Mike Tidmus

Kate Pickert, writing at Time, has a piece up about the viral response to the National Organization for Marriage’s over the top, brain-eating, Christianist zombie-fest of a television commercial:

A Storm Over Gay Marriage

By Kate Pickert

There is a storm gathering. The clouds are dark and the winds are strong.

Apparently, there’s lightning too. Oh, and your freedom’s about to be taken away and you will have no choice about it.

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… “This comes from the heart of people who want to protect marriage,” says Maggie Gallagher, president of NOM.

Well, it’s not exactly straight from people who want to “protect marriage.” The zombie-like figures in NOM storm ad are actually actors — whom in retrospect Gallagher might have some regret over hiring. Shortly after the NOM ad was released, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, got its hands on some of the characters’ very watchable audition tapes. (The audition videos were a huge hit on YouTube, but were quickly removed due to copyright infringement.)

Hysterical. One word, Maggie: FAIL.