Cereal Monogamist

My daily outrage

Some group called the National Organization for Marriage produced this ad--I didn't read much about it, but just flew to my blog full of indignation, like The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy after a particularly bad episode of Xena--but from what I understand, it's meant to convince New Hampshire to vote against a gay marriage bill.

UGH.

I picked up this ad from an entry at The AV Club, which is, in more or less equal parts, offended and amused by the spot.

From The AV Club:

Now they're saying that we can't have gay marriage because it would confuse the kids. But you know what else confuses kids? Everything: Time zones. Books without pictures. Cargo pants. Certain hair colors. Jello molds. The magic trick with the quarter behind the ear. Mirrors. Mentadent toothpaste dispensers. Everything confuses kids, because they're kids. So "Will it confuse kids?" is probably not the best litmus test for, well, anything besides toys and Spongebob plotlines (and even then, there's a lot of leeway).

There's another even more offensive video from the same crowd here.

I don't have any kind of organized and well-informed statements to make here--all I can do is send out my inarticulate rage that people cannot STOP telling other people how to live their lives, going so far as to convince other people that gayness is an infection that they and their kids can catch. If two gay dudes in Concord who've been together for twenty-five years and have an adopted daughter in her third year at Rutgers decide that they want to make it official and make their friends buy them new dish towels, how the hell is that of any concern of a church they don't belong to, and people who live in different houses?

Don't even tell me it's not about prejudice--both the church and the state sanctify marriages that flout so-called "Christian values" every day. People who've been divorced. People whose parents disapprove and aren't in attendance. People who have already conceived and/or given birth to children. People who are criminals, including the ones who are in jail at the time of the marriage.

And then for these people to make such unconvincing, specious arguments, through the emotional manipulation of wide-eyed moppets. It's just...gross. STOP GROSSING ME OUT, ANTI-GAYS.

/end rant