Blame It On the Rain
While the New National Organization for Marriage's new ad campaign pushing scare tactics (like lightning!) to warn Americans of the "storm" of marriage equality coming their way isn't humorous by any means, I thought this response to it was quite appropriate. When all else fails, call the Weather Girls.
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"...isn't humorous by any means...."
Huh? What's not humorous about a message of love delivered by a bunch of pod people just beamed down from the mother ship?
A rainbow coaltion, no less.
hah pod people!
LOL! Seriously, though...I couldn't believe the original ad wasn't satire. I mean...really?
genius!!!
and i did find a great deal of unintentional humor in that horrible ad, personally
Me too. And I think the remix should have been altered to say "it's raining Gay"!
LOL well said, Chickensh*tEagle.
How are their "freedoms" being taken away, exactly? How is the doctor unable to do her job (having to prescribe birth control, which is MY RIGHT as a patient?) How is a church in New Jersey somehow losing rights (as far as I know, a church can refuse to marry ANYONE and, in the United States, there IS a separation of Church & State). And aren't they inadvertently promoting - GASP - premarital sex? After all, the pod-hottie drifting down onto the heart-shaped bed didn't seem to be wearing a wedding ring! Where was their pre-Cana anyway?
Pod-hottie was part of The Weather Girls music video not the original commercial.
I think the situation with the doctor (if it's the real life case I'm thinking of) was even worse than denying BC--even though I think that's appalling and should be illegal, I can understand that someone might think that filling the prescription is "murder" of someone else.
Unfortunately, I think this was a doc who refused to TREAT a lesbian patient.
Which, if you follow it to the logical conclusion, suggests that if ALL docs were "morally convicted" to not treat certain people...
well, let's say many poor people, non-Europeans, Muslims, and other undesirables would not be getting treated.
It pisses me off to see people enter medical and pharmocology school KNOWING that they don't intend to save the lives of people they disapprove of.
To my mind, they are no better than assassins.
You're in the wrong field, my bigoted friends.
Here's the page from NOM's website with the "Gathering Storm Background Facts."
I find it difficult to take "for marriage" groups seriously, but ones with the name "NOM"....
It's just too easy.
Okra: "It pisses me off to see people enter medical and pharmocology school KNOWING that they don't intend to save the lives of people they disapprove of."
On reflection, I think absolute fairness requires emphasizing here that this case wasn't about saving anyone's life, but about artificial insemination. It was the two-mommies thing, not unwillingness to heal. I agree, though, that no physician should withhold any treatment a patient has the legal right to.
I feel like even a lot of my friends who are very opposed to gay marriage would be appalled by a doctor refusing to treat a patient because they were gay. I can see some of those friends going into rants about how Jesus would still expect, nay, require you to treat "sinners" as fellow human beings...and how incredibly ANTI-Christian it is to refuse medical treatment to people for ANY reason...
And that's the thing with this commercial. They make the stories as vague as possible in order to better appeal to the sympathies of anti-gay people, but when you dig deeper to what's hiding behind these stories, then you get a picture for just how extreme this group really is. Disgusting.