Google just released a commercial for its new voice-controlled “virtual assistant,” Google Home, and the homophobes are freaking out.
The 33-second ad titled Carpool features a family headed by two dads. In it, one of the dads asks Google Home for his schedule, then the other. Based on the results, the couple decides who will take the kids.
NBD, right?
Wrong!
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Naturally, Christian extremists are having a collective meltdown over it.
“Google is continuing its attempts to mainstream the homosexual lifestyle with a 30-second video showing a male couple getting their photogenic children off to grade school,” Steve Weatherbe at the Christian blog Life Site writes.
“It’s just more propaganda,” someone named Gwen Landolt, who heads REAL Women of Canada, says. “It’s an attempt to normalize same-sex relationships using children as props. But it is not normal and what they are not telling you is that it is not good for children.”
Landolt called Google part of the HRC’s “kennel of mad dogs.”
Whenever someone or organization offends against the LGBT cause, she says, “HRC opens the kennel and lets the dogs out.”
Folks on Twitter aren’t pleased about it either:
@wendyvoss GOOGLE IS DISGUSTING & WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE OUT OF OUR LIVES!!! ASAP!! #BoycottGoogle DUMP THEIR STOCK !!!!
— ???~App19~??? (@appraiser119) April 22, 2017
@LifeSite Thousands will read this and fear retweeting for fear of the PC fascists or even litigation by hate crime zealots. What could b mor hateful
— Thomas Venour (@VenourThomas) April 24, 2017
“Children require a mother and a father. The ad is an abuse of children,” Landolt continued ranting. “Google is supporting an abnormality!”
Watch the blasphemous commercial below…
kurt_t
Honestly, why have a fire and brimstone conniption over this commercial when you’re just going to have to do it all over again after Saturday Night Live airs the inevitable parody?
whatevz
these stupid uneducated fake christian conservatives love them their free speech, until there’s something they don’t like, then they’re the poor picked-on victims… they’re the same idiots that support the 70 year old racist perv that brags about sexual assault and gets off on walking in on teenage beauty queens changing clothes, because he owns the pageant, mhm
natekerchel
So what’s new from the far right – they are always in a state of melt-down over something. They use words like ‘propaganda’ – I doubt they even understand the correct meaning of the word, there is no need to ‘attempt to normalise’ anything gay – it already is normal. What is being ‘normalised’ – yet again – is the notion that the promotion of hate and discrimination is acceptable.
GREBS
as a card-carrying gay man for over 50 years, i have to point out that the homosexuality does not fall within the norms of sexual behavior expressed by the majority of the population. so if it doesn’t fall within the norms, it is not normal. on the other hand, it is natural as it is found in nature in all its forms.
CaliKyle
Grebs, homosexuality is both natural and normal. Its simply less prevalent than heterosexuality.
Juanjo
Grebs – homosexuality falls within the accepted spectrum of human behavior. It occurs in all cultures and in all parts of the world. It does not occur in high numbers depending on how the term is defined. It is not detrimental as such to society or the individual in and of itself.
your use of “norm” is incorrect. Norms are societal expectations which guide people in behaviors used in a given situation. For example, it is the norm for two strangers in the United States to shake hands upon being introduced. It is a norm that families gather for a meal on Thanksgiving which will serve turkey and certain other foodstuffs not typically eaten at other times of the year. However norms are not fixed and they evolve. Don’t confuse a sexual identity with a common behavior [norm]. They are two different things. It is as absurd as saying it is the norm to have unattached ear lobes on one’s ear or that it is the norm to have brown eyes. Norms relate to behaviours while sexual orientation is something more then mere behaviour.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@Juanjo: “it occurs in all cultures in all parts of the world”
Not so; unless the study of the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa has been overturned.
DCguy
I always love the fake right wing trolls that come in here and start off the comments with “As a gay man” or some other way to try to establish that they aren’t a fake account.
Example:
“GREBS said…..
as a card-carrying gay man for over 50 years, i have to point out that the homosexuality does not fall within the norms of sexual behavior expressed by the majority of the population.”
————
Not only is that a fake bigoted comment from a right wing troll, but by that logic, the right wing could also say that commercials shouldn’t show Asians, Jews, Latinos, African Americans, because after all, they aren’t “The Majority of the population”.
Yeah, nice try Mo Bro, this screename was too easy to spot.
Heywood Jablowme
@DCguy: But GREBS is “a card-carrying gay man,” so the Gay Authorities must have issued his card and he’s in the Homo Registry!
alanballs
No big surprise here. “children require a mother and a father”, cry the X-tian homophobes (ad nauseum).
Ok, then tell me how you managed to create 2.5 million homeless children in your country (in the USA: 30% of whom identity with the LGTBQ community) and then tell me what you plan to DO about it .
My suggestion to all of you self-righteous, disgusting, despicable, religious extremists is this: STFU
I’m grateful that eventually, ALL of you bigots will croak from your vile hatred, via heart attacks, cancer, diabetes and other methods of self-destruction; and not a moment too soon.
MikeE
“REAL Women”, the Canadian group, is a handful (literally) of 60-70 yr old, bitter, unhappy, old bats, and absolutely NO one in Canada takes them seriously in the slightest.
Drewc
If “children need a mother and father” where is their outrage over single mothers? I’d be willing to bet many of them are single mothers but they’ll rant and rave about a child needing a mother and father. Gtfo. Im sick of these bigots
Richard 55
Homosexual desire in men is normal, natural and prevalent. The reason most men won’t admit to it is because it offends the women with whom men choose to procreate.
Procreating women consider any evidence of homosexual desire in male partners a threat. That’s because a man’s ability to flick the switch from women to men threatens her desire for a nuclear family where she gets to own her man’s sexuality.
Owning a man’ s sexuality is how individual women stabilize a man’s sexuality. Stabilizing men into the heterosexual model is how women as a gender reduce the incidence of male homosexual behavior.
greenmusic23f
Oh look, Brian changed his name.
DCguy
LOL!! @Greenmusic. Spot on!
DCguy
This is why the GOP can’t get anything done in Congress. Look at what they are being told to care about.
“Hate lgbts”
Hate “Liberals”
Hate “Hollywood”
Hate “Women”
Hate “Minorities”
There aren’t any real policies, it’s just a list of people to hate, and trying to push laws that they think will “Upset” the people they hate. There isn’t any integrity of belief in them and hasn’t been for years.
kmoore
You need to add to that list. Hate “99% of Americans” lol. They don’t care about the “average” person regardless of race, gender, orientation, etc. On the wealthy and corporations.
He BGB
Who is the blonde woman killing the stuffed teddy bear?
woodroad34
Kids need a father and a mother? Why? Because that’s the straight paradigm that ignores studies that children grow up as well or better in a gay environment than a straight environment? If children need a mother and a father because it’s better for them, how do you explain these nut cases?
Jere
The “children require a mother and father” brigade are curiously silent on the issue of widows and widowers with children. If this is such a big thing for them, they should be rallying to force parents whose spouses have passed away to remarry within a few weeks or months because children require a mother and a father.
pattygale
These people are the Cafeteria Christians. They choose what they like and what they don’t like from the Bible, making them hypocrites. God is either perfect or he’s not, folks. He created LBGTQ ppl the same as he created straight people. God bless same sex couples who have decided to share their lives with children who otherwise wouldn’t have a family. Anyone who doesn’t see the value and beauty in that is a self-righteous jerk and will be turned away from the gates of Heaven with much disdain.
Ken A.
Blah blah blah, more pseudo Christians full of hot air. Oh, how offensive this cute commercial is. Its not terminal.
chuck
What I’m wondering is why they had to be adorable perfect men with adorable perfect kids? Strikes me as pushing a product to people with income to spend and being adorable as well as heterosexual mimicking makes everything seem more adorable!
Jacques
Great ad. I want to find out more about this Google device. Thank you for your open-mind and open-heart. Congrats
Bob
I wonder where the newly downgraded thousand moms are? Haven’t heard any of their usual screaming and crying.. Maybe they can’t afford a car or computer to get their crap out..
jimstoic
Relax, One Dozen Moms! They may not be gay! They could be queer and in a polyamorous relationship that includes a female or two (or three). Maybe it’s the womyns’ day to sleep in!
sfbeast
Cute commercial.