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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal One-Ups Anti-Equality Site

The National Organization for (Straight) Marriage, aka NOM, thought it might be cute to use February 3rd’s edition of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal to illustrate their perspective on heterosexual-only marriage, specifically, the point that only straights can marry because only they can procreate. The old-fashioned way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, NOM. Unfortunately, what they did was hotlink the webcomic, meaning that the image came directly from SMBC creator Zach Weiner‘s server, using his bandwidth and not NOM’s. This is a big no-no in the blogosphere. It’s considered rude, as opposed to saving the image to one’s own server. And that’s not the only problem.

Not only was NOM flat-out rude about using an SMBC comic to push its own point of view, it didn’t bother to ask SMBC if it shared their point of view. If you’re guessing that they don’t, you are correct. So, Weiner took action:

I messaged my brother/webguru Marty Weiner, who sprung into action. He worked on figuring out how to change the image without affecting the SMBC main page while I worked on finding an image. My initial idea was to post some dirty pictures, but I figured I could get more traction if I went the classy route.

And this is the image he chose, as it was seen on NOM’s site:

Predictably, NOM doesn’t want to remind its readers of this quote, so they’ve since taken it down and replaced it with the webcomic, but not before SMBC got screen caps while the image was up. But after “wanging” the site. (Or causing the NOM site to crash upon receiving a huge amount of traffic.) And that’s pretty sweet.

Let this be a lesson to any political-leaning sites out there: Don’t hotlink. People will find out about it, and they will not like you more for it.

(The Weinerworks via MetaFilter, title pic via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/108037014675127192334 Binary

    That’s friggin’ awesome. Best way of dealing with hotlinking I’ve encountered – subversion!

  • http://twitter.com/omicron123 Christopher M

    All men are created equal. Yep. Equally able to procreate with women, aside from illness-related concerns.

    What some seem not to have realized is that unnatural actions are not part of one’s humanity. This is roughly analogous to marrying a dog – you can’t have kids, but hey, at least you can “express your commitment” to your fine furry friend, eh? ‘Cept that’s not what marriage is. Marriage has been since its inception a two-pronged institution: One for expressing the love one person has for another, and the other for giving the progeny of that union a stable, loving environment to grow up in so that they can have the best possible start in life. It is this latter which fuels marriage-related tax breaks etc. – and it is this later which non-heterosexual unions by nature lack. And if adoption is brought into the equation, perhaps the correct solution is to make adoption grounds for similar monetary support to that which childbearing currently receives.

    So, by all means, go do your thing. I don’t care. Just don’t ask for money for raising your imaginary kids, don’t demand a pedestal alongside race and gender as “immutable human characteristics,” and don’t ask the local church to go against its beliefs to sanction your relationship. You are not the new minority. We are not the new racists. You are normal people with unusual pursuits, and it’s time you stopped trying to be more.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BJ65LLJI6OOKT7NR4SLMWO2XZA Dazee

    So wait… you’re saying that barren people (whether it be age or health related) shouldn’t be allowed to get married? I mean, that pairing wouldn’t be able to produce offspring and is therefore, by your idea of what marriage is, isn’t really a marriage. Or what about couples that never plan to have children? According to you, their marriage should be nixed as well. I mean, we wouldn’ t want couples who don’t add to the over-population problem that we’re facing around the world.. how selfish of them to not want to have children! I kind of am interested in knowing your opinion on those kinds of couples.. because they fall into the exact complaints you have about homosexual couples.

    I also want to know how people can say “It’s the same as marrying a dog.” How in the world is marrying another human being in anyway equivlant to marrying a dog or any other kind of animal, really? They can’t exchange and express love, ideas, or even communicate in the same way another human being can. A ‘marriage’ with an animal would be one sided. Not saying animals aren’t capable of love and communication but not on the same scale that another human is. So love alone is not enough of a reason to want to be with someone? To some people marriage is because you love the other person, you want to be with them and no one else AND that’s what the other person wants too. I’d like to think that’s what marriage is. That’s what it is to me, that’s why I’m with who I’m with. I would break off my current engagement if I found out he was ‘expecting’ me to have children as if it was some civic duty as a married couple and I better hold up my end of the bargin by spitting out a kid or two. If that’s not what you meant, it’s what you said.

    And ‘imaginary kids’ woah, really? Did you think about that before you wrote it. Are all adopted kids ‘imaginary kids’ or just the ones belonging to homosexual couples? Should I go to my grandmother and inform her. “You weren’t really Great-gran’s daugther.. just her ‘imaginary’ one since she didn’t actually birth you.” Or maybe I should go to my dad and tell him. “Well Grandma and Papoo don’t really count as your parents since they didn’t concive you, even though they raised you until you were three.”

    And it is a prejuidce that belongs side race and gender as these people are being JUDGED for what they are. They’re not asking for unique rights, they’re asking for rights that any other citizen has. And don’t give me this bull about it being a ‘choice’. That’s such a load of crock. If it was a choice, I’d be a lesbian, I find I get along with women better and, because of how guys treated me growing up, don’t find it easy like a lot of guys. But nope.. my body decided I like men. So I’m annoyingly attracted to them, even though I don’t like a lot of them. That just meant I had to hunt a little harder for one I wanted to be with. There’s only one thing I agreed with that you said “don’t ask the local church to go against its beliefs to sanction your relationship” now if only we could get those churches to stay out of our business (and I’m not just talking about gay marriage). I’ve stopped asking for acceptence, I’m just asking for tolerance.

  • AlmostLiterally

    Except that A: There is no such thing as ‘unnatural’ – it simply does not exist – and B: Dogs =/= Humans.

  • AlmostLiterally

    Except that A: There is no such thing as ‘unnatural’ – it simply does not exist – and B: Dogs =/= Humans.


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