annicka: anniehinton: daveholmes:

You can’t make a commercial that says “Cheerios is 10% more nutritious than Corn Chex” unless you can back that claim up. You can’t say “More people chose Late Night Doritos in a blind taste test” unless you’ve actually run that blind taste test and more people really chose Late Night Doritos. But you can make a commercial that says “Married gay people will definitely come to your children’s schools and teach them how to have gay sex,” and that commercial can just air as is. Even when the people who made the commercial admit that they pulled that claim out of thin air, and that it is not meant to be taken literally. You can just put that commercial up on TV and scare a tiny sliver of the population out of their homes and into the ballot box, and people’s rights can be taken away.

This burns me too, but I guess you can look at it from another angle. The people who will believe something like that are also the reason you see “Professional driver on a closed course. DO NOT ATTEMPT.” at the bottom of commercials like this.

Let’s compromise: If the zealots can make any outrageous claim they want under the guise of religious freedom, can we take away that warning telling people not to test out their truck’s brakes at the edge of a cliff for the sake of population control?