# "Gathering Storm" - Awful anti-gay marriage commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385 "2009-04-17T04:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/41 "2009-04-21T21:02:27Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > What if there’s an odd number of women in my city? Do I have to wait for the next girl to turn 18? Or can I just marry my cats and be done? You have to pick one cat. And it has to be female. What are you, some sort of Mormon? ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/42 "2009-04-21T21:08:48Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > What if there’s an odd number of women in my city? Do I have to wait for the next girl to turn 18? Or can I just marry my cats and be done? > [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > You have to pick one cat. And it has to be female. What are you, some sort of Mormon? You’re both sick. It’s DOGS that you’ll be marrying, remember? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/43 "2009-04-21T21:59:47Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I can see it persuading **lots** of people… What color is the stormy sky in your world? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/44 "2009-04-21T22:04:27Z")
“Homo Storms”?! Are these a result of global warming? Because, if so, I gotta tell ya Mr. Gore, thats a hell of alot more than “An Inconvenient Truth” as far as this fashion, food, and culture challenged straight male is concerned! ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/45 "2009-04-21T22:13:23Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > “Homo Storms”?! That’s the title of _my_ new disaster flick. Coming in May, 2011. **Homo Storms** (Working title: “That’s Not Rain”). ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/46 "2009-04-22T01:44:45Z")
It is the NOM jabbar. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/47 "2009-04-22T02:37:43Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > A [new spoof](http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/04/21/gaythering_storm/index.html) is up–with celebrities! 😛 Does anyone recognize the older lady in that? She reminds me of Marion Ross but I don’t think it’s her. In any case, I love the fact that the parodies have better production values and acting than the original. I don’t know how much the Mormons paid for the first ad but I think it can safely be said they’d have been better off buying lottery tickets or just filming an anti-gay PSA using Marie Osmond’s doll collection. ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/48 "2009-04-22T02:51:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Does anyone recognize the older lady in that? She reminds me of Marion Ross but I don’t think it’s her. I think it’s Lynne Marie Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/49 "2009-04-22T05:28:08Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > I thought the reason so many hurricanes hit Florida was because Disney lets gays hold events at their park? At least that’s what Pat Robertson says. Orlando, of course, is about as far inland as you can get in Florida, and it would take one hell of a hurricane to do significant damage to Disney World. But such details haven’t troubled Robertson before. Funny thing, too. Disney organizes and hosts “Night of Joy” - actually two nights when one of the theme parks closes early for a ticket-holders-only event featuring concerts by Contemporary Christian bands. That’s officially corporate sponsored stuff. Disney’s only connection to Gay Days is allowing paying customers to buy tickets and enter their theme parks without requiring a Certificate of Heterosexuality. Somehow in the minds of some fundamentalists, this translates to Disney Hates Christians And Loves Teh Gays :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/50 "2009-04-22T06:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > **flodnak** : Orlando, of course, is about as far inland as you can get in Florida, and it would take one hell of a hurricane to do significant damage to Disney World. But such details haven’t troubled Robertson before. Robertson is terribly annoying. But forty or fifty miles inland is not far when you are talking about a hurricane. My husband and I were driving on the interstate near Orlando when the leading edge of a Level 1 hurricane came through. It was raining so hard and the wind was so high that we couldn’t see _anything_ – not even the side of the road. It was really frightening. The storms travel for hundreds of miles inland – though not a hurricane force. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/51 "2009-04-22T12:56:30Z")
So, with this Homo-Storm a-comin’ will I be assigned a Homo of my choice or will it be a Grab Bag assortment? I really need one that can decorate. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/52 "2009-04-22T15:01:39Z")
The ad at the bottom of the page says “Stop Gay Marriage Marriage and Liberty Are at Risk. Learn How to Protect Yourself Now! [www.NationForMarriage.org](http://www.NationForMarriage.org)”. I wonder how _that_ got on the Straight Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/53 "2009-04-22T16:08:40Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > The ad at the bottom of the page says “Stop Gay Marriage > Marriage and Liberty Are at Risk. Learn How to Protect Yourself Now! > [www.NationForMarriage.org](http://www.NationForMarriage.org)”. > > I wonder how _that_ got on the Straight Dope. Well, this \*is \*the \*Straight \*Dope. For no especially good reason, the ad at the bottom of the page that I’m seeing is: “UNDO CIRCUMCISION DAMAGE” which leads me to wonder if NOM is for or against circumcision. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/54 "2009-04-22T18:15:33Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > which leads me to wonder if NOM is for or against circumcision. Based on their acronym, I would assume that they favor circumcision, but only if done with the teeth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Superhero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Superhero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Superhero)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/55 "2009-04-22T18:18:08Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > So, with this Homo-Storm a-comin’ will I be assigned a Homo of my choice or will it be a Grab Bag assortment? > > I really need one that can decorate. Yeah, I’m really hoping that the gay I’m forced to gay marry can help me to be a snappier dresser and help me develop my appreciation of the opera. I am going to miss my wife, though. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/56 "2009-04-22T19:08:43Z")
> [@Linty\_Fresh](#): > > That’s the title of _my_ new disaster flick. Coming in May, 2011. … Damn! That’s going to conflict with the release of _my_ disaster flick: _ **Gays on a Plane** _ “I am sick of these one another fucking monongamus homosexuals on this Monday to Friday plane!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/57 "2009-04-22T20:40:22Z")
Nah, that’s no problem. Similar movies always come out together… It’s like _Deep Impact_ and _Armageddon_, or _Antz_ and _A Bug’s Life_. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/58 "2009-04-22T21:08:12Z")
What is the “I’m a doctor and I have to choose between my faith and my profession” even supposed to imply? Does she hate gays, and only treat married couples to avoid them, and now that gays can be married too she’s in a tough situation? Is she worried about being forced to give abortions to their butt babies? That’s a more specific scare card than “they want to change your life!” so I’m wondering what we’re even supposed to read into that. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/59 "2009-04-22T23:04:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Nah, that’s no problem. Similar movies always come out together… It’s like _Deep Impact_ and _Armageddon_, or _Antz_ and _A Bug’s Life_. Wait . . . Those were separate movies? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385/60 "2009-04-23T01:04:41Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > What is the “I’m a doctor and I have to choose between my faith and my profession” even supposed to imply? “Faith” is her partner’s name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gathering-storm-awful-anti-gay-marriage-commercial/493385.md?page=4)