Joining The Impact - Musically Speaking

by: Living Liberally

Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 14:02

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.)

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.