Fade in: Archived footage from the late 1990's of Fred Phelps and his followers protesting at a gay teen's funeral. They preach pure hate, their voices at a fever pitch, giving thanks for this young man's death, describing the fate that awaits "fags" and all who "enable" them.
Fade out.
Fade in: More recent footage of Micah Piper, spokesperson for the Church of Michael Archangel, and a group of anti-nova believers. Fervently hateful, the similarity between their anti-nova rhetoric and the anti-gay vitriol of the Phelps clan requires no elaboration.
Fade out.
Fade in: Ragnarockette, Ana Texeira, Jake Korelli, Andy Vance, Tommy Orgy, and Mustang Sally stand in a row, with scores of novas representing various ethnicities and nationalities standing behind them. (Looking very inclusive, permissive, yet serious as only truly liberal groups can.)
Ragnarockette: "Different is not evil."
Ana: "But hatred and intolerance are."
Jake: "You don't need superpowers to make a difference."
Tommy: "Come out. Talk to people. Write your congressperson. Vote."
Sally: "Take a stand to do the right thing."
Andy: "Because no one should be made to live in fear. If you're in need of help, or would like to do more to help others, visit us on the OpNet."
Everyone (together): "We are the Queer Nova Alliance."
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To Whom It May Concern:
I must insist that you remove this offensive advertisement from the airwaves at once. You owe America an apology, first for corrupting its children. I can't even have the television on anymore for fear that my child is going to turn away from God's truth by emulating these so-called heroes. Are you so few in number that you must recruit from an impressionable audience? Shame on you!
Second, an apology is owed for suggesting that those of us who disagree with the sick, perverted homosexual lifestyle are hateful people. I am not hateful! In fact, I happen to love gay people so much that I want to see them in Heaven, but they'll never get there if they continue to be "proud" of their deviation. This isn't hate speech, merely the Truth as revealed to us by God.
I will be praying that you will find the courage to do the right thing and turn away from wickedness.
-Concerned Woman for America
I'll be voting, all right. For MARK GREEN!
Dear CWA,
Please! About the only "offensive" thing about the latest QNA public service announcement was that I wasn't in it.
As for "corrupting" your children, are you so uninvolved as a parent, and so insecure in the "Truth" of your beliefs, that you think a PSA is going to convince your son or daughter to switch teams? Or, more likely, does it gall you that he or she might some day surpass your understanding toward people who are different?
I shudder to think that your children might end up like you, but I recognize your parental rights to monitor what they watch. All things considered, less TV is probably good for them. And while you cannot control whether your children will be gay, or whether they might erupt as novas at some point, you can control how you will respond to these and other developmental outcomes. Would you embrace them with unconditional love, despite what you perceive as flaws, or will you instead resonate with the seeds self-loathing your intolerance has sown and watered? I fear I already know the answer, but I would be delighted to be wrong.
As for your second point, let's be clear: it's not the "lifestyle" you disagree with. GLBT people have a wide range of lifestyles, from flamboyant to conservative, active to sedentary, etc. Specifically, you can't stand that which makes GLBT people GLBT; i.e., their sexual or gender orientation. It is the very act of loving a member of the same sex, or or identifying with the opposite gender (or both or neither gender) that disgusts you and, in your eyes, disgusts God. Dress it up in euphemisms such as "love" and "Truth" if you want, but it feels a lot like hate to me.
If Heaven is populated only by those who believe the way you do, CWA, I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend eternity there!
Love,
Glamora
bravo!
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