https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLEF4kRAKQ
What’s great about this ad for Dr. Michael Brown‘s book, A Queer Thing Happened To America, aside from the start to finish urgency-narration from the steak knife infomercial announcer:
1. WARNING!
2. Gays are ruining traffic signs.
3. WARNING!
4. Gays are hating dinner.
5. WARNING!
6. Gays are tricking America into thinking they’re normal black sock-wearers but then–surprise–the fuzzy pink high heel mules leap out of the closet at precisely whore o’clock.
7. Levitating book and dvd combo-pack, searching for a home on real bookstore shelves and, sadly, finding none. Gays.
8. Gays took over devil-science, which the Christianists hated before anyone else because of how it’s already a thing from the devil. But now that gays own all the beakers and all the science words it’s doublefrown time.
9. Gays are drowning schools, TV and the internet in a tsunami wave of aerobics sweat, various penis liquids and Smart Water, then electrocuting everything with purple lightning.
10. This is no book for dummies. It’s got a “hard-back cover” like the ones you get in fine home-schools.
11. Send thirty bucks to “Sid Roth–It’s Supernatural!” Mr. Roth-It’s Supernatural! will make sure your money is put to good use.
Order two, please.
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McMike
WTF? Isn’t there a way the LGBT community can sue for defamation because there are most definitely a ton of scientific studies which suggest our DNA determines our orientation and NOT ONE that suggest it’s some friggin choice.
When you have to lie to make your point then you should know damn well which side you fall on.
Ray
If you Youtube button at the bottom of the screen it takes you to their site. You can then thumbs down the clip which gives you the option to flag it as inappropriate. Everyone should do that so the either take it down or post a warning on it before it can be viewed.
Jeffree
@Dave White: THAT was a kick-a$s, no-holds-barred piece of writing. More, please.
Sounds like a real page turner for the Holy Homo-HatingHuddle. When are we going to see these in the NOM gift-basket?
Tallskin
Wow! This is incredible on so many levels.
1) it is very monty python, I burst out laughing. It’s like a parody. “Holy Desperation, Batman”
2) it shows how profitable religious bullshit is to religious idiots who would buy this garbage. (If this maniac were genuinely interested in spreading his message he’d issue it for free)
If this were released in Europe I think it would have everyone falling about laughing hysterically because of its guileless idiocy. And, I am afraid to say, because it reinforces the European prejudice about the inherent stupidity of you yanks.
Samwise
That was so hilarious I didn’t even feel that familiar sinking into despair that I usually feel when I’m reminded of how widely and viciously hated we all are. By which I mean to say, great job. Sometimes the sarcasm on here is too mean to be funny, or so spot-on it comes off more like real homophobia than like a parody of real homophobia. But this one was juuuuuuuust right. Wish more Queerty articles were this funny!
B
Whatever you do, preserve that video – its just what you need to prove “animus” in court and a great argument for making gays a protected class for civil rights purposes. That is, if the video is not a spoof. Guess they really could find some crazy nut selling a book nobody in his right mind would buy, but who knows?
It has a hilarious follow-up video at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHRD9uwO9U
showing Fred Phelps “preaching” in his “church” with a reporter sitting in the last row (not clear how they managed to film without causing a distraction) and a nice-but-confused-and-possibly-gay young asian guy who apparently came from San Francisco and wanted to join up. He claims to have been there before, but he could be a plant – it was the sort of thing that is “too good to be true.”
NOTE: the follow-up video is NSFW due to Freddie spouting some anti-semitic nonsense, making a fool of himself.
Jakey
Hell, the commercial’s hilarious–having “OnKneesForJesus” just sitting there, context-free, in the top left corner is the funniest thing as far as I’m concerned–but I WANT THAT BOOK. There is nothing like the combined frustration and hilarity of reading garbage like this, it’s a real experience.
Damon
@Ray: Don’t flag the video, just thumb it down. It was uploaded by a guy archiving examples of extreme christians.
Stephen Kelly
OK the name of the up loader onkneesforjesus3 that has to make me laugh
McGullen
Republicans have already done so much to promote a conspiracy theory frame of mind in America, that it’s not surprising so many of them look for signs of the coming gay Armageddon, when straight people will be forced to accept gayness in all its gay, fabulous horror.