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Sunday, April 12, 2009
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Marriage Video Becomes National 'You Tube' Parody for Gays
This is off the blog site, My Auburn,
and we lift it with full credit to their creativity:
Have you seen the unintentionally hilarious TV ads
from the National Organization for Marriage?
They're the bigoted group behind the $1.5 million TV ad
to convince you that everybody should be afraid that The Gay is taking over the
world, in the wake of the Iowa Supreme Court decision and Vermont Legislature's
action. Now that activist legislators are actively legislating from their
legislatures to legalize gay marriage, religious activists are turning up the
volume on their anti-gay marriage rhetoric.
In an unintentional but hilarious gift to gay bloggers
everywhere, the National Organization for Marriage has even dubbed their
campaign "2M4M." (FYI, adding the "2" in front of the "M" is shorthand for a
male couple in search of a single male).
Anyway, I find the argument that gay marriage is going to
harm my straight marriage just plain silly. Should I be worried that my wife of
two decades might run off with Elton John? I don't think so.
Matt Yglesias put it quite well: "It's not as if straight
people are being asked to give anything up when gay and lesbian couples want to
get married. The lives of heterosexuals will just continue as before."
I guess gay marriage is supposed to infringe on my
religious freedom because it goes against the Old Testament Hebrew God's
No-No-List. Well, so does my neighbors eating ham. And what about people who
cook on Saturdays or who wear cotton-polyester blend shirts? That's going
against biblical strictures, too. And it's no less an "abomination" than eating
shrimp, or by touching your wife or daughter when she's "niddah." These things
would all be equally “unclean” (toevah) behavior - - for a Jew.
Can anyone explain to me why it is okay to ignore these
particular biblical prohibitions but it is not okay to ignore two people loving
each other and marrying the consenting adult of their choice? Moreover, can you
explain why you think it’s any of your business?
Frankly, I feel that the institution of marriage has
already withstood so many socially-sanctioned debasements from heterosexuals,
what with reality television couplings, game shows that reward the outing of
infidelity, Brittany Spears' 55-hour trial marriage, and Christian
"family-values" leaders who serial cheat on their own families with gay
prostitutes -- that I doubt that gay marriage puts the institution in any
special peril. Divorce does, but nobody seems as worried about that.
While I don't agree with N.O.M.'s beliefs or claims, I
have to congratulate them for breaking new ground in the field of unintentional
hilarity. Truly, this is an inspiration and it's ripe for parody.
Editor's Note:
The number of video retorts that have popped up
on You Tube are so many I will be screening the best for publication on
www.nationalgaynews.com later today.
-Norm