Colbert and Frank Rich on the coming Homo Storm

The National Organization for Marriage recently aired an ad called "Gasthering Storm" (catch it here), designed to scare the living shit out of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. The Homo Storm is coming and none will be left straight in its wake.

The ad itself is laughable, even if the bigotry behind it is not. It shows actors portraying real people describing how gay marriage will take away their rights and mandate twice-weekly buttfuckings at the hands of a 6'7", liberal, English/Diversity Studies dual-major from Sarah Lawrence.

But as noted conservative Frank Rich points out in the Times:

This “national organization,” formed in 2007, is a fund-raising and propaganda-spewing Web site fronted by the right-wing Princeton University professor Robert George and the columnist Maggie Gallagher, who was famously caught receiving taxpayers’ money to promote Bush administration “marriage initiatives.”

Describing the ad, Rich notes:

WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”? You don’t need to use your imagination.

Far from terrifying anyone, “Gathering Storm” has become, unsurprisingly, an Internet camp classic. On YouTube the original video must compete with countless homemade parodies it has inspired since first turning up some 10 days ago. None may top Stephen Colbert’s on Thursday night, in which lightning from “the homo storm” strikes an Arkansas teacher, turning him gay. A “New Jersey pastor” whose church has been “turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch” declares that he likes gay people, “but only as hilarious best friends in TV and movies.”

And here, in all its glory, is the Colbert ad

The Colbert Coalition's Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

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