SuperPAC Ad Claims Obama Is Working To "Force Gay Marriage" On U.S.
12:33 am - 09/05/2012A new ad from the Campaign for American Values SuperPAC's advertisement claims that President Obama is trying "to force gay marriage on the country." The couple in the ad say that isn't the "change" they voted for, a claim that overstates Obama's position on the issue.
The ad, was first reported by New York Observer's Politicker which tied the ad to Gary Bauer, the evangelical political leader.
Obama has said that he personally supports marriage equality, and he and his attorney general, Eric Holder, have concluded that the federal definition limiting "marriage" under federal law to one man and one woman is unconstitutional. As such, the Department of Justice has stopped defending that provision of the Defense of Marriage Act in court challenges.
Neither Obama nor the administration have taken a position on whether states should be forced to allow same-sex couples to marry, although the legal underpinning of the administration's position on DOMA is nearly the same as that advanced by LGBT advocacy organizations in advancing legal claims to require marriage equality.
The Democratic Party platform, formally released on Monday night, includes support for marriage equality as a plank in the platform for the first time.
Over at the gay conservative group GOProud, executive director Jimmy LaSalvia told BuzzFeed, "[T]he ad has the production value of a public access TV show."
Substantively, he also dismissed the effort: "It appears to be an effort to aid the Obama re-election efforts, because it is totally off message from anything that the Romney-Ryan campaign is talking about. Every moment not spent talking about jobs and the economy is doing exactly what the Democrats want."
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Substantively, he also dismissed the effort: "It appears to be an effort to aid the Obama re-election efforts, because it is totally off message from anything that the Romney-Ryan campaign is talking about. Every moment not spent talking about jobs and the economy is doing exactly what the Democrats want."
Seriously? The various factions of the Republican party aren't even on the same planet anymore. If Romney did win, the first thing they would do is take a good look at each other and proceed to wage a civil war.
Edited at 2012-09-05 07:21 am (UTC)
Alternately, conservative hysteria is getting more and more ridiculous and should be mocked. Why are these guys getting media attention?
I thought super PACs were supposed to be able to afford things like writers and actors ahaha. I swear my high school classmates made better videos for various class projects. That French 2 parody of The Blair Witch Project is Oscar material in comparison.
I FEEL LIKE THIS IS MEDIVEL TIMES.
the suspiciously long pause he gave before answering was unintentionally hilarious too
Obama Is Working To "Force Gay Marriage" On U.S.
"LOL, one can only hope; it's only a civil rights issues, and all" should be the stock answer to this trite, bigoted fearmongering. Oh, and that "pork-eating" church/state analogy macro.
In response to John Salem’s Aug. 19 letter, “It’s difficult to choose between Saland, Di Carlo.”
It’s not difficult at all. In fact, it’s a slam dunk. For those who think same-sex “marriage” is a trifling matter, please take the time to think about the sobering effects of state-sanctioned homosexuality on the next generation:
• that sexual activity is not always healthy, as evidenced by the devastating toll on human life by the ravages of AIDS.
• the corrosive effect on children being exposed in school and in society to the idea that they can “marry” either a boy or a girl when they grow up.
• that this new entitlement program called same-sex “marriage” serves no legitimate purpose for the greater good — unless one considers Andrew Cuomo’s presidential ambitions to be the “greater good.”
• that same-sex “marriage” implicitly denies posterity a framework for the raising of biological offspring.
• that same-sex “marriage” implicitly denies the right of children to be raised by their biological parents.
Will the Mid-Hudson Valley’s economy matter in the long run if our human capital is compromised in this way?
It’s time to retire state Sen. Steve Saland and pass the baton to the more responsible statesman, Neil Di Carlo. Maybe you’ve seen his yard signs around — that is, the ones that have not been surreptitiously absconded with. That leads to a final question: Are Saland’s supporters so worried about his chances that they must resort to petit larceny and interfering with an election? - Linda Cebrian, Rhinebeck
Or something like that, that's just what I heard, somebody said that (it was me).
It's like an SNL parody, it's so bad.
But, I'd like them to tell my religious, hard-working, compassionate, charitable mother and father about how they lack family values because they love and support their gay daughter.
I'll watch from a distance.