Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Values Voters Vomit

The homophobic lobby’s celebrity invitation list offers a good laugh:

So what if we told you that we are going to host an event, and at said event, there’s a possibility that Jon Stewart, Rosie O’Donnell, Barack Obama, Chelsea Clinton, and the reincarnation of Harvey Milk will be in attendance. That might pique your interest, right? And it might prompt you to fork over some cash for our soiree, yes?

But what if the only basis we had for telling you that these people might be in attendance is that we had sent them an invite? Would that change your opinion just a bit? And would you consider us a little disingenuous for implying that the aforementioned people were going to show up, when reasonable expectations tell us otherwise? Probably, right?

Well, that is exactly what the anti-gay Family Research Council is doing in the promotional materials for their annual Values Voters Summit. In order to drum up sales, the group is running a promo page of pics featuring 24 named speakers. Only problem? Only 10 of these names—ones that mostly make up the lesser-known, more conservative contingent—have actually confirmed that they’ll be in attendance.

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