Welcome to the Anti-Gay Auditions!
Here’s the National Organization for Marriage’s new anti-same-sex-marriage scare ad:
The Human Rights Campaign has released a report detailing the ad’s inaccuracies, which is great. But the HRC has outdone itself this time by tracking down the audition reels of actors stumbling over ridiculous NOM lines like “the clouds are dark and the winds are strong, and I’m afraid.” The auditions are after the jump.
Insider tip: The actress in “Audition 3″ is unbelievable.
Auditions For Marriage Lie Ad, Part 1 from Joe Smoe on Vimeo.
Auditions For Marriage Lie Ad, Part 2 from Joe Smoe on Vimeo.
UPDATE: The original auditions have been pulled off Youtube. Vimeo picked them up, allowing us all to continue to laugh at unsuspecting actors duped into stumbling over ridiculous anti-gay rhetoric. Thanks, Vimeo!
UPDATE 2: Vimeo’s pulled them, too. Citizen bloggers are downloading their own copies at keepvid.com and reposting them on youtube until they, too, are pulled. I’ll try my best to keep this site updated with watchable videos.
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1:40 pm
Play both audition videos at the same time for A Clockwork Orange effect.
2:45 pm
So much awkward homophobia!
4:26 pm
Number 3 reminded me of this clip from Slacker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNdYoy1AUM
4:39 pm
the young lady in audition 16 is receiving oral pleasure in the first half of her audition…
6:38 pm
wow the actor in audition 4, what’s up with the ears
8:29 am
More like the National Orgaization of Morons.
How in the world did they get all these CA doctors? lol
9:55 am
I hate adverts, especially political adverts. Who are the morons who actually pay attention to this crap when it comes on the TV and radio?
10:22 am
LOL … audition 15 the girl says “Rainbow Collision” … so appropriate, eh?
10:24 am
Cumming together in love is the hottest thing about gay marriage.
10:25 am
Shouldn’t that be ” a rainbow coalition…IS coming together”?
10:26 am
Remix remix remix!!!
10:37 am
Unfortunately there are a lot of “gullible” TV watchers that will believe this total crap. These type of TV ads SUCCEEDED IN CALIFORNIA !! More rebuttal is needed to expose the lies.
10:39 am
I wish I had known about these auditions.
11:03 am
They sould spend more time scratching thir asses…….they would get more out of it.
11:05 am
They should spend more time scratching their asses……… correction.
11:11 am
The young black man in Audition 14 completely gives it away: these are all young starving actors who would do anything for money and couldn’t care less about what they’re saying to do it. The black man is the only one who recognizes how wrong and stupid the words are he’s being asked to say.
Too bad when children see these advertisements they don’t know they are listening to young, fresh actors recite lines given them by pathetic, mangy old white men.
11:14 am
I really wish the they could match nouns with verbs–” A rainbow coalition IS (not “are”) coming together”. The whole concept is wrong and the grammar is wrong too. Hurts my heart and my ears.
11:16 am
Hmm, let’s see. Actors are in “the arts”. There are a fair number of gay people in “the arts”. Ya think their is a pretty good possibility that one or more of the people auditioning was gay or knows someone gay? No wonder these auditions are so awful! You’d have to be fucking Olivier to pull this off!
11:35 am
The doctor has to “choose between her faith and her job”… why?
History is already laughing at these people.
11:38 am
this is such a perfect issue for the republican/conservatives.
a chance to come out in favor of less government, reduce government interferance in our lives, greater individual freedom
what do they do come out in favor of big government, more government interferacne in our lives, less individual freedom
11:41 am
Try watching the auditions with the background music of the price is right. It’s perfect!!!
11:52 am
“A Rainbow Coalition” is gathering to fight gay marriage…rainbows? Really? REALLY?
11:55 am
The actor from Audition #4 can simply stop the oncoming “storm” by blocking it with his gigantic ears. *Whew!* Crisis averted! Now straight people can keep getting married!
12:21 pm
A storm is coming…a storm of normality.
We are putting together a coalition of bland paranoia…please wont you help.
12:23 pm
It’s all BS to me…the ads, that is. Equality before the law isn’t.Anybody with a semblance of intelligence will realize that to deny gays the right to marriage is a violation of our Constitution.
12:25 pm
Audition #3 is Michelle Bachman, no?
12:37 pm
Um…I find it funny they’re ANTI GAY, but the first video calls them a “Rainbow Coalition”.
GOOD JOB HOMOPHOBES!!!!!
12:38 pm
Anything with green screen is just asking for a remix. Oh, I can’t wait to see what people come up with.
12:38 pm
thanks for making me laugh! now i can go back to hating myself for being a lesbian while plotting the next step of our gay agenda!
12:42 pm
OMG! The gay guy who was Audition #10 got the job.
Yay, hairdressers! Hollywood wouldn’t be the same without you.
12:47 pm
Yes, one of those remix “mashups” of the video would be a hoot.
12:55 pm
To be fair to the actors they are probably just trying to get a job… Just because they are auditioning for the role doesn’t mean they believe what they are saying, actors have to work even if they don’t believe in what they are doing.
1:02 pm
“Some who advocate for same sex marriage have taken the issue far beyond same sex couples.” Hmmmmm… I don’t really get that. What’s far beyond same sex couples? Well as usual politicos need to stir things up. This is far less about same sex issues than it is about rallying the troops in hate to gain power.
1:25 pm
Everyone rip a copy of this before the HRC calls YouTube to take it down. Then repost, repost, repost all over the internet!
1:28 pm
It’s not a STORM, it’s a friggin’ TWISTER … dorothy. We’re not in Kansas anymore… We’re in Iowa, and most recently Vermont… tick tock tick tock tick tock.
Churches – keep your damn Holy Matrimony … we don’t care. Marriage houwever is a CIVIL RIGHT and you don’t own it !
1:35 pm
working from the third grade premise,”it takes one to know one”, i saw a lot of fags or at least repressed fags doing these auditions. couldn’t watch all of them,had to go vomit.
1:41 pm
I’m not gay but totally confortable with gay marriage. I have friends who went to Canada to get married some years ago and again in California. I don’t get the criticism of actress 3. As a professionsal performer I thought she was one of the very best, honest and straightforward. Why do people make fun of other people trying to do their best, whatever their beliefs. It seems like another form of ridiculing someone else, not what we should hear form people espousing freedom for everybody.
2:16 pm
HA HA! There are CLEARLY homos in these “ads”. WTF?!
2:26 pm
Heh.
Heh heh.
She said coming.
Heh heh.
I am the great Bungholio. You must bring me TP.
Bung holio.
3:29 pm
lord have mnercy! i havent laughed this hard since i listened to rush limbaugh this morning. these “actors” should be blacklisted from hollywood. oh, wait they have no talent so that’s not really necessary.
3:41 pm
Why aren’t WE putting together REAL, FACTUAL ads that demonstrate how LGBTQI people are NOT-HIRED, FIRED, DENIED MEDICAL TREATMENT, PUBLICLY and PRIVATELY HUMILIATED, BEATEN, RAPED and MURDERED due to homophobia, especially in times like these where emotions run high over legislation to protect us!!! We have REAL stories…that affect are very right to live! Let’s not simply rebut their lies but let’s show them (and the rest of the world) the truth about our suffering under their hatred.
4:17 pm
The sad part is, the grey gentleman with the beard is a high school drama teacher with openly gay students, and the short-haired woman is his wife, who’s also a teacher.
4:21 pm
I love how they say there is a “rainbow coalition” (lol, the irony!) of people from every creed and colour; yet most of the people auditioning, and almost all of those in the actual ad, are white, while they’ve thrown in a few tokens from other races to make sure they don’t look even more prejudiced and hateful than they already do.
4:24 pm
Dr. Jams,
No one will care that we are suffering under their hatred. Hatred does not care! Hatred likes it when the object of its hate suffers. In this case, such hatred is often fueled by a belief that God shares that hatred, thereby making it righteous and holy, a holy cultural war!
So, to such people, the fact that we suffer is a sign they are doing the right thing, and that God is wrathfully judging and cursing us! The more we admit to suffering, the more these people dance a little jig and drink a toast to the Big Old Testament Patriarch in the Sky.
Trying to win sympathy is meaningless. In the USA such people are called whiners. We must instead refute the lies from a place of strength, not submission.
5:06 pm
I think it’s very important to counter this ad with the fact that same-sex marriage has already been legal, especially in other countries, for many years. None of these places have suffered any damage to their social order or family life because of it. In fact, it may spur straight couples to take the commitments they made in their own marriages more seriously when they see what a precious right it is for all people.
6:43 pm
#22 needs Hooked on Phonics or Sylvan.
6:53 pm
There is nothing like homophobia and bigotry to bring together the religious fanatics for a hate fest of biblical proportions.
It is the one thing these people do well and often: THEY HATE.
8:18 pm
Gosh, do you suppose the audience targeted is, shall we say, not too bright?
9:48 pm
I’d like to see them, but it appears NOM had them pulled on copyright. These people can never stand the light of day. They run back under the baseboards.
11:05 pm
Offended:
althought youtube removed the videos from it’s website, I know who you’re talking about. The gray-haired man is a teacher at my school! He’s actually LDS, and therefore most likely against SSM. Two funny things though: he’s an advocate at our school for keeping political views of teachers private (LOL) and I’m also pretty sure his son is gay.
11:42 pm
NOM has had the audition videos pulled from youtube. Here is another link to them. Lets hope Vimeo has more balls than youtube:
http://vimeo.com/4060459
4:20 am
Audition #10 is a starving homo.
5:07 am
Good work tracking the videos to Vimeo!
Check out “their website” (obviously not written by NOM).
http://www.2m4m.org
8:08 am
after seeing this, i am very afraid of this gdamn storm too.
10:05 am
What sickens me is that actors took the money to appear in this advert. It would be bad enough if the ignorant and hateful words were being spouted by people as their own belief, but to recite these words for a paycheck is far worse.
12:46 pm
So, Since we can no longer view the second video here, where can we view it?
12:53 pm
ok so I already tried the Vimeo thing, says they were deleted as of 10:23 this morning. So they pull them off youtube to put on their own site and then delete them?
I dunno, i just wanna watch the friggin audtitions.
1:19 pm
Auditions of filthy liars!
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZa1yjioU14&feature=channel_page
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuJY4Wrv7o&feature=channel_page
1:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZa1yjioU14&feature=channel_page
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuJY4Wrv7o&feature=channel_page
Still have them… for a few hours at least.
3:38 pm
Who are these people?
I want to find out who these ‘actors’ are…some are clearly gay themselves.
I would love to interview them and find out more…
Anyone know any of these sheep?
3:45 pm
hahaha
“A Rainbow CoalATION ARE….”
Their bad grammar and stupidity rivals their ‘message’.
A storm is certainly brewing, one of hate, ignorance and bad grammar.
Call them.
Let them know what you think:
(609) 688-0450
3:48 pm
I actually feel for these people. They probably had no idea what sort of commercial they were walking into when they took the audition. The ad even masquerades as a pro-gay message at point: “rainbow coalition,” please.
4:07 pm
Amanda-
Actors don’t read copy for the first time on camera. They are given it before hand to read through before they are ever in front of the camera.
I wouldn’t feel too much for these people. They knew exactly what they were doing.
4:16 pm
Good point. Don’t worry, I don’t have too much “feeling” capacity in me.
7:00 pm
I’d like to remind you all that religion does not equal homophobia. If you’d like to watch a more positive video from a religious group on this subject, here’s one from the Unitarian Universalist Association “People of Faith, Standing on the Side of Love” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8omkCTvQA
9:53 pm
I tracked down the live videos, uploaded them myself to a few sites and also included my source link (daily motion). This should keep the take down notices busy for awhile for all of those who haven’t seen it yet!
PART ONE.
1. http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=fz12mr&s=5
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9QWx8WYrbc&feature=channel_page
3. http://tinyurl.com/dailymotionNOM1
4. http://www.viddler.com/explore/rryanweath/videos/2/
part two
5. http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=23kxdgz&s=5
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WHkiBetzh8&feature=channel_page
7. http://tinyurl.com/dailymotionNOM2
8. http://www.viddler.com/explore/rryanweath/videos/1/
3:45 am
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/funny-anti-gay.html
Has working videos currently.
3:51 am
It is not been pulled yet.
3:52 am
Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9QWx8WYrbc
1:43 pm
http://www.vimeo.com/4093265
3:26 pm
Hey, I don’t know how to strip videos to receive a copy and upload it later, but someone should try uploading it to youku.com
6:33 pm
This ad is truly repulsive. Reprehensible. Revolting. Hell, it’s ALL those “r” words! And I HATE IT that people who think like that try to validate their bigotry and lend credibility to their hatred by PRETENDING it has anything to do with religion. It doesn’t. It has to do entirely with their own insecurities, phobias, ignorance, willful blindness, and lack of simply human decency. At least they’re being laughed to shame. Or would be if they HAD and shame…
1:53 pm
Here is my original parody of the NOM ad. Gathering Twister:
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/gathering-twister.html
3:51 am
It is terrible to se how some people don´t respect other humans and their sexuality. Im glad to be a Norwegian were we have few of this crazy christians.
2:16 am
FSM bless The Pirate Bay and the nameless uploader!
Link to torrent page of NOM audition videos.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4842865/National_Organization_for_Marriage_-_Audition_Videos
Tinyurl in case the first URL gets munged.
http://tinyurl.com/d9ssla
6:00 pm
Okay, is it just me or did audition 10 seem totally gay?
7:08 pm
These are NOT actors but people known to each other in the LDS (Mormon) community in Mesa & Gilbert, AZ. I know most of them as I gew up Mormon, too. I don’t participate in things with them now because the pressure of being gay and LDS took me down a path of suicidal attempts. The people behind this are even more ridiculous. I have spoken with them and no one is willing to try and understand. Anything we say will not change their views. I can name most of the actors as personal friends. Ugh. It makes me ill. Ironically, fearmongering and lying are against the Christian values they are trying to defend.
What I really want to know is why they don’t spend the production money on really helping marriage? Are you kidding me $1.5 M for that amateur production? Send couples to counseling. Help children and wives who are in abusive homes. Make it harder to get a divorce and remarried. Strengthen families rather than teaching that it’s okay for families to disown their gay children and drive them to the brink of suicide. Stop being “anti-something” just because it’s easier than actually being FOR something.
7:15 pm
Audition 10 is a drama teacher in Gilbert, AZ. I thought the same thing when I worked with him. He is married to the woman in audition 9. But I still think he is gay and closeted. Those who fight the hardest are usually the closest to the issue.
7:23 pm
Audition 5 is Carol Soelberg, former President of United Families International. You can write your feelings about this ad (or even call her): http://unitedfamilies.org/form.asp?i=10
Audition 6 is her husband Glade Soelberg, of Mesa, AZ.
11:01 pm
The guy doing Audition 12 looks like he’s high.
2:29 pm
I always tell people about the middle-aged gay couple who’d been together for 20 years who tried to convince a longtime girlfriend and I to get married, under god no less. They even offered to hire a minister and host the event on their country estate.
So I’m trying to understand how homosexuals are threatening traditional marriage. I’m also trying to understand why African Americans so adamantly oppose the rights of gays to marry. Is it because they hate marriage in general? Seventy percent of black children don’t have married parents.