Sickening Video- Gathering Storm

[Duskmelt]

The NOM will be airing a new fear ad which portrays Americans of all creeds stating how they are afraid of gay marriage and what a threat it poses to them. It's absolutely disgusting- it plays on the fears of the watchers with no credible threat in actuality. They even use the icon of the rainbow against us. I have plenty to say against this abomination, but I would be preaching to the choir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp76ly2_NoI

The Courage Campaign is working to fight it.

https://secure.couragecampaign.org/p...rnFearIntoHope

[Rick336]

Same sex couples want marriage equality.

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!



Rick

[marutidas]

Hate to dissapoint them, but the sky isn't falling in Massachussets or Conneticut, and Vermont voted to include equality in its constitution. Nor has the sky fallen the 6 countries that allow Gay Marrige, Spain, Canada, Belgum, South Africa, Norway and the Netherlands. Iowa will learn that gay marriage is a good thing especially all of the money they're going to be making off weddings. Also people get over things rather quickly. You can change the Iowa Constituion as quickly, It takes 2 years to change it and by the time you can intruduce another doma people will have forgotten why they are so afraid.

I would just like to see them try to get this kind of BS on the main TV stations.
You might have gotten away with this 10 years ago but not now.

[marutidas]

I like this version better

[marutidas]

Re: NOM - Gathering Storm

[Unmasked]

The Young Turks covered it as well. What I'd like to know is how the bloody heck doctors are forced to choose between their beliefs and their jobs on this issue. Unless your beliefs include being an rectal sphincter for no good reason, there is absolutely no conflict of interest.

For the record, I support the rejection of polyester. It's tacky and uncomfortable.

[tdogg]

Um, they got this crap on mainstream TV here in CA to get Prop 8 passed. On all the main channels. Using all the usual lies. They will get it done in other states.

So, we need to be ready to respond. Not to go on the defensive but to open the curtain to the lies and deceit of the anti-marriage equality people. If we don't get our ads and videos out there, then this will basically go unchallenged, just like Prop 8 and will have a chance of being effective.

[marutidas]

[marutidas]

[jazyjason]

this vid made me sick. and I posted on youtube. this is disgusting

[RedneckDyke]

Ooooo the scary storm clouds are coming! Mommmmeeeee!

[tymejumper]

It all just pisses me off.

[Petrese]

The good thing is the opponents to gay rights have really already lost. Maybe not for the short term but in the long term. The younger, more enlightened generation is taking over and will vote in human rights including gay marriage because they don't care about the bigotry and ignorance fueled BS of previous generations. And from then on there will be marriage equality and rights for both heterosexual and homosexual people alike. All the inconsequential arguments of whether something is a choice or inborn will go out the window and the more important issue of eliminating discrimination for large groups of people will prevail. I give it about another ten years before it changes for the better throughout the United States.

[marutidas]

Enjoy

[littlebigman]

[labguy22]

I love all the ads fighting back; I would like to see one that says something like:
I'm a doctor who is forced to treat Black, Hispanic and Asian patients or risk losing my job.
I'm a mother who stands by as her son is taught that interracial marriage is acceptable.

For dramatic effect they could even pull on a white hood after they speak.
This ad is totally something I could see the KKK put out.

Any relationship that does not have one man and one woman will always be Less Than...I am so tired of being less than!!!

[offog]

I loved all the comments and videos. Great work everybody!

I think it was a week or two ago that the Colbert Report did a parody of the "Gathering Storm" ad. I wish I could remember some of the lines from it, but I killed myself laughing. Stephen Colbert is so good at making fun of gay bashers. I don't know how many shows I've seen where's he made comments about "the gay agenda" and how gay marriage is "a threat to my happy marriage".

I think a lot of the opposition to gay marriage is based on the conservative zero-sum mentality. It's a fear that if "those people" (women, non-white people, gays) get more rights, then "we" are going to lose rights.

Also, Christian conservatives have been feeling under siege for a couple of decades. They think they have a literal God-given right to run the world, and they're deathly afraid that they've been pushed aside from their "rightful place". Fear often leads to anger. Where do think all that hate comes from, eh?

In the "multiple personality lady" video, she noted that one in ten people is gay. That reminds of something that happened in the Saskatchewan Legislature back in the late 1970s. It was during Allan Blakeney's New Democratic Party (NDP) administration. The Conservatives (Tories) were the Official Opposition. I'm kinda fuzzy on the details because I was a teenager then, but it went something like this.

A Tory guy confronted Premier Blakeney about a news report that said one in ten men is gay. So that means one of the cabinet ministers must be gay, right? So fess up - which one is it?!

If any Saskatchewan person out there remembers this, please jump in.

[u-dog]

Originally Posted by offog

I loved all the comments and videos. Great work everybody!

I think it was a week or two ago that the Colbert Report did a parody of the "Gathering Storm" ad. I wish I could remember some of the lines from it, but I killed myself laughing. Stephen Colbert is so good at making fun of gay bashers. I don't know how many shows I've seen where's he made comments about "the gay agenda" and how gay marriage is "a threat to my happy marriage".

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Go online to http://www.colbertnation.com and you can watch the whole episode. I don't remember what day it was either but it was in the week of April 13. It really was priceless!

[JoanMVhn]

Hm.... Well...
I actually laughed a little bit inside my mind.
While at the same time throwing up. But maybe that was the amount of food I just ate.
We'll never know XD

[tdogg]

Unless everything I'm hearing is wrong, it appears this latest attempt to squash marriage equality may be backfiring. At best it's barely up to a slight sizzle. Seems like even the anti-gay folks can't take this one seriously. It was hyped (by NOM) to be the largest effort to save 'traditional marriage', calling for 2 million activists nation wide and putting Frank Schubert (who led the Yes on 8 campaign) in charge. The hope is to bring marriage equality to a vote (like Prop 8) and 'win back tradition marriage' to Vermont and Iowa.

Sounds to me like it's starting to fade fast. I guess we'll have to wait and see what this group does after the commercials have failed.