Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore
For those of you who haven’t bothered to thumb through the Oregon Ballot Measures Voters’ Pamphlet, allow me to direct your attention to one of the funniest and most expensive practical jokes in recent memory.
One “M. Dennis Moore” apparently shelled out $1,500 to reserve the first three slots for arguments in favor of Measure 36, the proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Oregon, for no other reason than to mercilessly parody every bible-thumping ad that would follow. An excerpt:
Where will it all end? After 6,000-some years of frightening attacks on old traditional values, will history never cease to unfold? Will God never stop throwing all of these radical social changes at us?
My friends, there is a simple answer. All you have to do is
VOTE TO TURN THE CLOCK BACK!
It’s really that simple!
Now, which one of these radical social changes will this measure turn the clock back to? Oh, come on, let’s just
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER!
See all three ads, in full, right up top here. Then, hell, scroll and compare. And, as you read the real religious arguments in favor of Measure 36, ask yourself: Do they have anything to do with government? Should government have anything to do with what marriage is or should be?
