A new homophobic ad
will soon be hitting the airwaves on channels like
CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, though some are calling it laughably
bad.
The commercial, produced by the antigay National
Organization for Marriage, shows a group of actors
discussing how the "storm is gathering" because
same-sex marriage has been legalized in four states. The fake
doctors and church attendants discuss how new advances in gay
rights will take away their "freedom" and make it
impossible for them to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
The ad will run in places like New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island, and California -- states on the front lines of
the marriage-equality movement.
The widely read media
blog Gawker panned the ad and showed tapes of the actors'
auditions, which were less than professional. Gawker wrote that
the commercial contained "infuriating" lies.
Human Rights Campaign
spokesman Brad Luna released a press statement that asked,
"What's next for the National Organization for
Marriage? Will they hire legendary infomercial pitchman Ron
Popeil to hawk their phony agenda? This ad is full of
outrageous falsehoods -- and they don't even come out of
the mouths of real people?"
The HRC has launched a
website called
EndTheLies
that hopes to dispel the falsehoods in the
commercial.
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