This whole ad is an exercise in hypocrisy and circular logic, but this excerpt is the best example:

“Right now all around the world people of faith are being told to sit in the back of the bus. From kindergarten to the 12th grade, schools across America are being encouraged, in some cases coerced, to reserve a day in April to bring attention to anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender name-calling, bullying, and harassment.”

And later:

“In nearly every study, it is the homosexual who is most likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, to accept abusive relationships, to acquire and spread sexually transmitted disease, to suffer in depression and doubt, even to view suicide as a solution.”

So, what you’re saying Illinois Family Institute is that it’s discriminatory to ask straight Christian students to sit through a day in school set aside to bring about awareness for bullying and discrimination against GLBT students, and that part of reason we shouldn’t tolerate this awareness is that gay people are more likely to suffer depression and substance abuse? Um. Do you think maybe the reason gay people are more likely to abuse substances or commit suicide is because they’ve lived a life of bullying, name-calling, discrimination, and oppression from the straight Christian majority? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here.

Also, please don’t get me started on this whole, “white Christian oppression” thing. Really, Christians? You think you’re being oppressed? Why don’t you go read up on the Holocaust and segregation, then we’ll have a fucking chat about oppression.

(via andrewsullivan)