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A Gathering Storm of Viral Videos on Gay Marriage!

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The issue of gay marriage is always good for controversy and lots and lots of rancorous lobbying on both sides of the issue. These days, of course, that includes a battle of online videos.

A few weeks ago, a group called the National Organization for Marriage put out a striking video commercial called “A Gathering Storm.”

In it, with a backdrop of menacing clouds, a clutch of people talk about their fears about allowing gay marriage.

It has garnered 576,319 views so far.

Now, a passel of celebrities on the Funny or Die comedy Web site has released a spoof version of the NOM commercial, called “A Gaythering Storm.”

It features a “gay rain army” and a giant gay repellent umbrella. Oh, snap.

It has 440,616 views, although it just went up yesterday.

Here are both of them, so you can vote with your click. But watch both, whatever you think–and that includes you, Miss California!

NOM:

Funny or Die:

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  • David Fox

    If you want funny, check out Stephen Colbert’s ad. “Did you know that if all 50 states approve gay marriage, straight marriage becomes illegal?” “Yes, I heard that somewhere!” http://www.towleroad.com/2009/.....other.html

  • David Fox

    Actually, its less funny but more biting. Growing on me…

  • http://www.jamesbeswick.com James Beswick

    Excellent spoof…

  • mikael fata

    Okay i vote for the funny or die video. What I dont understand is how will gay marriage hurt straight marriage, this just doesnt make sense. Sounds to me like it just a great way to raise fear in people and cover the real issues.

  • Frank Saige

    One video gave arguments with examples, granted with a hokey, scary storm metaphor. The other just mocked the metaphor and was argument-free.

    Homosexuals and their allies have made the assertion that “gay marriage” doesn’t have any effect on people who don’t agree with it. That was the point of mocking the Gathering Storm” video.

    But it does have many effects:

    Children in families that believe homosexuality is wrong are indoctrinated by the schools to approve of it and to redefine traditional morality as bigotry.

    Businesses with moral objections are forced by the government to provide wedding services that go against their conscience.

    Doctors are forced by the government to provide in vitro fertilization for relationships that they believe would be harmful to the raising of children.

    There is a climate of hate and thuggery engendered on the left: Pastors have been threatened; speaking out in public against gay marriage has resulted in people losing their jobs; Individuals and businesses are being targeted for harassment by Prop 8 opponents; parts of the Bible have been treated as hate speech by the government in states with gay marriage.

    Billboards have been taken down by government decree; peaceful protesters have been arrested for “hate crime.” Even beauty queens have had their crowns snatched off their heads.

    You can disagree with (or mock) any of these conflicts that arise from providing a place in civil law for gay marriage, but you can’t say they aren’t happening. But, of course, that is exactly what proponents continue to say anyway.

    The fact is, legal scholars who SUPPORT homosexual ‘marriage’ ADMIT that religious freedom and free speech will be severely inhibited where homosexual ‘marriage’ becomes the law of the land. They simply accept these outcomes as a desirable trade-off.

    But WE don’t have to, yet….

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