Another bizarre anti-SSM ad

Yglesias:

The National Organization for Marriage is ready to try to mobilize people into a state of inchoate fear with this ad designed to make you think that gay marriage is an urgent threat to your liberty:



The closest thing to a legitimate issue here seems to have to do with the Massachusetts public schools. Clearly, a state adopting a non-discriminatory marriage policy doesn’t actually force the state to teach non-discriminatory values in schools. But the two tend to go together. We not only don’t have Jim Crow anymore, but we teach people that racism is wrong. This is, it’s true, a big imposition on racists. And people who don’t like gay people can be legitimately concerned that the spread of gay equality will create an environment in which their children are less likely to share their own prejudices.

On the other hand, that’s all pretty tautological. But what’s the deal with the woman who says “I’m a California doctor forced to choose between my faith and my job”? What is it she wants to do? Does her faith prohibit her from giving medical care to gays and lesbians? That sounds like a pretty sick faith. And a clear violation of existing medical ethics anyway.

Ben Smith has details about the buy. Andrew has some responses to the ad.

I continue to be puzzled by this type of thinking. I can only surmise it's related to the response I received earlier from a white evangelical:

You have missed it again! And you will continue to miss it. This policy will set up a nazi like behavior towards Christians and other religious groups. We never killed gays or imprisoned them for private behavior but this will now move step by step to deny religious freedom. It will move to jail and finally planned extermination. One right of both Christians and probably other groups as well will be taken away. It will start that we can't discriminate against gays and then it will move for other reasons that seem logical to the secular mind. It isn't a gay thing but rather it is a light versus darkness thing. It started in earnest in the Thirties and it has continued. Abortion was a baby step and this will be another in its plan. We will be discriminated against continually like the last 40 years and it will get worse. This is a collision course towards the policies of the Roman Empire and the Communist era of Stalin. But behind it all is not a human face or agenda. You can't see it because you have lost yourself in this world's agenda and are now blind.

Bonus: the ad's auditions