The Gaythering Storm

It's raining gays... hallelujah?

The Funny or Die folks are making fun of Christian social conservatives again, uh oh! Don't you think it's just too easy sometimes? Take: Teabagging.

This is the same site that brought Prop 8 the Musical to the pop culture table, and now they've brought us this gem. This time, FOD sends up the National Organization for Marriage A Storm Is Gathering advert. With more queer cast members than you can shake a bundle of sticks at – oh, and Alicia Silverstone – this is one viral video we're glad to pass on. Oh, and it seems that FOD didn't buy the URL mentioned at the end of the video www.giantgayrepellentumbrella.com. Someone else did.

And then there's Lizz Winstead's A Shitstorm of Intolerance:

And of course, this, from Colbert Nation:

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