Before we speak any further, watch this video - it will (probably) make your afternoon. (And if my saying so doesn't convince you, it features crowd-pleasers Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney and John C. Reilly.)
Now, I have no idea if this video was made in any kind of cooperation with Join The Impact (which doesn't mention it on their front page, though there is a link to a previous Funny Or Die collaboration), or if JTI just seemed to the creators of the video like the most obvious place to link. Either way, it's really interesting how some of the most innovative pro-LGBT-rights activism of the past year, and creative expression of that message, has come out in the aftermath of Prop 8's passage - whether it be the 50-state-strategy-reminiscent organizing of JTI (as we wrote about a few weeks back), or the conversations that are being begun and rejuvenated with the release of Milk.
Several of the post-mortems of the failed No on 8 campaign have mentioned that, along with a lack of a ground game, the public face of the campaign was a bland one, scared into vagueness on who was being discriminated against, unable to hold a candle next to the sickeningly memorable (and sickeningly misleading) ads cut by Yes on 8 forces. While viral videos like this can't help but turn our minds towards what could have been, knowing that efforts like this to shift the debate are more likely, not less likely, with the passage of Prop 8 and the failure of scared-of-our-shadow LGBT-rights activism might make us a little more hopeful for what could be in the future.
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