Apparently an organization in West Virginia is pushing to set up a ballot initiative this year to ban same-sex marriage in the state by a constitutional amendment. That was an informational video from the campaign… oy…

Please note, I’m writing this, so there’s some sarcasm infused all up in this:

1. Those crazy non-heteros, actually attempting to have families!! Don’t they know that families can only have one semi-attractive woman as the mom, and a portly guy who looks like he spends most of his day in a coal mine for a dad?! Families can’t have a grandmother or an aunt raising the kids. A woman can’t head a household by herself if her husband died or left her. That’s clearly impossible. Gay couples? FORGET it!!

2. Obviously, there are no black, Latino, or Asian people in West Virginia that are in actual nuclear families. In fact, the only person in West Virginia with some racial pigment is the black boy who was photoshopped (aka adopted) into some white family [around the 2:12 mark].

3. God forbid your kid finds out that there are people in this world different than them. I knew from Sesame Street and growing up in a city, that all families are different and that’s actually OK! Some parents get divorced. Sometimes grandmothers raise their grandchildren. Sometimes Cambodian kids are adopted by white families. The point is that  we’re all different, and that’s what makes this country awesome — we’re allowed to be different, and embrace our differences. I didn’t know what happened in my dance teacher Stanley’s bedroom when I was 8 years old, but I knew he had a male partner and they loved each other. Frankly, that’s all kids need to know at that age, anyway. I knew what gay meant for years, but I didn’t even think there was anything “wrong” with gay people until Ellen DeGeneres came out in 1997 and the world turned upside down.

It just makes me mad that there are still people who think like this. Maybe they should actually get to know some real gay people. Maybe then, they’ll realize no matter how different our politics, or races, or beliefs are, we all want to be treated in the same manner: fairly.