This Is Your Kid On Gay Marriage
The way I've always understood our legislative process is that after a bill is drafted, it's eventually sent to the House for a vote. If it passes there, it's sent on to the Senate. And if it passes the Senate it's sent on to the Kids Kommittee, where a bunch of children of all ages are given the opportunity to read the bill and see if they can make sense of it, usually through liberal use of glitter pens, wacky hole punchers, stickers, and watching Go Diego Go! all afternoon. If the kids approve the bill, they'll send it on to the governor who could then sign it into law—but this never happens, since no bill makes it out of Kids Kommittee. Why? Kids are awful legislators, mostly because, you know, they're kids.
Like the proposed Gay Marriage bill in New Hampshire. According to this ad, they have no idea what's going on with that:
Won't someone stop thinking of the children!?
This ad was made by the same people who did that whole "Homosexual Typhoon" thing that you probably saw 8 parodies of. Isn't it nice to see them broadening their nonsensical tactics? Before, they said that gay marriage would cause bad weather metaphors. Now they're saying that we can't have gay marriage because it would confuse the kids. But you know what else confuses kids? Everything: Time zones. Books without pictures. Cargo pants. Certain hair colors. Jello molds. The magic trick with the quarter behind the ear. Mirrors. Mentadent toothpaste dispensers. Everything confuses kids, because they're kids. So "Will it confuse kids?" is probably not the best litmus test for, well, anything besides toys and Spongebob plotlines (and even then, there's a lot of leeway).