So i just found out from noonprop8.com that none other than SAMUEL L JACKSON narrates the newest (and in my opinion, best) No on 8 TV ad.
This is amazing. I can’t even grapple with the intensity of this discovery. It’s like fighting against something for so long and then suddenly freaking Mace Windu arrives and cuts down an entire army of clones. (Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. Anyone who saw the Star Wars: Clone Wars Cartoon Network series…anyone quite as dorky as me…No, okay, let’s just…I never said that.) Anyway, his BAMFness alone should tip the scale in our favor, and if not, well, maybe those fundamentalist Christians should get a chance to meet Neville Flynn/Jules Winnfield/Mace Windu/Shaft/Rufus…dude, Ionno what I’m saying, the guy is just a freaking bad-ass. I think the fact that the King of BAMFs narrated our ads gives us like, win-status.
But other than recognizing the amazingness of Samuel L Jackson, this has a point. The Yes on 8 people go on and on about how gay marriage is being “imposed” on them, and how they shouldn’t “stand for it.” Well all I have to say is, WHAT HYPOCRITES. Besides the obvious assessment that it is their bible-based beliefs being imposed on the rest of US, why don’t we just take a look at some of the tactics their campaign have taken up?
Today, for instance, after leaving B101 to go to my car in the parkinglot, I look up at the beautiful, partly-cloudly sky and what do I see? “YES ON 8. PROTECT TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE.” In sky-writing. Seriously? That made me so angry–I mean, it’s such a nice day, I should be able to look up at the sky without being bombarded by these people imposing their views on me. It’s the sky, people. Stop imposing your beliefs on my sky!
Not only that, but while waiting for the new Questionable Content to be posted, I learn that Yes on 8 ads are appearing on websites that DO NOT affiliate themselves with the campaign. In fact, Jeph Jaques of QC is decidedly against prop 8, and was and I quote, “genuinely horrified” to find the ads on his site. He has since, rightfully, asked google to take the ads down and has put up No on 8 ads in their place (he also says he will be donating any profit made from yes on 8 ads to GLAAD). It is well and fine to campaign on sites that want to take up your position, but what right do these people have to impose their beliefs on sites whose webmasters are not only non-affiliated, but in fact AGAINST said beliefs. And QC isn’t the only site that has been accosted by Yes on 8 ads. It’s been happening to users of InsaneJournal and, I’m sure, other sites.
Honestly, I cannot think of a way the Yes on 8-ers have failed to impose themselves on me, today and for the duration of the campaign. It’s downright violating and it disgusts me that these people feel the need to hammer their belief into us in these underhanded ways. We get it. You don’t like gay people. Now let me enjoy my pretty fall day and my quasi-humorous indie webcomic in peace!
Don’t forget to vote no on 8 tomorrow. Or like, don’t forget retroactively, Erica, since you already sent in your ballot.
