‘Fog as Thick as Our Ignorance’: Funny or Die Targets Tennessee in Hysterical Anti-Gay Tourism Ad

Funny or Die’s Latest Anti-Gay Tourism Ad Hits Hard – Hysterically

The folks at Funny or Die have been doing their part to highlight anti-LGBT and religious extremism in the South recently, creating satirical tourism ads for North Carolina and Mississippi. Their latest hits Tennessee for its controversial, first-of-its-kind-in-the-nation bill that would actually allow therapists and counselors to tell an LGBTQ child, “No, I can’t work with you because my ‘sincerely held principles’ prohibit me from helping you.” 

The “ad” mocks Tennessee, noting that HB 1840 “is sitting on Gov. Haslam’s desk, but if he signs it, soon you could cross the bridge to unenlightenment, ride a horse without worrying a gay guy is looking at your butt, tiptoe across humanity to relive a time when people were unequal, sing a sad country song about your gay friends being refused counseling services, enjoy live music, if we can convince anyone to perform here, gaze at the beautiful rolling hills where the fog is as thick as our ignorance, laugh at an effeminate child!, dive headfirst into discrimination, let the fireflies illuminate your extremism while your children begin to think of you as an old dead fossil, stare at the circus that has become our government.”

“The slowing of progress is made in Tennessee,” it concludes.

Sad but true.

Watch above.

Want to know more about the anti-LGBT attacks by state lawmakers in the South? Take your pick: North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas.

 

Image: Screenshot via Funny or Die
Hat tip: Towleroad