Colorado Springs "Born Different" campaign has FOF in a tizzy

[kevinbgoode]

The "Meet Norman" commercials feature a puppy who moos. . .and that has sent the James Dobson crowd into a head explosion. Apparently these ads, which are running in Colorado Springs television and theaters, are quite popular with the community - except the Focus on the "Family" crowd, who naturally thinks the puppy deserves exclusion.

These commercials are short and rather clever - you can see some of them at:

http://www.borndifferent.org/norman-on-tv.html

What a wonderfully creative idea!!

They have a really clever cover page on their web site as well:

http://www.borndifferent.org/

[phylny]

1. All right, well Norman is just adorable and

the spots are, well, spot on :)

[DanCa]

2. hmm puppets vs fundies

There's a joke in here somewhere but I am too tired to make it.

[readmoreoften]

3. What a great rebuttal to the fundie ads

"Men don't marry men and dogs don't moo." (paraphrase)

Every little girl in America will wish she had a Norman. Haha. Take THAT cult of suffering!

[kevinbgoode]

5. Frankly, I think they should use a commercial

featuring James Dobson's methods of "training" a puppy...and a child. . .by corporal punishment.

[MuseRider]

4. I had heard about these but not seen them yet.

Thank you, it starts my day off with a smile. What a great idea and such a cute puppy. :)

[blogslut]

6. Gosh

I hope old man Dobson busts a gut. His face gets all pinched and red when he's mad. It's hilarious! :evilgrin:

[bmbmd]

7. Outstanding.

Should be required viewing.

[kevinbgoode]

8. I'm kicking this back up just cuz it's cute and good news. . .

and we sure don't get much of that from this administration. . .and their fundy puppeteers.

[Fleshdancer]

9. OMG! I LOVE these ads

so creative, so true and so freakin' adorable :)

[SmokingJacket]

10. Interesting that there's only a 50% chance for both twins to be gay.

I know a set of identical twins, one gay and one not. Which means gayness is only partly genetic -- there is still some other factor. My guess is that it's something to do with womb enviroment or perhaps a random variable.

Since it's fifty-fifty for the twin of a gay person to be gay, perhaps once the genetic requirements are set, there's some on/off switch that has to do with birth conditions or something.

Not that it really matters, but the science of gender and sexual orientation is still such a mystery for the most part.

[karlrschneider]

13. If you can, watch the 60 minutes clip from the OP's link

:-)

[mparkerp]

11. Great Organization

FYI - These ads were produced by an awesome non-profit
advertising company called Public Interest.  They have also
done great work on AIDS prevention, Education, Equality, etc
etc.  check them out at [www.publicinterest.tv]

[karlrschneider]

12. Hey, thanks for the info and Welcome to DU!

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