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Anti-Gay Rights Group Calls its Marriage Campaign '2M4M' | TPMDC

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Now that activist legislators are legislating from their legislatures to legalize gay marriage, activists are turning up the volume on anti-gay marriage rhetoric.

There's just one, ahem, kink.

In an unintentional but hilarious nod to gay sex chatters everywhere, the National Organization for Marriage has dubbed their campaign "2 Million for Marriage". Or 2M4M.

M4M = Man 4 Men, or Man Seeking Men
2M4M = Male Couple Seeking Men

They can't even buy up urls in time


In other anti-gay rights activism news, the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM is in deep shit for this ad:

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HRC | Human Rights Campaign Exposes National Organization for Marriage’s Fake Ad for Fake Problems

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The general argument of the ad is that the push for marriage equality isn’t just about rights for same-sex couples, it’s about imposing contrary values on people of faith. The examples they cite in the ad are:

(1) A California doctor who must choose between her faith and her job

(2) A member of New Jersey church group which is punished by the state because they can’t support same-sex marriage

(3) A Massachusetts parent who stands by helpless while the state teaches her son that gay marriage is okay

The facts indicate that (1) refers to the Benitez decision in California, determining that a doctor cannot violate California anti-discrimination law by refusing to treat a lesbian based on religious belief, (2) refers to the Ocean Grove, New Jersey Methodist pavilion that was open to the general public for events but refused access for civil union ceremonies (and was fined by the state for doing so) and (3) refers to the Parker decision in Massachusetts, where parents unsuccessfully sought to end public school discussions of family diversity, including of same-sex couples.

All three examples involve religious people who enter the public sphere, but don’t want to abide by the general non-discriminatory rules everyone else does. Both (1) and (2) are really about state laws against sexual orientation discrimination, rather than specifically about marriage. And (3) is about two pairs of religious parents trying to impose their beliefs on all children in public schools.

Even Wired has done an article on it about the false testimonials.

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"There's a storm gathering." A minute-long TV spot by a group called the National Organization for Marriage is already spawning YouTube parodies of its grave, Terminator-esque warning about gay marriage destroying the American Way of Life.

But for sheer hilarity, no parody can match the audition tapes for the ad, in which a series of no-name actors stand in front of a green screen and mostly botch lines like "the clouds are dark and the winds are strong" and "I'm a California doctor who must choose between my faith and my job."

The audition videos, uncovered by the Human Rights Campaign, seem too good to be true. But NOM has helpfully authenticated them by sending DMCA notices to YouTube to get them pulled down. Vimeo.com hosted the banned videos for a while, but now also appears to have folded like an umbrella.

So internet rebels are saving the videos with keepvid.com, and then uploading them back to YouTube when they're pulled.

The Wired comments are great:

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Shades of Reagan's "there's a bear in the woods" ad, which tried to make people afraid of the USSR. Except this time, the bear is gay.

Posted by: Will | Apr 10, 2009 3:27:03 PM

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The only thing threatening these people's marriage is the amount of time they spend clenching their sphincters. If your ass was clamped so tightly, you would see storms everywhere too. "Oh God, it was terrible. A storm almost got in my ass and broke up my marriage"

Posted by: God Speed Through Texas | Apr 10, 2009 6:02:38 PM

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The first thing I thought when I saw that ad a few days back was that one could easily replace "gay" with "interracial". Talk about bigotry.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

For a rainbow coalition, there sure are a lot of white folks in that ad. Maybe it's a pastel rainbow?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

There's a hispanic guy in the auditions, but I guess he came across too "ethnic."

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I totally fucking called it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, the parallels between racism and anti-gay (when both are being used in a religious context) are something I noticed a LONG time ago. I mean, some of the same passages being used to deny us fags the right to marry were also used to say that HEY BLACK FOLKS AND WHITE FOLKS SHOULDN'T DATE LET'S KILL EM.

"Love thy neighbor, but kill every motherfucker who is different than you." Leviticus 84:2

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Originally Posted by wvlfpvp

Well, the parallels between racism and anti-gay (when both are being used in a religious context) are something I noticed a LONG time ago. I mean, some of the same passages being used to deny us fags the right to marry were also used to say that HEY BLACK FOLKS AND WHITE FOLKS SHOULDN'T DATE LET'S KILL EM.

"Love thy neighbor, but kill every motherfucker who is different than you." Leviticus 84:2

That's pretty much it. Remember: Jesus loves you — unless you're gay, muslim, jewish, female, fat, alive, ugly, etc., etc.

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