Expect more shrieks and wailing from the professional Christian crowd in reaction to a new HRC backed ad which will begin showing on television today. The ad is narrated by Morgan Freeman and draws parallels between today's push for full equality for LGBT Americans under all of the civil laws and civil law marriage in particular, and past struggles for women's suffrage and civil rights for African Americans. As argued on this blog on many occasions, the ONLY reason for denial of marriage equality is anti-gay religious dogma - something that has no place whatsoever in the nation's civil laws. BuzzFeed has details on the new ad:
Invoking iconic imagery of women's suffrage and Martin Luther King Jr., the nation's largest LGBT group will begin airing a television ad on Sunday morning news shows highlighting this month's votes on marriage equality as momentum for further movement on the issue.
"Now, across our country, we're standing together for the right of gay and lesbian Americans to marry the person they love," narrator Morgan Freeman says in the ad. "And, with historic victories for marriage, we've delivered a mandate for full equality. The wind is at our back, but our journey has just begun."The ad will be running throughout the coming week, Human Rights Campaign vice president Fred Sainz told BuzzFeed.HRC president Chad Griffin said in a statement, "This year proved to be a pivotal turning point in the movement for marriage equality and now we press onward with renewed vigor and public opinion squarely on our side. As we continue the march toward full equality in legislatures and the courts, it is crystal clear that the prospect of an equal future is no longer up for debate; the question now is how soon it will arrive."
The ad comes as the Supreme Court is due on Nov. 30 to consider whether it will hear cases in the coming year addressing whether the Defense of Marriage Act or California's Proposition 8 are constitutional.
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