Maybe if they imprinted the words 'no homos' onto crackers? Then we could all be subliminally seduced
The weekend National Post brings not one, but two full page anti-same-sex marriage ads.
Ontario's
Ken Campbell, who you might say is "well known" to the province's homosexualists, continues apace with his endless and endlessly entertaining anti-gay ad campaign. In production values and text font, in its overwhelming amount of text and impossible logic, it resembles the front page of the newspaper published by the Communist Party of Canada, Marxist-Leninist.
This ad calls for Prime Minister Paul Martin's impeachment because he favours gay marriage.
One good thing. I was happy to read, in very small print at the very bottom, a note reading: "Ken has recently overcome two attacks on 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of religion' in Canada from 'gay activists' who filed complaints to the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the BC Human Rights Tribunal over a full-page ad Ken published in a national newspaper in response to the Supreme Court decision in Vriend [that decision required that sexual orientation protections be added to the Alberta human rights code]. The headline to that ad read 'Supreme Court has no business imposing 'bathhouse morality' on the churches and in the living rooms of the nation.' Both complaints were dismissed."
That kind of attempt to stifle the opposition is no doubt why
Focus on the Family's full-page ad includes the sentence: "We believe it's healthy to have an exchange of opinions, and we believe diversity makes our country richer." The diversity line is too funny.
I originally thought it pathetic that the religious right feels a need to plead for its right to speak. But now having visited their site, I see this is part of a full-fledged martyrdom campaign (though I still do think that gays filing human rights complaints against religious folk is a stupid and offensive maneouvre).
In the ad, the text overlapping the large pic of a nuclear family reads: "We try to be open-minded..." And yet, not.