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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / LGBTQ Rights / Gay Rights are Human Rights / Late Night Open Thread: Again, with the Projection

Late Night Open Thread: Again, with the Projection

by Anne Laurie|  June 28, 20132:41 am| 64 Comments

This post is in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Open Threads, Religious Nuts 2

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Courtesy of several commentors, Americablog shares “the most unfortunate anti-gay logo and slogan in the history of politics“:

call 2 fall logo via americablog

It’s official: Either their ad agency really hates them, or these guys just can’t stop thinking about gay sexual innuendo. Maybe both!

Details & video at the link (I’d almost managed to put the 2M4M campaign out of my memory… )

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  1. 1.

    Yatsuno

    June 28, 2013 at 2:47 am

    These guys obsess over teh ghey buttsecks more than I do. And I’m a Scorpio.

  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    June 28, 2013 at 2:52 am

    Didja see Gov Goodhair pay his compliments to Wendy Davis?

  3. 3.

    Alison

    June 28, 2013 at 2:53 am

    Oy.

  4. 4.

    Keith

    June 28, 2013 at 3:02 am

    Best comment on their related Facebook page: “Get on your knees and eat the host!”

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    June 28, 2013 at 3:03 am

    @Yatsuno:
    There’s people to whom teh ghey buttsecks is a normal part of life; and then there’s people who can’t stop thinking and thinking and thinking about it, and about how some other people are — GASP 1! lebenty ! — enjoying it!

  6. 6.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 28, 2013 at 3:14 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Hey you! Haven’t seen your smiling face in a long time!

    Howya doin?

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 28, 2013 at 3:19 am

    @Yatsuno:

    They cannot stop thinking about it. They just can’t. It totally rules their world.

    They need to get lives. Seriously. I would suggest that as a first step they get into cosplay, SCA, Star Trek conventions, or something else less life consuming.

  8. 8.

    Liquid

    June 28, 2013 at 3:21 am

    I do believe that “On All Fores 4 America.” // “On All 4s For America.” would be a more in/appropriate ad.

  9. 9.

    elaine benis

    June 28, 2013 at 3:33 am

    @MikeJ:

    Ha. Love this comment:

    Give Rick Perry credit. He managed to call Davis a bastard without upsetting the church ladies.

  10. 10.

    max

    June 28, 2013 at 3:45 am

    these guys just can’t stop thinking about gay sexual innuendo

    ‘Those gay stick figures just can’t stop sucking my cock.’

    This has got to be recycled as the publicity campaign for some gay hookup app.

    max
    [‘Bottoms up.’]

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    June 28, 2013 at 3:46 am

    @Linda Featheringill:
    I’ve been right here all this while. I’m doing okay, Bianca too.

    Um, when did I show you my smiling face?

  12. 12.

    scav

    June 28, 2013 at 3:59 am

    call 2 fall has got to be really insider baseball to even be explicable. Once given a context, all I could come up with is falling into sin and the Fall of Man and that brings up eating of the apple (or better still, figs) and then I’m off. . .

  13. 13.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 28, 2013 at 4:02 am

    Where is Fundamentally Oral Bill? We could use him about now.

  14. 14.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 28, 2013 at 4:17 am

    A lot of the obvious jokes have already been covered on that LGM thread.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    June 28, 2013 at 4:19 am

    Well, blow me down.

    (Reference to the same oddity the post is about was made at the tail end of Chris Hayes’ show on Thursday.)

  16. 16.

    Joseph Nobles

    June 28, 2013 at 4:27 am

    Stop what you’re doing
    Get down upon your knees
    I’ve a message for you
    That you better believe believe believe

  17. 17.

    scav

    June 28, 2013 at 4:35 am

    So get down upon your knees,
    Fiddle with your rosaries,
    Bow your head with great respect,
    And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

    Make a cross on your abdomen,
    When in rome do like a roman,
    Ave maria,
    Gee it’s good to see ya,
    Gettin’ ecstatic an’
    Sorta dramatic an’
    Doin’ the vatican rag!

  18. 18.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 28, 2013 at 4:36 am

    So now you know who gets mystified
    Show me the power child
    I’d like to say
    That I’m down on my knees today
    It gives me the butterflies
    Gives me away
    Till I’m up on my feet again
    I’m feeling outshined.

  19. 19.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 28, 2013 at 4:37 am

    @scav: HAHA, Tom Lehrer, excellent!

  20. 20.

    Another Halocene Human

    June 28, 2013 at 4:37 am

    Looks like someone begging for mercy. I dunno, nevermind the buttsechs jokes, I find the image of a grown person on their knees abjectly supplicating the Sky God to be pretty disturbing all on its own.

    For one thing, howcum these people never catch on that God’s edicts line up so neatly with the pastor’s material and psychic interests?

    For another thing, why does God need a starship need you on your knees like a fucking fool?

  21. 21.

    Liquid

    June 28, 2013 at 4:37 am

    @NotMax: Bangarang Ruffio!

  22. 22.

    Another Halocene Human

    June 28, 2013 at 4:40 am

    Rushdoony and that little boy smile
    Rushdoony with that slow southern style
    A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees
    Rushdoony if you please.

    ?

    Too obscure?

  23. 23.

    SRW1

    June 28, 2013 at 5:18 am

    @Another Halocene Human:

    Blah Velvet.

  24. 24.

    raven

    June 28, 2013 at 5:18 am

    @NotMax: I just watched a video from the Die Hard where a woman is reeling in a nice Ahi and the lne goes slack. Tightens again and she lands it with a huge bit taken out of it!

  25. 25.

    Xenos

    June 28, 2013 at 5:53 am

    Someday I have to track down the old Desmond Morris interpretation of group worship and prayer. It is a bit essentialistic and tends to look to sociobiology where it can not apply, but the ethological approach to human can be instructive. (That was Aimai bait. The rest of you can ignore that.)

    His point, as well as I can remember it 30 years later, is that humans in worship act out primate subservience rituals, like so many female or adolescent male gorillas genuflecting to the biggest silverback around. Like a stressed out dog that roll on its back seeking approval, anxious humans need to act out their subservience to a big powerful daddy so that they can feel safe and secure.

    To extend this approach to our current patriarchal religions, these worshipers also need everybody else to play along. If some beta male is giggling in the bushes at the whole ritual display of subservience it is going to really piss off the humans who need, as a deep psychological level, for everybody else to experience the same delusions and play their parts in the same rituals. Thus conservative-authoritarians hate liberals much more than competing groups of conservative-authoritarians because liberals delegitmize the whole enterprise and break up the whole magic spell that they desperately need everyone to believe in order for it to work.

    Aimai would probably give me a C- for this half baked theory, but I think Morris was really on to something.

  26. 26.

    Cacti

    June 28, 2013 at 6:07 am

    Since it’s a new day…

    Has Ed Snowden shot himself in the balls yet?

  27. 27.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 28, 2013 at 6:11 am

    @Cacti: Putin ate them for breakfast.

  28. 28.

    Randy P

    June 28, 2013 at 6:17 am

    @Xenos: As far as the “subservience rituals” I don’t think there’s anything mysterious or earth-shattering there. It’s the same posture you take with royalty across many cultures.

    It does raise one interesting question in my mind though. Moslem prayer also uses a subservient position for prayer. But as far as I know (which isn’t far) Jewish prayer services do not. If so, where did it get introduced into Christianity?

    Perhaps with the earthly power the Pope used to have. Don’t know if you’re aware, but there are moments in some Catholic rituals where the priest is actually supposed to be lying face down on the ground. It’s called “prostration”.

    One thing about your theory intrigued me: the part about how if somebody doesn’t submit to our Alpha he is immediately identified as not in our tribe and we can all beat him up and steal his bananas. I think you have something there.

  29. 29.

    Xenos

    June 28, 2013 at 6:39 am

    @Randy P:

    It does raise one interesting question in my mind though. Moslem prayer also uses a subservient position for prayer. But as far as I know (which isn’t far) Jewish prayer services do not. If so, where did it get introduced into Christianity?

    It could be from existing Greek or Egyptian practices, or from one or more of the mystery cults that were popular at the time. Maybe a well-known esoteric practice that was now made public and exoteric. Everybody can be an insider now, come join the Xtians!!

  30. 30.

    WereBear

    June 28, 2013 at 6:57 am

    I know Amoebas get along just fine with zero self-awareness, but I didn’t know humans apparently had the same ability.

  31. 31.

    the last tradition

    June 28, 2013 at 7:00 am

    Response from The Last Tradition a conservative blog: I think the warped thinking is on your side of the aisle. I look at that Logo and see a man on his knees in prayer. To see otherwise demonstrates the kind of value system the observer truly has.

    http://thelasttradition.blogspot.com/2013/06/vile-lefty-blogger-mocks-frcs-call-2.html

  32. 32.

    John S.

    June 28, 2013 at 7:05 am

    @Randy P:

    Jews may not kneel for prayer, but there are other ways to show subservience before G-d.

    We cover out heads (typically with a yarmulke) as a sign of respect. We wear a prayer shawl (tallit) and phylactaries (tefillin) tied to our heads and wrapped around our arms for many types of services. You are expected to have tzeniut (modesty) in your clothing to pray.

    I’d say kneeling is getting off light.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    June 28, 2013 at 7:06 am

    @Xenos:

    Very perceptive comment.

    some beta male is giggling in the bushes at the whole ritual display

    Sounds like your intertubes.

  34. 34.

    Applejinx

    June 28, 2013 at 7:15 am

    I think there’s also an element of human weakness involved: when we’re taught to do a thing very young, like kneel to pray, it becomes hard-wired and to depart from that model always involves a feeling of dislocation, a wrongness that’s pretty arbitrary.

    I pray (not specifically religious) and I kneel—actually kinda kowtow, to be honest—with an understanding that it is about MY limited ability to contextualize such things. I don’t think God gives a rat’s ass, but I do think that whatever God is, it matters that I’m engaged with the praying, rather than separating myself from it and intellectualizing it. There’s a type of submission to whatever that greater power is, which demands that I do whatever the fuck it is I feel necessary in order to get with the ‘there’s God, and I’m not it’ program.

    I think a lot of these right wing holy rollers are looking to BE God by their worship. By their rituals they figure they become the same thing as God, and can go out and smite. I don’t like it. I sure don’t get such instructions.

  35. 35.

    Botsplainer, fka Todd

    June 28, 2013 at 7:15 am

    So the fake valor dude who got eviscerated by Tammy Duckworth (with a creditable assist from Issa) hasn’t adjusted his company web page or taken down his twitter.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/braulimcastillo/tweets

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 28, 2013 at 7:17 am

    @scav: It was a pomegranate – not an apple or a fig. Jeez.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    June 28, 2013 at 7:26 am

    Cum all ye faithful…

  38. 38.

    debbie

    June 28, 2013 at 7:27 am

    Pity that conservatives’ understanding of marketing, taglines, and graphic design is as superficial as their alleged mastery of social media. What pathetic jokes they are.

  39. 39.

    maurinsky

    June 28, 2013 at 7:29 am

    Better pray for your sins
    Cause the gay messiah’s coming.

    No, it will not be me
    Rufus the Baptist I’ll be
    No I won’t be the one
    baptized in cum.

    What will happen instead,
    someone will demand my head.
    And then I will kneel down
    and give it to them, going down.

  40. 40.

    Randy P

    June 28, 2013 at 7:50 am

    @John S.: So like I say, it makes me curious how it got into Christianity, since Christianity was at its origins a Jewish cult.

    I suspect as I said it had something to do with the Pope consolidating power. I grew up Catholic and there are a whole lot of subservience rituals to priests, bishops and popes too. Actually that’s where the split started for me. I had it drilled into me that when you meet a bishop, you kneel and kiss his ring. And then, at my Confirmation ritual no less, the bishop stopped to speak with me and waited expectantly for me to do my thing.

    I couldn’t make myself do it.

  41. 41.

    Cassidy

    June 28, 2013 at 8:16 am

    It’s just a fictional character, people. No one is kneeling before Zod. Great character, great movies and great story archs in the comics, but still fictional. I am excited to see how Michael Shannon’s portrayl stacks up against terrence Stamp’s. Those are some huge shoes to fill.

  42. 42.

    beltane

    June 28, 2013 at 8:21 am

    @Randy P: Yes, kneeling was derived from the protestations made before the emperor.

  43. 43.

    Matt McIrvin

    June 28, 2013 at 8:33 am

    You got both hands. You got both hands.
    You got praying hands. You got praying hands.
    They pray for no man. They pray for no man.

    Okay, relax, and assume the position!
    Go into doggie submission!

    Wash your hands three times a day
    Always do what your mom and dad say
    Brush your teeth in the following way
    Wash your hands three times a day

  44. 44.

    soonergrunt (mobile)

    June 28, 2013 at 8:35 am

    @Botsplainer, fka Todd: wow, that guy is VERY Catholic. Tweets are all religious and about the church. I’ll bet he’s an Opus Dei follower. They have that element of superficial extreme piety covering criminality that has to be seen to be believed.

  45. 45.

    Emma

    June 28, 2013 at 8:37 am

    So I had to get out of bed and go to work even though I feel like shit and this is the first thing I see. And I can’t stop laughing. Thank you FSM!

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 28, 2013 at 8:48 am

    @soonergrunt (mobile): Hmmm, you got all that from it? I stopped at “Wow, dude’s a loony.”

  47. 47.

    different-church-lady

    June 28, 2013 at 8:53 am

    I don’t see what’s so gay about vomiting on the ground.

  48. 48.

    Fred

    June 28, 2013 at 8:53 am

    @Randy P: Judaism predates both the Christian and the Mohammedan sects. Both of the later developed in Roman occupied territory I believe.

  49. 49.

    NickT

    June 28, 2013 at 9:04 am

    I think it’s cruel of them to mock Tebowing this way.

  50. 50.

    NickT

    June 28, 2013 at 9:06 am

    @Fred:

    Islam developed in the Arabian peninsula in territory outside the Late Roman/Byzantine empire.

  51. 51.

    Maude

    June 28, 2013 at 9:09 am

    @Emma:
    Get through the day and feel better.

  52. 52.

    Citizen_X

    June 28, 2013 at 9:28 am

    @the last tradition: “You didn’t get my logo because you’re a disgusting pervert!” Marketing: Ur doin it rong.

  53. 53.

    MomSense

    June 28, 2013 at 10:08 am

    Please let this be peak wingnut. I don’t know how much more I can take.

  54. 54.

    Amir Khalid

    June 28, 2013 at 10:13 am

    @Fred:
    Muslims consider referring to Islam as the “Mohammedan” faith inaccurate and even offensive.

  55. 55.

    Origuy

    June 28, 2013 at 10:45 am

    @beltane: The Roman emperor was pontifex maxiumus, the high priest of the official cult. When Constantine I became a Christian, he didn’t give that up. Later it got transferred to the Pope, along with the rituals.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    June 28, 2013 at 11:06 am

    @raven

    Almost worth stuffing and mounting to have around as a conversation piece.

  57. 57.

    smedley the uncertain

    June 28, 2013 at 11:09 am

    @beltane: Who was Constantine as the first royal head of the church; 300 a.d. +/-. Obeisance or supplication was the order of the day for toward Emperors, and since he elevated Xtianity as the only religion in the empire, he got all the obeisance he could use. His annointed Bishops asumed to themselves similar rites as part recognition of their exalted position.

  58. 58.

    Cathie from Canada

    June 28, 2013 at 11:31 am

    My husband commented “At least they didn’t pick the slogan ‘Blow me down'”

  59. 59.

    jc

    June 28, 2013 at 1:23 pm

    How many times have we heard Limbaugh conservatives wail about having the liberal agenda shoved down their throats. Those liberals are trying to make the poor regressives bend over and live in the modern world. You’ll have to pry their bigotry out of their cold, dead minds.

  60. 60.

    cokane

    June 28, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    why is getting on your knees gay innuendo? straight ppl can have blowjobs or anal sex too!

  61. 61.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    June 28, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    @Yatsuno:

    These guys obsess over teh ghey buttsecks more than I do.

    Please. Have some respect,

    This is not teh ghey buttsecks, This is teh ghey slurpsecks.

  62. 62.

    vitaminC

    June 28, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    Mine:

  63. 63.

    Fort Geek

    June 28, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @the last tradition: Could be you just have no sense of humor. HTH, HAND.

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