Winner, “Most Ham-fisted Attack Ad”
A reader writes: “This “no on Prop 8” (same-sex marriage ballot measure) video is too unintentionally funny not to share. It had some up in arms about inciting hatred toward religious minorities, but I think it inspires more mirth than indignation. Creepy LDS drones! Fragile, frightened lesbians! Bras flying in the air as they ransack the house!”
I, too, find it more than a bit amusing. I recall a little more than a week ago calling for a little equal-opportunity outrage at the prospect of any faith’s being demonized in America, for which one commenter accused me of having “delusions of persecution.” I didn’t cite any examples further than the ones I had cited already, because I knew it wouldn’t take long before another showed up at my doorstep, so to speak.
The point isn’t that demonization of one group has been worse than demonization of another, past or present. It’s that it’s wrong, and should be called out as such.
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