NationalOrganizationforMarriage.com

Seriously, go visit NationalOrganizationforMarriage.com ...

...just not at work, or anyone you actually like, or, well, anyone at all. Seriously. In fact, just open it at home with your own computer with no one else around. Well, I guess it's not that bad. But sort of. Weird looks, uncomfortable at the water cooler type looks... not so much "getting fired" type of looks, but perhaps. Or you could get a promotion, depending on the leanings of your boss.

Hey, it's flying around the blogosphere. Thought it was funny. I wonder how long it will be up?

NOM AD!

I don't know how I missed this ad from NOM, but thanks to Blake J. for posting it on his facebook.

I really dislike the National Organization for Marriage, for some reason. And I agree with one of the YouTube commentors: "Yea, but Anna and Eve would be so much hotter."

NOM Talking Points

I'll admit, this was the first time I bothered to look at the National Organization for Marriage's website, but they have a great site on there called "Marriage Talking Points," and I just had to share some of the better ones with you:

Language to avoid at all costs: "Ban same-sex marriage." Our base loves this wording. So do supporters of SSM. They know it causes us to lose about ten percentage points in polls. Don’t use it. Say we’re against “redefining marriage” or in favor or “marriage as the union of husband and wife” NEVER “banning same-sex marriage.”

IE: We know that people disagree with us and people are, overwhelmingly, starting to think that SSM isn't all that bad... let's play with their minds then and cover up what we are really trying to do.

5. Why do you want to interfere with love?

A: “Love is a great thing. But marriage isn’t just any kind of love; it’s the special love of husband and wife for each other and their children.”

We are jealous people and you cannot have what we have! WAH!!!!!

7. Isn’t divorce the real threat to marriage?

A: “High rates of divorce are one more reason we should be strengthening marriage, not conducting radical social experiments on it.”

Radical social experiments?! Abso-fucking-lutely bizarre.

Anyways, a little bit of annoyance for your day. NOM NOM NOM -- which is internet slang, btw, for eating -- NOM NOM NOM.

2M4M.org

Apologies if you've seen this all ready, but the National Organization for Marriage has announced its "2 Million 4 Marriage" campaign -- that is, ahem, "2M4M." For the uninitiated, "m4m" is internet lingo for "men for men" (looking for sex), and "mm4m" (or "2m4m") is two men looking for sex with another man. Seriously not joking.

Then, the NOM forgot to register 2M4M.org, so someone else did, with this stated purpose:

Well, it is unused no longer. Welcome to 2M4M.org, or Two Men For Marriage. This site will present the facts about marriage equality as a counter to the fear, uncertainty and doubt being sown by the opponents of equal rights.

Undoubtedly, it will be a huge success, and the joke that is the National Organization for Marriage continues onward.

I'm doing everything in my power not to label this "Stupid Joke Saturday." Sad part is... none of this is a joke, to someone. I can just imagine the office: "Who the f*ck didn't look up what m4m stood for?!"

NOM's Gathering Storm

I had actually made a conscious decision not to post this, since it has been reiterated on every other blog in the world, but a Time article brought up an excellent point that I had noticed when I watched the National Organization for Marriage little commercial:

For now, "a rainbow coalition of people of every creed and color are coming together in love." Just not that specific rainbow. Or that kind of love.

Hey, I thought it was funny. Who writes these things anyways?

Oh, and I have to agree with ... who posted it? ... ahhh, yes, my favoritest blogger in the world these days, Bil Browning, about the "controversy" surrounding the actor audition tapes:

It's the entire essence of the advertising campaign that needs to be addressed thoroughly. Concentrating on one minute section of the laundry list of offenses is a sure way to miss an opportunity to advance LGBT rights. After all, that's the big picture.

In short: you're missing the point when you criticize the commercial's audition tapes. Critique their points, not the fact that the actors are, well, actors. (As it says clearly on the screen, note the image from Bilerico below.)