This is dumb and kind of contradicts itself: gays already have the same legal rights, like child custody! But this is about children!

When the Truth Needle rates this false there better be an answer ad that basically comes out and points out that their first ad was all lies. Throw in a judge or, better yet, someone like Reagan Dunn or another top name republican.

I love how the comments on nearly every anti-gay youtube ad is blocked.

Not saying that Youtube comments have ever been necessarily enlightening, but their fear of what people might say (even knowing no one really cares what those commenters say) is telling.

Washington United's response: http://washingtonunitedformarriage.org/b…

I can't help but start to do my own riff on the end of this commercial:

Just because you are for segregation it doesn't make you a racist.

Just because you are for gassing the jews it doesn't make you a nazi.

Just because you want to stick a "wand" in a sexually active woman it doesn't make you a republican.

....

Interesting question about political ads: When it's not on-screen actors giving laughably unbelievable readings of their lines, it's voice-over narration that sounds uniformly cunty/dickish. No matter what viewpoint they're pitching. Has it really been firmly established that ads can't work unless they sound like your rejected ex-lover or your sarcastic boss? Is it supposed to be the cartoon devil/angel on your shoulder speaking to your 8-year-old ego?

I was surprised to see a Reject R74 sign in Seattle today, on a greenbelt south of Ingraham High School. I was not surprised to see that nobody as of yet in Seattle has a Reject R74 sign on their personal property.

And it begins. Washington United's response on their Web site is useless. They'd better respond forcefully with their own t.v. ad if they really want to win this fight.

All this commercial says to me is that marriage should be restricted to couples (straight or gay) who have children.

@1
"This is dumb and kind of contradicts itself: gays already have the same legal rights, like child custody!"

That's because it isn't about logic.
It's about providing people with a talking point that they can repeat.
Something that they can use to STOP thinking about this issue.
They don't want to look at WHY they oppose marriage equality.

@11:
Great idea.

However, I'm starting to get the impression that Washington United is going the way of the morons in California. Prop 8 all over again. Ugh.

linchpin, not lynchpin

Here's how some of your favorite posters and slog writers reacted to R-71 polling poorly about this time 3 years ago: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…