that's not the case at all) without giving us some way to BE moral. The whole subject is very interesting....and very very sensitive, but I have so much faith that people see through all the different sides of any sort of propaganda. We'll keep fighting....
And I’m sending my mom my wedding announcement.
There's something wrong when people take the time and energy to make an ad like that when they could be doing so many other, useful, things, and not adding to homophobia and trying to block peoples'right to live a full happy life.
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