Comments on: Marriage ad from WV http://www.thoughtcounts.net/2009/03/marriage-ad-from-wv/ critical analysis and interesting ideas Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8012309f11f006133ca00497f97781f6&size=48&default=http://www.thoughtcounts.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/e8fae4c404d5cac.png" alt="Leonard Drake Identicon Icon" height="48" width="48" /> Leonard Drake http://www.thoughtcounts.net/2009/03/marriage-ad-from-wv/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 Leonard Drake Identicon Icon Leonard Drake Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:09:27 +0000 http://www.thoughtcounts.net/?p=436#comment-3453 Allow me to assist with yet another objectional aspect of this video: BLATANT AND OBJECTIONABLE RACISM. Most, if not all, of the families were Caucasian. In the school setting, there were two children who were not White, but they were practically invisible, as they were positioned in the EXTREME REAR of the photoshoot. One child in this classroom was siting diagonally and his face was partially blocked by the two blond WASP-ish, smiling children. (As an aside, is this advertisement designed for church members alone, or is this to be broadcast to ALL West Virginians? If it is the latter, remind me to put on my "butch cap" if I should travel through "thems woods.") Clearly, the designers of this commercial had other not-so-subtle ideas: "God's Design" is not limited to just heterosexual individuals. No, they must be WHITE, heterosexual individuals, of Anglo-Saxon or other European heritage, reside in a stable, conservative, middle-class (minimum) two-parent, two-child (minimum) Judaeo-Christian family unit. Individuals who prescribe to other religious values, who are of other racial, ethnic, socioeconomic or sociocultural backgrounds are unfortunately -- according to this advertisement -- unwelcome according to "God's Design." Does one detect just a SLIGHT HINT of prejudice? As for the errors in case law within the commercial, I won't even go there... Allow me to assist with yet another objectional aspect of this video: BLATANT AND OBJECTIONABLE RACISM. Most, if not all, of the families were Caucasian. In the school setting, there were two children who were not White, but they were practically invisible, as they were positioned in the EXTREME REAR of the photoshoot. One child in this classroom was siting diagonally and his face was partially blocked by the two blond WASP-ish, smiling children.

(As an aside, is this advertisement designed for church members alone, or is this to be broadcast to ALL West Virginians? If it is the latter, remind me to put on my “butch cap” if I should travel through “thems woods.”)

Clearly, the designers of this commercial had other not-so-subtle ideas: “God’s Design” is not limited to just heterosexual individuals. No, they must be WHITE, heterosexual individuals, of Anglo-Saxon or other European heritage, reside in a stable, conservative, middle-class (minimum) two-parent, two-child (minimum) Judaeo-Christian family unit. Individuals who prescribe to other religious values, who are of other racial, ethnic, socioeconomic or sociocultural backgrounds are unfortunately — according to this advertisement — unwelcome according to “God’s Design.” Does one detect just a SLIGHT HINT of prejudice?

As for the errors in case law within the commercial, I won’t even go there…

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